BE OF GOOD CHEER.
COD’S LOVE-TOKENS. Methinks, if there were no other proofs in, the world of God’s goodness, the flowers would supply them in abundance. Answer it to thyself, poor soul, that doubtest of Ilis love, that darest not trust the voice in thine own heart telling thee that thy Father in Heaven is all which that heart can adore. Why has lie made these flowers? Why does He send to thee these little joys, as gentle and unnoticed often as a mother’s kiss upon a sleeping child? There is not, it would seem, a conceivable reason to he given for the existence of flowers (at least for their beauty and perfume) other than the intention to provide for a man a pure and most delicate pleasure. Geologists tell us that in the earlier epochs there are few traces of flowers, such as there were being small, and probably of the secondary colours, mere vessels for the ripening of the seeds. * -X- * * The ultimate use of all our life-plans is that they are the scaffolding by which we build up the soul into the likeness of the perfect Man. —E. P. Tenney.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1930, Page 1
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193BE OF GOOD CHEER. Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1930, Page 1
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