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Show Rezin A. Flower Maynard Sunday and Its Lessons 25 June 1899 THE CELEBRATION nature The flower general. more of festivals is becoming more and harvest time, and Easter season, recognition of the spring are annually observed by ever-growing numbers. It is good that it is so. We need to as a closer come be real, to be nature; need to learn from her what it is to simple, that is artificial in our to be obedient. There is truly lives that we almost forget to so to much discover care for, and leave out of our lives from sheer indifference much of the richest and best it might offer. All what we kinds of moral when really changes life, but man his life. may come we never can will not our industrial, social, and believe that a need communion with How true it is that world that had in not in some we never find time will come nature to enrich anything in the way been within us at first. Even is incomplete unless we have the religion our experience ability to find God everywhere. The sense of religion is incomplete unless it unites us to all the grand divinity in nature, and surely no argument which the philosopher can in urge is so convincing to the heart the flowers urge to prove the kindness of the Infinite Life. That teacher first 202 came the or educator of the voiceless arguments goodness and the loving as our modern inspiration for teaching days nature to whom studies in the primary and other of the lower grades in our schools ought to be hailed as a public benefactor. Poor indeed is that soul |
