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beneficent planning which makes room for 

 even the smallest seed, of living plant or of 

 loving thought, and keeps safe and warm the 

 germ which aspires ! 



As with the year, so with man. As he 

 grows older his thoughts reach out to farther 

 horizons, and the love which once burned in 

 a single, central fire now broadens into a 

 flame that would gladly envelop the whole 

 world. He outgrows much, and into what 

 remains of the youth behind him he reads far 

 higher meanings as he advances toward the 

 youth that lies before him. He loved a flower 

 once now he grows into conscious relation 

 with the immeasurable truth, which is taught 

 nowhere else so clearly as in a garden, that 

 all he has had, all he has desired, of any 

 good is his. Not to touch, perhaps, or to 

 see, but to remember and to wait for, secure 

 in the faith that the Paradise which lies just 

 beyond Calvary needs every leaf and every 

 blossom that ever cheered the longing soul 

 on its pilgrimage thither. 



THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED. EDINBURGH. 



