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Flozuers and Festivals 



beautiful and good, and most prized among the works 

 of His hands, should be given back to Him. 



^^The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." 

 Flowers, then — the fairest remnants of the pristine 

 beauty of Paradise — should be especially offered in 

 the Church to Him who is the ^^Rose of Sharon and 

 the Lily of the Valley." 



The Rev. James S. Pollock, in his Httle tract upon 

 Ritual, says : — " We read in the Bible, that her temple 

 was adorned with canned ^palm trees, and open flowers, 

 within and without I' 



" And when our Blessed Lord triumphantly entered 

 Jerusalem, the people ' took branches of palm trees, 

 and went forth to meet Him^' We read also of 

 the ' great multitude, which no man could number,' 

 having ^ palms in their hands ^' Jesus loved flowers, 

 and all things beautiful ; He has told us to ^ consider 

 the lilies I' There the ^ young plants'' that are 



3 I Kings 29. ^ S. John xii. 13. 



5 Rev. vii. 9. ^ S. Matt. vi. 18. 



^ Ps. cxliv. 12. 



