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Consider the lilies of the field, 

 how they grow : they toil not, neither 

 do they spin : and yet i say unto you, 

 that even solomon in all his glory 

 was not arrayed like one of these. — 

 Matthew vi. 28, 29. 



Our Lord's direct object in this 

 lesson of the Lihes was to convince 

 the people of God's care for them. 

 Now, this clothing of the earth with 

 plants and flowers — at once so beau- 

 tiful and so useful, so essential to all 

 animal life — is one of the very ways 

 in which He takes care of his crea- 

 tures. And when Christ liimself di- 

 rects us to consider with attention the 

 plants around us, — to notice how 



