Voice ? I am sure that it is so, and perhaps that 



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tells us why we so oiten see the parson in his 

 garden. 



It is true that our love of the garden grows 

 as we grow in maturity and serenity of soul. 

 The garden has its ministries of hope and peace 

 for the troubled mind, and must not he, whose 

 purpose and work in life is to minister to the 

 troubled mind, himself have hope and serenity 

 of soul ? It is a fact witnessed by the soul of 

 man in all his history that there are such min- 

 istries of plant and flower, that there is a close 

 bond between nature and man, a bond that 

 makes those ministries real. 



That which mainly accounts for the charm 

 of the garden is, I think, the fact that the gar- 

 den is something apart. It is due to a true in- 

 stinct that the real lover of the garden refuses 

 to make it an open and public display, and 

 with wall or hedge closes it in and withdraws 

 it from the world's busy life. The garden is a 

 place to which the tired in body or mind may 

 come for calm and peace, and many souls have 



