CHRIST the GRAIN of WHEAT: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain” (Jn 12:24). Who can tell how one faithful witness can bring in a bumper crop? And who ever heard of John Warr? He had been apprenticed to Clarke Nichols in the little village of Piddington to learn the cobbler’s trade. John was a serious believer who attended a nearby Dissenter’s Chapel. But one day another young man, William by name, joined as a second student at the cobbler’s shop. Sprinkled in the State Church, he felt confident he was bound for heaven if anyone was. But as the two young apprentices became friends, John pressed on William the need of personal salvation. Finally, William by faith joined John in the family of God. And William—William Carey—became “the father of the modern missionary movement.” Before he died in 1834, he had left a vigorous foothold for the gospel in the great land of India.