In this book you will not find the stories of all God's saints. I have gathered a few together, just as one gathers a little posy from a garden full of roses. But the stories I have chosen to tell are those that I hope children will love best to hear.
Let us remember that God has given to all of us, little children as well as grown-up people, a place in His garden here on earth, and He would have us take these white flowers, the lives of His saints, as a pattern for our own. We may not be set where all can see us; our place in God's garden may be a very humble and sheltered spot; but, like the saints, we may keep our faces ever turned upward, and learn to grow, as they grew, like their Master, pure and straight and strong—fit flowers to blossom in the Garden of God.
'Saints are like roses when they flush rarest,
Saints are like lilies when they bloom fairest,
Saints are like violets, sweetest of their kind.'
LIST OF STORIES
| PAGE | |
| SAINT URSULA, | [1] |
| SAINT BENEDICT, | [16] |
| SAINT CHRISTOPHER, | [29] |
| SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, | [41] |
| SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, | [54] |
| SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, | [62] |
| SAINT CECILIA, | [71] |
| SAINT GILES, | [79] |
| SAINT NICHOLAS, | [84] |
| SAINT FAITH, | [97] |
| SAINT COSMO AND SAINT DAMIAN, | [102] |
| SAINT MARTIN, | [110] |
| SAINT GEORGE, | [119] |
| SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, | [128] |