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live that it may become to us a paradise. Even 

 if there is a better and greater, how shall we com- 

 prehend it if we cannot apprehend this ? Let us 

 learn to walk well in the paradise which we now 

 possess. Let us heed the great Teacher with 

 whose walks were interwoven lessons from the 

 fields, whose entire ministry was peripatetic. Let 

 no more Beloved Disciple lament, that " from that 

 time many of his disciples went back, and walked 

 no more with him." But rather, 



" He that saith he abideth in him ought himself 

 so to walk, even as he walked." 



" Even so we also should walk in newness of 

 life." 



Ever new. Ever a walker. The thought of the 

 walk spiritualizes the walk, and that kind of walk 

 spiritualizes the walker. 



And every nature-study teacher, every nature- 

 study pupil should be a walker. The ability to 

 walk, to get enjoyment from it as well as knowl- 

 edge from the things seen, is worth more to 

 teacher or pupil than to find out what is inside of 

 a caterpillar, or how many rings there are in the 

 abdomen of a dragon-fly. 



