!?0 TUF, DAISY. 



soms, wliich are destined as the months roll 

 on, to undergo a similar decay and renova- 

 tion. 



Tims are we instructed by the daisy, in 

 common with her kindred of wood or field, 

 to remember that one of the constituent 

 parts of both animal and vegetable bodies 

 remains unaltered, amid the changes and 

 decompositions which continually take place. 

 It follows, therefore, that though the pins 

 of the mortal tabernacle have been pulled 

 up, and the dust has returned to its kindred 

 earth, from one generation to another, yet 

 that the component parts are still unchanged, 

 ready to enter into a new and glorious com- 

 bination, whenever the fiat of Omnipotence 

 shall call them forth. Man may query in 

 his folly. How can the dead be raised up, 

 with what body do they come, when not a 

 trace of them remains ? To this there is 

 an answer, for the whole creation is filled 



