LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
“ The gentle flowers 
Retired, and stooping o’er the wilderness, 
Talked of humility, and peace, and love.” 
Robert Pollok. 
Over what barren spot is it, reader, that the 
<< gentle flowers” shed, with most effect, their 
sanctifying influence ? Is it not over that moral 
“ wilderness,” the heart of man, that they 
stoop,” and “ talk of humility, and peace and 
love,” till the stony places become fruitful, and 
produce abundantly, good thoughts, pure wishes, 
and holy desires and aspirations; till the sterile 
waste changes to a garden ? It is, and none 
that have ever truly listened to their eloquent i 
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