Judges 1:1–3:11 

"In this day of gathering storms, as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infection, it is essential that every spiritual force be mobilized to defend and preserve the religious base which has been the motivating impulse to our moral and national growth. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual re-awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." 
   –General Douglas MacArthur 

Judges 11:8-40 

The Song of the Sowers
We often sing the reaper's song
For joy in harvesting is found,
But I would sing the sower's praise–
'Tis he who tills the fallow ground.
You may have planted seeds of grace
In some unyielding, rugged earth,
Yet never see the ripening grain–
But He records the sower's worth.
Keep spreading wide His blessed Word
Where'er the Savior's will shall lead,
For reapers stand with empty hands
Without the one who sows the seed.
Oh bless the gospel sower, Lord,
And may Thy people come to know
There'd be no harvest of lost souls
Without the faithful ones who sow.
   –By Marion Rollins Guptill, a listener to Thru the Bible Radio