WILD FLOWERS OF THE YEAR. 



In watching the progress of vegetation, as, 

 month by month, it expands before us, we are 

 struck with the rcgalarity with which the 

 flowers and fruits of earth visit us at their ap- 

 pointed times. More than five tliousand years 

 since, the promise of God was recorded, that 

 " while the earth remaineth, seed-time and har- 

 vest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, 

 and day and night, shall notecase,"* and every 

 season attests its fulfilment. They who mark 

 most closely the changes of nature, know best 

 how fully and faithfully God has kept his word. 

 As said the inspired psalmist, "Whoso is ^vise, 

 and will observe these things, even they shall 

 understand the lovingkindness of the Lord."f 

 Nature presents to us, even in the history ot 

 a simple blossom, some striking marks of God's 

 skill and goodness. The devout Fuller has told 

 us in what way we should look upon the flowers. 

 "A flower," says he, " is the best complexioned^ 

 grass, as a pearl is the best complexioncd clay; 



• Gen. viiL 22. t PsaJm cvu. 43. 



