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God and—leave the rest to Him! Reliance on God and self-reliance, a 
right intention and resoluteness of purpose 
“Will ope the way 
And win the day”— 
securing for them, at last, the accomplishment of their various undertak¬ 
ings, the achievement even of their full life-work—the task they were 
destined to perform—as with the perfect bloom of the Century Plant; and 
then, as holy Simeon, they shall contentedly exclaim: 
Nunc dimittis, Nomine !— 
“When the shore is won at last, 
Who will count the billows past ?” 
Success is always the sweeter if long delayed and attained through 
manifold struggles and defeats. 
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The Amaranth (Gomphrena perennis) is a 
plant about two feet high, with narrow, tapering 
leaves, and flowers similar in shape to those of the 
common red clover. They are crimson in color, and 
equally fadeless and durable as in the annual species. 
Because of this quality they have been the chosen 
emblem of 
Immortality. 
“God created man to His own image.”—Gen. i, 27. 
“And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth, and breathed into 
his face the breath of life , and man became a living soul.”—Gen. ii, 7. 
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miser¬ 
able.”—1 Cor. xv, 19. 
