WILL YOU WALK INTO MY GARDEN? 19 



well as books, and if you have seen cherished 

 crops shrivel and wither as I have, you would 

 not be surprised that a few dead leaves mingle 

 with these. If these pages incite a few weary 

 brain-workers to that great duty in our hard- 

 driving American life healthful recreation ; if 

 to some hollow cheeks and still hollower pockets 

 of my beloved brethren of the country pastor- 

 ate, I can bring a greater fulness by alluring 

 them also into " a garden to dress it and to keep 

 it," I shall have plucked from my little shadow 

 of the lost Eden the choicest fruit of all. 



