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RAMBLES IN SEARCH OF FERNS. 
the rocks ! Surely each little fern teaches us a lesson of reliance upon 
God, and puts to shame the unbelief of anxious alarmists. As Martin 
Tupper so plainly points out : 
“ Yet man, heedless of a God, counteth up vain reckonings, 
Fearing to be jostled and starved out by the too prolific increase of his kind ; 
And asketh, in unbelieving dread, for how few years to come 
Will the black cellars of the world yield unto him fuel for his winter. 
Fear not, son of man, for thyself nor thy seed : — with a multitude is plenty : 
God's blessing giveth increase, and with it larger than enough.” 
