The Garden 

 that We Made 



All these allotment gardens have surely given much 

 pleasure to thousands of grown-up people and children. 

 And not only joy but also profit. Think what the children 

 can learn from such a plot ! And how happy are the hours 

 they spend beneath God's open sky. I always look with 

 great interest upon the pretty attractive little spots when- 

 ever I pass any. The people always seem so happy 

 working there — the plots look so neat and so flourishing. 

 Surely there are many there who have learnt to understand 

 and to reverence the glory and joy of gardening through 

 tending an allotment. 



It is written, " Consider the lilies how they grow ; they 

 toil not neither do they spin. And I say unto you that 

 Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." 

 One of the lessons which men and women should try to 

 teach the little ones is this : That nothing made by human 

 hands can be at all compared with the wonder and beauty 

 of God's flowers. And also that these, the Lord's own 

 handiwork, have been given to us for a joy and for an 

 ornament. They are within the reach of practically all of 

 us, for at least we can have some flower-pots in our 

 windows even if we have no plot of ground of our own ; 

 and we only have to sacrifice a little time each day to tend 

 the window plants with loving hands. 



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