ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATIONS. 



FOURTH ANNUAL FLOWER SERMON. 



BY THE RIGHT REVEREND THOMAS U. DUDLEY. 



And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the 

 cool of the day. — Genesis, iii ; 8. 



I am summoned 

 >ur busy streets. 



me that an aged man 



stranger to me, but whose beneficent 



has 



ful scroll, 



fragrant 



perfume of the spring-time, and bids me read the interpre- 

 tation thereof to the people of this city which he loved. 

 Day and night through long years his eyes did rest, with 

 ever new delight, upon this writing of mysterious beauty. 

 All time and thought and wealth he gave to provide 

 largest, fullest, plainest copies of the writing ; and men to 

 labor for their preservation, their perfection, their elucida- 



tion. 



lluminated 



text is most gorgeous in the sunshine of the May days, he 

 calls the preacher, not to explain the minute perfections of 

 each tiniest letter, or the significance of the slightest varia- 



expert 



aim 



handwriting, and what the message it was made to tell. 

 For this I am come, to bid you mark M the wisdom and 

 goodness of God as shown in the growth of flowers, fruit 

 and other products of the vegetable kingdom ; ' ' the glory 

 of God in the creation of " the green things of the earth." 

 This is the word I am come to speak, " Behold the glory of 



God 



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