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garden do better, and whilt flourishing one 

 season, at the same time see to it that their poor 

 life may have a chance of flaunting under the 

 blue skies and sunshine of another summer. 

 Sad indeed would autumn be if your death 

 took the place of Nature's change and sleep. 

 Every bud on the leafless trees, every seed and 

 root hiding in the snow-mantled earth, is a 

 icp roach to your narrow, earth-bounded life. 



Were your gardens any the less luxuriant, 

 beautiful, fruitful, last summer, because at the 

 same time they developed the means of continu- 

 ing so for all the future ? And why should it 

 take from the bloom of our lives, as we provide 

 for their blossoming in a happier clime ? 



Every purple-tipped strawberry runner, every 

 bud forming at the stem of the leaf, every 

 ripening seed, should teach us that it is God's 

 will that we should live and be happy in the 

 future as well as in the present. 



