EARTH'S GARMENT OF GREEN 13 



God has clothed the earth in a beautiful garment 

 of living green. It creeps up on the smooth, sloping 

 rocks in ferns and moss. It hangs down from the 

 tall, jagged rocks in ferns and vines. It lines the sides 

 of brooks and ponds with all sorts of plants and 

 bushes and pretty flowers. It even grows out into 

 the ponds and lakes as water plants and as the 

 beautiful white water lily, and in the ocean as 

 long fringes of seaweed. It pushes up the country 

 roads in shrubbery and flowers all intertwined with 

 grapevines. It spreads itself out on the earth in 

 woods and in grassy fields and in flower-bedecked 

 meadows. 



It is a garment of many patterns that God has 

 spread over the earth to clothe it. And every pat- 

 tern that makes up this wonderful garment is useful 

 as well as beautiful. How many of these different 

 patterns can you think of? 



Everywhere the green robe stretches out to cover 

 the bare earth and some useful or beautiful plant 

 grows upon almost every spot. You know how it is 

 when you make a garden. If you do not sow seeds 

 in the fresh earth, nature will. She has plenty of 

 seeds to sow where you do not sow yours, and some- 

 times her seeds come up just where you planted 

 yours. You are not always quite sure which of the 

 tiny plants grew up from your seeds and which grew 

 up from hers. If you leave the earth in your garden 

 uncared for, nature will take care of it for you and 

 cover it with growing things. That is God's law for 

 the earth. Nature sows her seeds broadcast, and 

 whenever there is a possible chance they come up. 



