“I am glad my little boy loves flowers,” he would say. “They are God’s beautiful presents to us. How sweetly Jesus speaks of flowers in Matthew vi, 28-30:
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.
“Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”
CHAPTER II
A CONTRAST TO THE FORMER CHAPTER.
* * * * * little children, endeavoring
to gather amusement from the very dust, and
straws and pebbles of squalid alleys, shut out
from the glorious countenance of nature.