As they speak to us of His beauty, so they manifest His love. 
“ God added the flowers over and above,” it has been beautifully 
said, “ when He had formed alj things for our use, just to show 
“us how much He loved us.” It is no bare, dull world in 
which He has placed us, but one in which we are surrounded 
on all sides with proofs of His loving care. And hence, it is not 
strange that flowers have ever been associated with the tenderest 
feelings of the heart. So delicate in tint, so varied and beautiful 
in form, it seems only fitting that many of them should have 
been chosen to convey the language of affection. 
The same loving God who gave them to us, and who Himself 
“is Love,” has given to His children as His highest gift the 
capacity of Love. “ Love is of God, and every one that loveth 
“ is born of God, and knoweth God.” “ By this shall all men 
“ know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.” 
And thus the old familiar language of the flowers may be 
translated into a higher and more divine language, and may tell 
us the story of the love of God with all its kindred lessons. 
The Snowdrop, so dearly loved in the early spring-time, may 
speak to us of Hope and of Purity, and be the fitting emblem to 
remind us that “every one that hath this hope in him purifieth 
“ himself even as He is pure.” “ The violet by a mossy stone, 
“half hidden from the eye,” may teach us the sweetness and 
preciousness of Humility, as seen in Christ, and cultivated in 
His true followers. The Forget-me-not may remind us of Him 
who has promised never to leave us or forsake us ; and the lovely 
Rose, so dear to all, may tell us of His unfailing Love. Thus 
we shall learn more and more to “look through Nature up to 
“ Nature’s God,” and ever cull afresh from the pages of God’s 
Green Book the lessons of His Inspired Word. 
