WITHERED LEAVES 
Past pleasures. 
O that I were as in months past, 
as in the days when God preserved 
me ; when His candle shined upon 
my head. Job xxix. 2, 3. 
WOLF’S-BANE 
see Monk's-Hood 
WOODBINE see Honeysuckle 
WORMWOOD 
(Artemisia absinthium) 
Absence. 
Knowing that, whilst we are at 
home in the body, we are absent 
from the Lord. a Corinthians v. 6. 
WYCH-HAZEL 
(Hamametis virginica) 
Power unto salvation. 
The gospel of Christ ... is 
the power of God unto salvation to 
every one that believeth. 
Romans i. 16. 
XERANTHEMUM 
see Everlasting 
YEW (Ta xus baccata) 
Sorrow. 
He will swallow up death in 
victory; and the Lord God will wipe 
away tears from off all faces ; and 
the rebuke of Ilis people shall He 
take away from off all the earth : 
for the Lord hath spoken it. 
Isaiah xxv. 8. 
ZINNIA (Zinnia elegans) 
Thoughts of Absent Friends. 
I have remembrance of thee in 
my prayers night and day ; greatly 
desiring to see thee, being mindful 
of thy tears, that I may be filled 
with joy. 2 Timothy i. 3, 4. 
The Lord watch between me and 
thee, when we are absent one from 
another. Gen. xxxi. 49. 
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