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COSSIDEK THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, 

 HOW THEY OKOW : THEY TOIL KOT, NEITHER 

 DO THEY SriN : AND YET I SAY UNTO YOU, 

 THAT EVEN SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLOKY 

 WAS NOT AKltAYKD LIKE O^K OF THESE. — 



Ihitthew vi. 28, 29. 



Our Lord's direct object in this 

 lesson of the Lihes 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 £0 useful, so essential to all 

 animal life — is one of the very ways /^ 

 in which He tal^es care of his crea- 

 tures. And when Christ himself di- 

 rects us to consider with attention the 

 plants around us, — to notice how 



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