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of hope will they carry a message Which the 

 ragged lad in his limited experience, and with his 

 probably still more limited education, probably 

 never dreamed of, and much less would think of 

 attempting to express. 



So, gentlemen, your greatest service to mankind 

 is in furnishing messengers where words are but 

 jarring noises. In that mysterious* book of Reve- 

 lation, speaking of that perfect land, are these 

 words : 'Was there the tree of Life . . . and the 

 leaves of the tree were for the healing of the 

 nations.' 



To you is given the priceless privilege in shar- 

 ing in a most marvelous way in the healing of 

 broken hearts on earth. When you prepare the 

 sprays or wreaths to be carried to those homes 

 of overwhelming sorrow, you are weaving into 

 those pieces that message of unspeakable comfort 

 that 'God shall wipe away all tears from their 

 eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sor- 

 row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 

 pain, for former things are passed away.' 



Thus in a very real way, you are sharing in 

 the lifting of men and women, from the depths of 

 despair and hopelessness, and leading their 

 thoughts to that never failing Comforter, and that 

 Man of Sorrow and Saviour of mankind of whom 

 it was said: 'I am the Rose of Sharon and the 

 Lily of the Valley.' 



