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"better and higher than this when He tells us to " consider the 

 lilies of the field." If, with hearts open to instruction, we 

 *' consider how they grow," they will read to us the same lesson 

 which the little moss in the desert read to the African traveller, 

 they •will irresistibly carry our thoughts up to Him, who not 

 only " clotheth the grass of the field," but " giveth to all — life, 

 and breath, and all things," — and who, if we commit ourselves to 

 His keeping, will not suffer a " hair of our heads to perish." 



