The Statue of Liberty. New Jersey. The Trojan Horse. All of them gifts. But is any one of them the greatest?
New Jersey. Drought-resistant wheat seeds. The Trojan Horse. The World Wide Web. Human freedom. Penicillin. A green bike. Jesus Christ.
What do the items in this list, as diverse as they are, have in common?
All are gifts.
Maybe the greatest gifts in history.
New Jersey was given as a present in 1665 by the Duke of York to two royalists, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley. Fortunately, the territory did not remain in their hands; it reverted to the English crown in 1702, and later became part of the United States. If the land had not been returned, the descendents of Carteret and Berkeley would now be in control of nearly nine million people and a half-trillion-dollar economy. Not to mention Princeton University, the New York Giants, the New Jersey Turnpike and Chris Christie.
Another great gift was much smaller, but was equally significant. A man named Norman Borlaug developed tiny wheat seeds that were resistant to drought and disease (see "Hope in a Seed," Homiletics, June 14, 2015). ...
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