SOUKCE OF ALL BEAUTY. 



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the insect yet more richly than the lily. But, above all, let 

 us notice that in the forms of nature, whether of flower or of 

 insect, those are always the most beautifully coloured whose 

 wearers are most exposed to the light and joy most to sport 

 in sunshine ; and let us read herein that all the moral beau- 

 ties we would seek, all the celestial hues which should give 

 tone and colour to our varying thoughts, must have their 

 source in Him of whom the sun natural is but an emanation 

 and a type in that glorious Sun of the world spiritual, from 

 which if we turn away, our soul's best emblem is the darkling, 

 sickly plant, colourless for want of light, or the earth-buried 

 grub, livid and loathsome from absence of its rays. 



our trnmperji daubing ! 



