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oji SHALL commence with that fruit which comes earliest 

 )| and which nature thought fit to be the companion of the 

 rose. That so many liA^e without berries throughout the 

 year — that such multitudes raise coarse weeds when a few 

 hills of " Monarch of the West " strawberries would not take 

 half the room nor be half as exhaustive to the soil, is one .of the 

 proofs of our fallen nature. Are not those who look carefully 

 after their pork and potatoes but contemptuously ignore straw- 

 berries, totally depraved ? There are some men who would never 

 have been content in Eden until they had turned the better part 

 of it into a cabbage patch. Such people need physical ethereal- 

 izing by fruit diet that their grossness may be refined away. 

 Rest assured, in Millennial gardens the cabbage will not crowd 

 out the strawberry. 



There is another class whose seared consciences I would like 

 to touch. They believe in small fruits and know their value. 

 They enjoy them amazingly at a friend's table; they even buy 

 some when they are cheap, and may indulge in a forlorn weedy 

 strawberry bed. But as to putting forth a little intelligent 

 effort and supplying themselves abundantly — the time passes and 

 this is never done. Why ? I don't know. There are some who 

 seldom kiss their chihlren, read their Bibles, listen to the birds 

 or look at flowers, although they believe in all these things fully. 

 They simply jog on to-day as they did yesterday, ever vaguely 

 meaning at some time or other "to live up to their privileges." 



