FOREWORD 



FOREWORD 



I VERY gladly write a word in welcome to and in 

 commendation of this little book. Its peculiar 

 value I think will be found in the fact that 

 it not only reports an experience and asks 

 for sympathy, but also speaks a message and 

 arrests attention. Its appeal lies not only to 

 every garden lover, but equally to all the gar- 

 den-less. The parson in his garden, in the cool 

 of the day, thinks much of and cares much for 

 the man in the street, in the city's dust and 

 heat. His book is an invitation, sent forth 

 with so much winning grace and so much lov- 

 ing wisdom that many will heed it if they will 

 but read. 



It must be true, if our faith in Christ is true, 

 that the only cure of every human ill is spirit- 

 ual. Poverty, suffering, disease, however cruel 



