FOURTH ANNUAL FLOWER SERMON. 37 



plant, and die believing that they had been deceived who 

 had reported its flower in a year long before his guardian- 

 ship began. We know not the day nor the hour when the 

 general resurrection shall be; when all who are in their 

 graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come 

 forth ; but once we know, yes, we know, the grave hath 

 given up its dead. If this be not established by human 

 testimony, then can nothing be. And the voice of the 

 Lord God in the garden to-day declares so it shall be with 

 all men. The laws of the universe demand it. But when, 

 ah, when, none knoweth. The corn of wheat fallethinto 

 the ground and dies, but by and by, when the appointed 

 period is accomplished, when the blade and the ear of pre- 

 paration have been fulfilled, after that the full corn in the 

 ear, the life full, perfect, complete ! 



O men, hearken unto the voice of the Lord God in the 

 garden — " Verily the invisible things of Him from the 

 creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by 

 the things that are made, even His eternal power and 



Godhead." 



O men, are ye not without excuse, thus knowing God, if 

 ye glorify Him not as God and are not thankful ? 



Amen. 



