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tents of the Israelites, in their arrangement, to a 

 'field which the Lord had blessed,' prosperous 

 in its full sense characterized by success, with 

 hopes fulfilled, thriving, flourishing glowing with 

 all the flowers which He made, and left to us 

 as emblems of Himself, reflecting His perfections, 

 as mementoes to tend and cherish and to imitate 

 in setting forth His glory. Such treasures ! They 

 have life ; we can learn of them ; we can see their 

 character coming out from the heart of the bulb ; 

 we can bring up our children by them : first the 

 blade, then the ear, that the full corn in the 

 ear may glorify Him. Alas ! our rising generation 

 (who should have been grounded in the faith on 

 the true foundation) go out into the world with 

 their heads stuffed with secular education in the 

 State schools, many of them convinced that the 

 Bible is an out-of-date old book, and they boast 

 of their up-to-date, vain, new-fangled ways ! A 

 Gourd climbed up a Palm and said : ' How old 

 are you ?' ' One hundred years,' said the Palm. 

 'Then I have out-topped you in one single 

 season,' said the Gourd contemptuously. Replied 

 the Palm : ' You will do more than that in one 

 season you will die.' 



