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Building Name: New City Presbyterian Church (formerly Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church)Studio Name: Willet Hauser Architectural Glass
City: Ferndale
Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)
Date of Window: 1964
Subject/Title of Window: The Parable of the Sower
Brief Description of Subject: This epistle side window consists of three medallions separated by geometric and floral decorations.Each medallion illuminates a scene from the Parable of the Sower. The parable is covered in Matthew 13:1 - 6. In addition, Christ gave a full explanation of this parable in Matthew 13:18 - 23. All quotes from the NKJV Bible.
Middle Medallion: "Behold, a sower went out to sow." The seeds are the word of the kingdom.
Top Medallion: "Some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them." This is the one who "hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in the heart." And "Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away." And "This is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no roots in himself, but endures it for only a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately stumbles." And "Some fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them." And "He who received seed among thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfaithful."
Bottom Medallion: Some fell "on good ground and yielded a crop: some hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty." And "this is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit."
Lexan protection for this window was installed in 1987 by the Continental Glass Company of Minnesota.
Condition of Window: good
Height: 10'
Width: 1'6"
Type of Glass and Technique: Antique or Cathedral Glass, Slab or Faceted Glass (Dalle de Verre)
The Parable of the Sower
Behold, a sower went out to sow.
Some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
Some fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.
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