The Garden 
that We Mado 
All these allotment gardens have surely given much 
pleasure to thousands of grown-up people and children. 
And not only joy but also profit. Think what the children 
can learn from such a plot ! And how happy are the hours 
they spend beneath God’s open sky. I always look with 
great interest upon the pretty attractive little spots when- 
ever I pass any. The people always seem so happy 
working there — the plots look so neat and so flourishing. 
Surely there are many there who have learnt to understand 
and to reverence the glory and joy of gardening through 
tending an allotment. 
It is written, “ Consider the lilies how they grow ; they 
toil not neither do they spin. And I say unto you that 
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” 
One of the lessons which men and women should try to 
teach the little ones is this : That nothing made by human 
hands can be at all compared with the wonder and beauty 
of God’s flowers. And also that these, the Lord’s own 
handiwork, have been given to us for a joy and for an 
ornament. T hey are within the reach of practically all of 
us, for at least we can have some flower-pots inf -our 
windows even if we have no plot of ground of our own ; 
and we only have to sacrifice a little time each day to tend 
the window plants with loving hands. 
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