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“God does notsend strange 'Bowers every

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When the spring winds blow o'er the

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The some dear things liit up the same

fair hoes,-

, ‘ The violet is here."

soft stirs and sunny *birds 'bank to their

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liove. who, from

/touches them again to col-

or, form and fragrance.

And, after the long w'lnter’s dearth of

bud and leaf amd -blossom, what joy in iinding “the same dear things” lifting up "the same fair faces" that have endeared them to'us through the years! Fond as we are of_change and much of it RS 0\1l‘ natures demand, there are nmny things of which-'we :never itire, and any eiiont to substitute' them in ouraiiections 'ls re- jected as sacrilege and imposition. Old flowers. old friends,.old spiritual kinships. become so woven dn -the very fHb\‘lC Of 0\\l` being as to form an inseparable and en- during part oi’ us, and when long Pnfled

l Gather Ye All

` Fragrant Flowers

Gather yo all fragrant nwers

. From the lap ot hal y sprlmz.

in the gladness of her hours _ Let your hearts ri-xlolce and sing.

Leave behind all vain regrets.

All your wisely anxious schemes.

Gather ye sweet violets

By the shores of laughing streams.

Let the lovely iblossoms teach

Lessons one can only 'learn

Where the swaying branches reach

Over beds oi. branching tern.

Where the crystal waters drill Downward to the mossy pool.

Let your -lnmost being aln

Fair nepenthe sweet and cool.

Where the tnneiul silence drifts ' ` Far away beyond the wold. , and the wud fswn my llfw

Precious cups of ‘beaten gold.

And the sweet arhutus trails \Perumed,~bloseoms bl' the Way.

While in yonder shady vnles

Merrlly the tnillinms sW1‘~Y.

L01 -the 1.;¥'¢1y .blossoms teach, _ln the shadow oi’_ the trees.

Lessons -that shall surely reach Love’s great immortullties.

Gather ye all fragrant flowers in the 'portal oi the woods.

Lei the music of the hours

Paciiy your restless moods.

Inova ‘behind the surly yesm. -All their failures and regrets.

., Lst,the fountain oi their tears . x ' "Q\`lidhm~`oornle violets. .., / _

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next to to serve. decslred even .his

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God is our

home. “~t.hat palace whence we came. Always .the human, heart wish. its “immortal cravings" is secretly listen- ing und waiting for divine news i`rom Home-some spiritual knfowlledge that is still reuiemibered, tha-1. its errings are tor- given and forgotten, that at welcome awaits its return. with an assurance that the sight of old. familiar faces. “lost

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EHSCGI. in the world ot nature and ln

the heart of man proclaims anew to ug year after year, the quench-less gospel or the lmperluhable. the immutable truth of 8 risen. living Lord and a. raptnrons awakening for all who in -this hop; have fallen asleep in Christ. "Why do you cry?" asked Stanley or Afrlcanrfame, seeing his Wife Woosilig at his bedside hetore the end and receiving no answer added: “Do you fear that_'we are parting?" Then alter W0'-llel' PHUSB. "We shall the together again."

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Men said, ’t\vas Death.. not Christ, died

yesternight,

.-\nd Truth and Trust, and nil things. vir-

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Rose when He rose."

-Christian Guardian

SPRING

awhile." will atone for nil the loneliness. ,mm voice of the Spirit

the sorrows, the difficulties and disup

pointmsntsdgg wie years' nike Mary’ I we . Hgh at?£'l¥l\l’(:)s0$t>x'rliii‘t= stand i n w th grief, and it sense ot’ _ _ ' utter human helplessness before the door 1.1;;"£{§w{;g;"m::lin;"Tr:;“Ile

-of the sepulchre. “Who shall roll us away tho,stono'."' And behold! already an open door. an empty tomb, an angel with n deathless message of cheer and comfort for every sorrowilng soul: "Why seek ye the llviiigonioiig the doail? He is not here, but is risen."

Here is indeed glad news from Home

to solace our stricken spirits and to il lumdne all the pathway between us and those who but for triumphant Love we must have sought sorrowing as verily “among -the dead.” “In Christ shall all be made alive." To tind our loved ones again after the winter of loss and :pain and sorrow in everlasting joy and periec-y tion of all those qualities that limit ue ln- diseoiwbly to them is now evermore our conddence, even as Inter the earthly win- ter oi dearth and silence “the same dear things” unfalilngly raise “the same fair- faces" to greet us and their god. _

“After the death winter it must fbe ‘ God will not 'put new signs ln heavenly

places.

The old love will look out from the old

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Veilchen, I shall have thee." ' I

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‘ Hath vnliislierl away,

_-ind plants. shrub mid flower,

Come forth to the dny.

All nature rejoices

From valley and h'lll,--

The gush oi' the fountain, The iiow oi' the rill,

The music oi’ waters

Fnsliackled and free, -Blond with echoing notes

And hum ofvthe ibee.

Field. forest and meadow.

The mountain aud_plaln. With new lite are teeming, And aid the glad etrarln,

To welcome the spirit

~ Oi the beauty and bloom, Who hath burst earth's fettcrs,

And scattered the gloom.

Awake ye in gladness.

Ye children of earth!

For itis God who ‘hath given This glorious new Ibirih; Shout for joy! for 1-le speaks,

And 'bids you oondde In that power and mercy That e‘er will abide.

EASTER DAY

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The people sing, the people pray,

The windows shine all holy»brlghi_

The lilies stand so cool and while,

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But ont beneath the laughing sun

The yellow chickles peep and run.

And common tiowers wink and dance

And iunny bunnies whisk and prancel

`i` _ The . arenotlgood like you. and me- I

Nobody ts.u8l1t -them how to he.

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