NATURE STUDY 
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF TPIE 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
You. II. May, 1902. No. 12. 
“ They That Are Pure in Spirit.” 
BY SUSY C. FOGG. 
Faith has kept us whole while the winter months have 
sped away and the Glacial Period, that seemed to return 
upon the earth and struggle for its old-time mastery, dis¬ 
solved in melting drifts and running brooks, and the pro¬ 
cession of wild flowers halted. But one day the buds 
pushed out on the arbor vitae and opened wide, the sturdy 
skunk cabbage, closely wrapped in his pointed hood, ap¬ 
peared in the lowlands, and the willow pussies crept out 
to sun themselves upon the twigs. 
There came another day, a wonderful Easter day, which 
brought a message to the maples and the willows, the al¬ 
ders, and all the little flowers, waiting with scattered 
ranks, to awake ; the great procession moves which shall 
gather glory and increase its hosts while the season of 
“ the passing show and the last leaf ” is yet afar off. And 
in obedience how the maples have reddened, the willows 
have grown golden, to the delight of swarms of bee lovers 
who danced attendance, and the mayhowers have fringed 
the sunken rocks in the old pastures. Many a cluster, 
