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Consider the lilies of the field, 

 how they grow : they toil noty neither 

 do they spin : and yet i say unto you, 

 that even solomon in all his glory 

 ■was not arrayed like one of these. — 

 Matthew vi. 28. 29. 



Our Lord's direct object in this 

 lesson of the Lilies was to convince 

 the people of God's care for them. 

 Now, this clothing of the earth with W 

 plants and flowers — at once no beau- \j 

 tiful and so useful, so essential to all | 

 animal life — is one of the very ways ^ 

 in which He takes care of his crea- 

 tures. And when Christ himself di- 

 rects us to consider with attention the 

 plants around us, — to notice how 



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