NOTES. 



ploys her creative powers to revive the sense of such ua- 

 parallcled love, and prompt my gratitude to so divine a 

 Mend. 



" That spiral tendril, arising from the bottom of the 

 stalk, is it a representation of the scourge which inflicted 

 those stripes by which our souls are healed 1 or is it twisted 

 for the cord which bound His hands — those beneficent hands 

 which were continually stretched out to unloose the heavy 

 burdens, and to impart the highest blessings ? Behold the 

 nails (the stamens) which riveted His feet to the accursed 

 tree — those feet which always went about doing good, and 

 travelled far and near to spread the ' glad tidings of great 

 joy ".' See the hammer, ponderous and massy, (the pistil,) 

 which drove the iron into the flesh. View the crown of 

 thorns which encircled our Saviour's brow ; and beyond, 

 observe the glory, delineated in double rays, rich with 

 ethereal blue. There stand the disciples, (the petak, I pre- 

 sume.) ranged in the green impalement, and forming a circle 

 round the instruments of their great Master's death. 



" While others appoint this type of ' the righteous Branch, 

 the Plant of renown,' a place in the parterre, I would trans- 

 plant the Passion-flower, or rather transfer its sacred signifi- Jl 

 cancy to my heart. That I also may wear the traces of | 

 Immanuel, pierced for my sins, and bruised for my trans- ^ [ 

 gressions ; that I also may be ' crucified with Christ,' at S 

 least in penitential sorrow ; that I may ' know the fellow- 

 ship of His sufierings.' " — Herveu's Reflection on a Flower- 

 garden. 



• Isaiah lii. 7. 



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