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through the summer months preaches eloquent sermons on this 

 subject to pupils returning in the fall. It is not difficult to lead 

 pupils to see that the mind is a garden in which "whatsoever 

 a man soweth that shall he also reap," in which noble thoughts 

 and deeds are the flowers and the vegetables, while ignoble 

 thoughts and acts are the weeds and other destructive agencies 

 which intrude themselves into our gardens to mar and to crowd 

 out the things which are useful. Every one who plants a seed and 

 looks forward to a harvest learns a lesson of hope and faith in the 



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future, without which all work becomes drudgery and all real life 

 unbearable. The springing of the plant from the seed hidden 

 away in the soil makes concrete the fact that to lose one's life in 

 service for others is the only way to find it again unto life eter- 

 nal. The chr\'salis of the butterfly teaches clearly and strikingly, 

 where words are dumb, the facts of the immortality of the soul, 

 and the hatching of the insect egg the fact of the resurrection. 

 Last of all and crowning all of the incidental lessons taught by 

 the garden is this, that the garden may and does become to many, 

 the one spot in nature where the soul is lifted to its Maker. 



"A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot ! 

 Rose plot. 

 Fringed pool, 

 Ferned grot, — 

 The veriest school of peace. 

 And yet the fool contends 

 That God is not! 

 What? Not God! In gardens! 

 When the eve is cool I 

 Yea, but I have a sign, 

 'Tis very sure God walks in mine." 



