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Do you ever meditate on those great truths Christianity teaches us ? 
The Prophet Jeremias says: “With desolation is all the land made 
desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart .” 
There is no one that thinks in his heart on what is the chief source 
of all our evils. The greatest part of men seldom or never think either 
of their first beginning or their last end. They neither consider who 
brought them into the world, nor for what; nor reflect on that Eternity 
into which they are just about to step. TIence, all their pursuits are earth¬ 
ly or temporal, as if they were made only for this life, or were to be always 
here. Death, Heaven , Judgment, make but little impression on them, be¬ 
cause they do not give these subjects a chance to sink deep into their souls 
by the means of serious Consideration. 
When from the city’s dust and heat, 
And ceaseless noise, they took her where 
The birds were singing on the trees, 
And flower-fragrance filled the air; 
And there, their leaf-crowned heads upraised 
To greet the pretty, gray-eyed lass, 
A million blossoms starred the road, 
And grew among the waving grass. 
“Why, here are daisies!” glad she cried, 
And, with hands clasped, sank on her knees. 
“Now, God be praised, who East and West, 
Scatters such lovely things as these. 
Around my mother’s cabin door 
In dear old Ireland they grow, 
With hearts of gold and slender leaves, 
As white as newly fallen snow.” 
Then up she sprang with smiling lips, 
Though on her cheek there lay a tear: 
“This land’s not half so strange,” she said, 
“Since I have found the daisies here.” 
— M-r-Ey tinge. 
