The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-03-30

the perfect separation OF the different
kinds, their power Of Iifc aud resurrec
ton and their wonderful fruitfslnessl
Consider FIRST their number. About q
hundred and fifty years ago, the celebrat
ed Linnmns, who has been called .'tbe IA
Their Of botany Teckoned about 5000
different plants; and he then thought that
the whole number existing could not much
exceed 10000. But a hundred years az
ter him M dc CaudolIe, Of Geneva, de.
scribed 10000 kinds Of plants; and at d
laterpcfiod be counted GO, 900, then so. 600,
aud lie supposed il possible that the num-
Der might eyen amount to 100 900. III
Well, let me nsk You, have these 100.
900 Kinds Of plnnts ever failed 10 hear
the right seedl Have they ever deceived
MS Has q seed OF wheat ever yielded
barley or q seed Of poppy grown up into
. sunalower? Has q sycamore tree ever
sprung from an acorn; or q beech tree
from a chestnut Al little bird may carry
away the small seed Of a sycamore III lis
beak TO feed It's nestlings, and on the way
may drop Il on the ground. The tiny
seed may spring MP and grow where il
fell; unnoticed, aud sixty years after, ii
may become magnificent tree. under
which the flocks Of Tie valleys and their
shepherds may rest in the shade.
Consider next the wonderful power of
life and resurrection bestowed on the seeds
of plants. 50 that they may be preserved
from year to year, and even from century
to century. y.,.s
/ Let a child put few seeds in a drawer
and shut them up, and sixty years after
wards, when bis hair Is white and his step
lettering, let hun take one Of these seeds
and SOW II on the ground and soon after
he win sec u spring up into new life, and
become q young, fresh and beautiful
plant
I. M, Jouaunet relates that 10 the year
1895, several old Celtic tombs we're dis
covered near. Bergorac. Under the head
#oi each Of the dead bodies there was a
round small, square stone or brick, with a
hole in il, containing few seeds, which
had been placed there beside the dead by
the heather friends who had buried them,
perhaps 800 or l TOO years before.
These seeds we're carefully sown by those
who found them, and what do you think
was seen to spring up from this dust Of
the dead - beautiful sanhowers, blue corr
flowers. aud clover, bearing blossoms as
bright aud sweet as those which ARE woven
into Wreiths BY the merry children now
.piaying in our fields. Z. .::.. .:%, Z
. Some years age, d vase hermctically
sealed. was found ID pamms pit III
Egypt b the Englsk trayeler, Wllkin.
son, who seat Tito the British Museum.
The librarian there having unfortunately
broken II, discovered in il u few grains Of
wheat and one or two peas, old, wrihkled,
md as hard as stone. The peas we're
planted carefully under glass on 4th June,
IS4l, and at the end of thirty days
these old seeds were seen TO spring up
into new life They had been buried pro-
badly 5000 years ago, perhaps in the
time Of Moses, and had slept all that long
time, apparently dead, yet still living III
the dust Of the tomb. Il. 4.
is not the springing Of the seed an eIn.
blem or the resurrection Of the deadi
Accordingly Il is mentioned by the Apos-
tie Paul, III | Cor. xv., where, from the
springing Of the seed, he explains the
doctrine Of the resurrection GansscR.
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