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WILD FLOWERS. 



King David engaged 

 in playing on his bell 

 instrument. The thing 

 is in itself perfectly 

 immaterial ; but every 

 untrue teaching, how- 

 ever apparently tri- 

 vial, becomes of im- 

 portance when in any 

 way connected with 

 the subject of religion ; 

 and we must remem- 

 ber that the scoffer is 

 often furnished with 

 matter for his unseem- 

 ly mirth the doubter 

 oftener sunk into the 

 hopelessness of that 

 despair which dares 

 not press forward be- 

 cause on all sides the 

 ground appears to 

 sink from beneath his 

 feet by the errors 

 of those who in feel- 

 ing, though not in 

 judgment, are the real 

 friends of Christian- 

 ity, but who are, un- 

 happily, so little im- 

 bued with the purity 

 of its spirit as to fear 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. Convalldria majalis. 



