232 PREPARING FOR WINTER QUARTERS. 



While flourishing, blooming, fruiting, and 

 having a good time generally in the summer 

 sunshine, every plant in this garden, every 

 shrub and tree on lawn or in grove, has at the 

 same time been providing that it may live 

 again. All the strength has not gone into one 

 summer's growth. All the richness of ground 

 and sap has not been expended in making a 

 show for one brief season. In some wise, 

 successful way, they have all the time been 

 carrying forward the vital principle, that it 

 might again be established under new and if 

 possible more favorable auspices. 



Shame on you, therefore, men and women of 

 the world, who expend your whole strength on 

 the passing hour on this first stage of the 

 journey, this first crude phase of life, with no 

 thought or provision for what IL coming. Is 

 this all your boasted reason your high en- 

 dowment does for you ? Even the weeds of my 



