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]/ Consider the lilies of the field, 
I HOW THEY GROW : THEY TOIL NOT, NEITHER 
/r\ DO THEY SPIN : AND YET I SAY UNTO YOU, 
/ ' THAT EVEN SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY 
WAS NOT ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE.— 
Matthew vi. 28, 29. 
^ Our Lord’s direct object in tliis 
lesson of the Lilies was to convince 
the people of God’s care for them. 
j) Now, this clothing of the earth with 
plants and flowers — at once so beau¬ 
tiful and so useful, so essential to all 
ft animal life — is one of the very ways 
^ ~ in which He take^ care of his crea- 
/p tures. And when Christ himself di- 
dQi rects us to consider with attention the 
^ plants around us, — to notice how 
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