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lovely purple of the Com-cockle, win more attention 
than the unvaried tint of the wheat. “ Both grow 
together till the harvest ; ” but then the heauty of 
the gay blossoms perishes, and no one careth for 
them, whilst the corn is carefully garnered. Behold 
a type of the world ! The splendour of pomp, the 
flash of wit, and the fascination of genius, attract the 
notice and admiration of ail. But what avail these 
brilliant possessions in death? They only who hâve 
borne good fruit will the Lord “ gather into life 
eternal.” 
The rapid increase of wheat is well worthy our 
attention ; and on this subject I cannot do better than 
quote our early botanist, whose remarks accord with 
the spirit in which I would wish to view it. 
# “ It is observable, and not to be commemorated 
withoîit acknowledgment of the Divine benignity to 
us, that (as Pliny rightly notes) nothing is more 
fruitful than wheat, ‘ which fertility nature (he should 
hâve said the Author of nature) hath conferred upon 
it because it feeds man chiefly with it.’ If Pliny, a 
heathen, could make this fertility of wheat argumen- 
Ray on the Création. 
