Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01
III isrrilanroas.
From the In DEPENDENT, August g.
EgSONS TO BE LEARNED IN A GARDEN
BY HARRIET Btrcurs srowz.

ns,tlelrt marriage portion tnan 10 pluht n Bur-l
den for them. aud give it to them to till and dress
II.
II is 10 be noted, also. the Great Father did not
give man and woman Il garden ready tlled-ior
ondlw them with an angelic gardener whose I
superior care should do all the thinking and la 7
boring Cor them. and leave them nothing to do hut =
hut walk admiring up and Gown its alleys. but he :
gave them q garden to till and to dress for them |
solves .tstv ty
Out of the ground grow.morc things than fruits
and A~owors-thero grow holy thoughts and pure I
desires, and gentle leelings-and that tree OF life
and healing which the Father planted in the first
garden hath left rootsand suckers in tho soil OF
all gardens that ever man cultivated or shall culti- {
vate.
lilo alone otoas a garden, in any true sense OF
the word, who plans and oultivates himsel(-whose
own labor and thought enters into the growth of
it. The jaded millionaire! who having heard uf Il
garden as a trapping Of wealth, and a judicious
Investment of burdeusome thousands, commissions
some poor smith or Jones to lay out and plant and
tend one for him, he ia not in any blessed sense
the owner OF it. 1t is tho Smith or Jones who
reaps all the pleasure and benefit 1t il he whom
each fiir.growing shrub and tender flower. if it
could speak, would with one vice proclaim its
true master -ior while the millionaire walks it's
paths ignnraitiy, and krows nothing OF tho why
and wherefore oi all Its bloom. hs gardener can
toll you the history Of each, from its eeed or slip
unto Maturity.
But he owns = garden who truly loves II and
identities himself with 1t. Every tree he has
watched in It's progress from It's hrstbud to its last
shoot-each Hover from seed to bloom. 10 HIM
every plant has its history, and a part of his own
history, a portion OF his own lilo has grown up
into 1t and with 1t. lie remembers when this was
a twig and that's seed. Here is one which he bore
away triumphantly from some forest OF swamp,
and despite its savage preferences, tanned and do.
mosticatod to ms garden band. The othor he read
of in a catalogue, and sent hundreds Of miles for
get IL apparently a ary suck, aespairea OF ita
hundred times yet by Incredible nursing and
management brought hrst to growth and then to
bloom. HeIo is something which came into his
hands as a slip in n bouquet, or a chance seed
gathered .by the %wayside. and which by such care
as true love can bestow has come TO vigorous ma
turlty.
a garden is a place OF healing to the soul. I'll
would seem as Ii from the growth OF leaves, and
flowers, and shrubs, there exhaled a sileLt dew,
which brought comfort to the heart blistered by
the sultry suns OF mo. The intercourse OF men
and women is often harsh and chahng. Little ir-
E,tatlons' IKE netties. lie hid along the paths, but
the silent growth OF n garden mmunes with
out speech, and every leaf becomes a leaf Of heal
ing,
Reformers ought especially to cultivate gardens,
for the harsh grind of the world comes with dou-
BILE force ON those who set themselves Ill any man
ner against 1t. Hence comes reaction, and what
was begun from pure love is persisted IN from sci
tsh anu venSe;ul indignation. The silent growth
OF ono beloved hower-the culture even OF one
r1se-puSh might teach the reiormer many things
,na' human WeaKhess is APT 10 forget, ana liken
MIN more TO INN VINO schtefh ram on the Just ana
on .hu unjust. II Snruen - Ia uhequalieu study
Tor a clergyman. lie shall tnd theology IN 1t alto
gether more juicy anu stocky than that which
grows oy lamp 'ght ana stove heat IN his
st9uy.
VERY great truth OF mans nature is there shad-
oWeo OUT 10 nun from day TO day. IN never ceasing
nllegories; Can he drop tho fine invisible seed
ll'o inc o!ack' sIleht EARN without speculhtions on
th'. i"I." III 'ne inVuTe anu unseen Which IS the
i?ot % ! rei5lon . noes NOT every SEED day 70
nun, A"a' 'hou SoWest Is not qulckehed except 1t
Ole! ~
Anu atsouSh inc seed'ueath seem long, yet
wnen me nnwerresurrecoon comes does 1t not
urans VIII y u promise OF that other resurrec-
,loh PROMISED u ia'tn I mere are some seeds so
long IN germlnaunS tn@t Tue inexperienced Horst
gives mem up 'ot ios.' Dut wheO nope has iailed;
~ tney Spran =, ;" a. ias', a'u 'ucn upspll"g'ngs 'ell
Tue plStpT W W uCSpdlT VI spiritual seeu equally