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tional picture he gives of himself, that he used in 

 early life to go thus to church, smelling a Pond Lily, 

 " its odor contrasting with and atoning for that of 

 the sermon." He associated this universal bearing 

 of the Lily with a very natural act, that of the first 



spring swim and 

 bath, and pictured 

 with delight the 

 quiet Sabbath still- 

 ness and the pure 

 openingflowers. He 

 said the flower had 

 become typical to 

 him equally of a 

 Sunday morning 

 swim and of church- 

 going. He adds 

 that the young wo- 

 men carried on this 

 floral Sunday, as a 

 companion flower, 

 their first Rose. 



This Sabbath 

 bearing of the early 

 Water Lilies may 

 have been a local 

 custom ; a few miles 

 from Walden Pond and Concord an old kinsman of 

 mine throughout his long life (which closed twenty 

 years ago) carried Water Lilies on summer Sundays to 

 church; and starting with neighborly intent a short 

 time before the usual hour of church service, he 



Bronze Sun-dial on Dutch Reformed Church, 

 West End Avenue, New York. 



