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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Raise your hand, hold up a leaf in the other, placing the leaf 

 beside the open hand. As you gaze upon the structure of the 

 hand you may possibly think of the old scripture, "I am fearfully 

 and wonderfully made." Can anything less be said of the leaf? 

 Your hand has locomotion ; the leaf has not. Does that argue 

 anything against the wonders of the creation of the leaf? "But 

 man is an intelligent being." ome are; some are not. (Cer- 

 tainly the "Tree butcher" and "Grape-vine fool" are not). Ad- 

 mitting, however, that man in general has some intellect, what 

 has that to do with his being "fearfully and wonderfullv made?" 

 An idiot may have a better formed body (excepting the brain) 

 than the president of a college. 



You eat bread, meats, butter, fruits, vegetables, etc. Can 

 you tell anything how some quiet, effectual and intelligent 

 agency separates the substances into bone, muscles, finger-nails, 

 hair and all the other parts of the body? Alan knows absolutely 

 nothing of how it is done. Now pick up a germinating elm 



Photo 104 

 The Abode of Poverty. 



