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'ToIIE just shall spring as the lily. 77 
-A- This flower is very productive. One writer says : “No plant 
is more prolific than the lily, one root often producing as many as fifty 
bulbs. 77 
Precious lesson we have here, as to what should mark the children of 
•God! Some speak of the Eastern lily, that it has a tall stem, and grows 
upwards , seeking the blue heavens. The life of a; child of God is from 
Heaven, and its course should be ever upward and heavenward, while the 
fragrance thereof should exhale as the scent of the Eastern lily. 
Purity. 
“The Lilies say: Behold how we 
Preach, without words, of purity. 
— C. G. Bosetfi. 
We are Lilies fair, 
The flower of virgin light; 
Nature held us forth, and said: 
“Lo! my thoughts of white . 77 
—Leigh Hunt. 
“Flowers! When the Savior’s calm benignant eye 
Fell on your gentle beauty; when from you 
That universal lesson for all hearts lie drew, 
Eternal, universal as the sky; 
Then, in the bosom of your purity 
A voice He set as in a temple shrine, 
That life’s quick traveler ne’er might pass you by 
Unwarned of that sweet oracle divine. 
And though oft its low, celestial sound 
By the harsh notes of work-day care is drowned. 
And the loud steps of vain, unlistening haste, 
Yet the great ocean has no tone of power 
ATightier to reach the soul in thought’s hushed hour, 
Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen, thus and graced.” 
— Mrs. Hermans. 
