THE BLOSSOMING PLANTS 25 



there are so many different shapes in flowers. Does 

 it seem strange to you that flowers and bees should be 

 such friends? They work together not only for the 

 good of themselves but for the good of the world. 



They tell us that ages and ages ago the flowers 

 were all small and all green and that there were no 

 large beautifully colored blossoms at all. But since 

 the bees have been working upon them, the flowers 

 have grown larger and larger and more and more 

 beautifully colored. 



In a fairy story we might read that a fairy touched 

 the little green blossoms, one by one, with her wand 

 and turned them into beautiful flowers of all colors. 

 But this we are telling is a true story. The bees have 

 been the fakies, and their tongues and furry bodies 

 have been the wands that have transformed the green 

 blossoms of so long ago into the lovely flowers we have 

 to-day, with their varied shapes and colors. It has 

 taken a long, long time to do this, so much longer 

 than you can ever dream. 



But isn't it quite as wonderful as a fairy story? 

 Isn't it even more wonderful? Doesn't it show^ that 

 God is watching over everything with most loving 

 care? If He watches over the flowers, intending that 

 they shall grow more and more beautiful and uses the 

 little bees to help Him, wiU He not watch over all of 

 you. His children, and help you all? The whole 

 world is in God's keeping and nothing that He creates 

 is too mean or small for His care. 



