CHAPTER III. 



OUT OF DOORS. 



This out of doors love was born in me, and 

 what harvests of joy it brings. Some people 

 do not well know that God is out of doors, out 

 where the wild flowers struggle and thrive, out 

 where the desert keeps tryst with bewitching 

 moonlight, where clouds settle on great moun- 

 tains and pour floods down their rough sides, 

 where the sweet eglantine blooms and the 

 fringed gentian nestles, and where the squirrels 

 gather their nuts and chatter their scolds ; sure- 

 ly the great wide out of doors is His and He 

 made it and watches it, ever haunting it as 

 jjesus did the mountains and the sea. Yes, I 

 will see all of this for He made it and pro- 

 nounced it very good ; yes, and I'll find Him in 

 His out of doors world and walk with Him and 

 learn of His wisdom. Life and nature are as 

 books whose best pages are yet uncut. Who 

 knows what is hidden away out yonder under 

 the great open sky? So much to see, so little 

 seen and less known, so many summers gone to 

 waste and we impoverished. The limitations 

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