12 BOTANY FOR BEGINNERS. [Ch. II. 



13. 6th. It leads us to love and reverence God. Flowers 

 are presents which our heavenly Father gives us. It is there 

 fore proper that we should examine and study them. We see 

 that He who made them must be wiser and more powerful than 

 the greatest of men for what man could make the least plant ? 

 We can imitate flowers in wax and various other ways, but who 



an give them life ? 



None can the life of plant or insect give 

 Save God alone . 



14. Flowers may be considered as tokens of God's love to 

 us ; " If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, 

 and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much rathe' 

 clothe us ?" He 



Scorns not the least of all His works ; much less 

 Man, made in His image, destined t' exist, 

 When e'en yon brilliant worlds shall cease to be. 

 Then how should man, rejoicing in his God, 

 Delight in His perfections, shadow'd forth 



In ev'ry little flow'r and blade of grass ! 



Each op'ning bud, and care perfected seed, 

 Is as a page where we may read of God. 



CHAPTER II. 



Division of the Sciences. Different parts of flowers. Im 

 parlance of Botanical arrangement. 



15. WE are now about to commence our new study. There 

 are many sciences to be learned by those who wish to be wise ; 

 but yet all things which exist in the whole universe may be 

 classed under two heads, mind, and matter. 



16. Mind or spirit cannot be seen by us, although it exists in 

 all rational beings, and is that within us which thinks and 

 feels. 



17. God is a spirit ; he is not like us confined to any body, or 

 portion of matter, but as the sun's rays spread abroad over the 

 earth, so the presence of God extends to every part of his crea- 



13. What advantages are mentioned sixthly as connected with the 

 *tudy t)f Botany 1 



14. How may flowers be considered 1 



15. Under what two heads may all things which exist be classed? 



16. What is observed of mind or spirit 7 ? 



