CHAPTER II. 
THE TREE GERM. 
“ OTHING in Nature is more won- 
, erful than the relation which 
exists between the most magni- 
ficent growths of the woodlands 
and the tiny seeds from which they 
take their origin. It is not owing 
to adventitious circumstances, due to 
isolated though persistent exercises of 
creative power, that the small seed in time 
becomes a mighty Tree. The vital principle of 
the Tree is embodied in the seed. The Almighty 
power has been exercised once in the endowment 
of the germ with its marvellous power of de- 
velopment. All else—all that follows—is but 
the setting im motion of an _ organization 
