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cate filling-up, such a perfect correspondence, that 

 the more we study it, the fuller will be our appre- 

 ciation of that expressive promise to the church, 

 " Thou shalt be like a watered garden." 



Watered by the soft dews and cooling rain of 

 spring, we have seen the plants arise from their 

 lark chambers, and shake off the dust, and unfold 

 heir bright bosoms to the sun. Always to the 

 •un. Called into existence by his vivifying power, 

 md ripened in its pod by his steady rays, the seed, 

 n its earliest state and most shrouded form, was 

 "altogether his work. It never would have been, 

 rsdependent of his influence, and under that influ- 

 ence H was preserved, until, having been placed 

 where, it should become fruitful, the germinating 

 procesa had brought it forth into open day — no 

 longer & seed, but a plant. And when its beauti- 

 ful gam. ents are put on, when it stands so clothed 

 that Soivmon in all his glory could not compare 

 with it, rhat does the flower, in this watered gar- 

 den ? It turns to him whose creative power and 

 preserving care have led it to its new state of 

 being — it turns to bask in the full glow of trans- 

 forming love ; it looks upward ; and upward it 

 sends that rich fragrance which never dwelt in the 

 original seed, or in the mass of polluted earth 

 where its first habitation was fixed ; a fragrance 

 that belongs* only to its expanded slate. Thomson 

 has very elegantly expressed this : 



