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Consider the lilies .of the field, 

 how they grow : they toil not, neither 

 do they spin : and yet i say unto you, 

 that even solomon in all his glory 

 was not arrayed like one of these. — 

 Matthew ¥i. 28, 29. 



Our Lord's direct object in this 

 lesson of the Lilies was to convince 

 the people of God's care for them. 

 Now, this clothing of the earth with 

 plants and flowers — - at once so beau- 

 tiful and so useful, so essential to all 

 animal life — is one of the very ways /\| 

 in which He takes care of his crea- ILy 

 tures. And when Christ himself di- > V 

 rects us to consider with attention the * "■ 

 plants around us, — to notice how 



