The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-06-28
lessons from the FIowers.

Re Lessons from the Flowers.
Miss Hattie read to us, nsday when
we were going to writsocompesitiops,
"a day always so muehs.dreaded in
school,) about the "Rose Of jericho"
called by botsnisss' s.Auzstatia,2 or,
s4he Flower Of tbs Resnrrs0tion- This
wonderful plant, witheBsd, dsied, and
sprooted by the simeon, and borne
away on It's fiery wings, viii, ifsit1falls
| on a wet bit Of earth, take 1est and
bloom again, no matter how long time
| it may have lain withered, and to al
outward appearances, dsady Ratsa
Miss Hattie said she had seen at the
house of friend, plant brought from
California perfectly brown and dry, and
Hooking as # dead, that would IN twenty
four hours, ifput in dish filed with
IwateEi turn green, and expand al is
dry leaves, that became tender and
plant as the freshly grown leaves on
any of our garden plants; and you
Knight dry It again and again, and allow
years to eiApses and yet every time you ..
put il into water it would revive with
sorto Immortal yigor. =, = = .su,..
H. She told US also of wonderfully
beautiful flower that is found in Cali
ifornia, called sthe Flower Of the Holy
lGhost7 The blossom Of this marvel -
tis white; in texture and color not un-
Hike our 9snowberry = but the berry,
liz berry lean be called, is not sound,
but as perfect little snow white dove
as could be modelled in wax. Miss
Hattie said that cousin Of hers saw IN
Cuba, in a herbariam, what she sup
posed was dried butterfly with his
wings o6Espread, for so perfect was the
resemblance, that even after she was
assured that it was flower from
Grenada dried and pressed, shs could
| hardly believe il was not after all a.
lbutteray. - 1a5lsss S fslsh s. siss
/ In Louisiana in spring whose.
1tempesatufs is las degrees, moses,
trees, and shrubs thrive with their roots
| constantly Immersed in boiling water;
/ and in Iceland, in geyser that viii
boil an egg in few Minutes small
itplans grows, blossoms ripens is seed
4 ldrops It, and reproduces itself annually,
| and in the Fumarloe, on the island OF
Ischia in Italy, near Naples sedge
| and fern grow in the midst Of ascsEding
lyapors. and In q soil 50 hot that the
sthand that attempts to touch thsir roots
lis scalded Instantly In the lava OF Mt
sEtDa, the Indian. fg strikes. its roots
4 slowly and surely in every creyice, and
imerely BY the force ofits growth, splits
Ilaree blocks Of lava asundeF, and
u 3csaaables them into mould fit for tillage.
On this iast item I remember one of
1.-The girls IN my class wrote the follow-e
: ing composition sess4 sS5sss, yrsg.
IA. tiny little seed once few down
ON huge block Of lava, and said i
!, vii break your hard heart for youg
e fThe lava, brown and hardened by age
2 | having resisted the storms Of Centuries,
Z laughed at the little presumptuouz in
truder. and said. sYoui no indeed, that
E Is more than you can do. May tryY
! aid the seed. Tryl o ceFtsinly, but
2, you viii have your labor for your pains.
y So the tiny seed nestled down comfort
> ABLY in little crack in the monstrous
1t Block, and lay quietly enough for a year
IS Or two ! but ali the while steadily and.
e slowly her little 7ootlets thrust them
q selves down, and her stems rose and
thickened into branches, and the creyies
d M the lava became wider and wider,
as until at last with great groan the huge
- block of lava broke in two. The seed
= = | continued to grew, and spread forth
D her roots, arumbling the lava more and
y | more, until the mighty massyas slllrs-
4 duced to fina powder, upon which see
n n stood, and moved her branches, tall and
5. strong, home for sweet singing birds,
20 and bearing abundant wholesome fruit,
ae ae long after the block Of lava had perishsd
4. HI the dust. This / think is something
ngl likethe small ssedof the Gospel when
in ittakss rootina Pagan land, It is like
the Word of God planting itseifin the
~ ~ rocky and barren human soul, and
:. then spreading and growing, until II
lat has converted all the substance Of the
re soul into soil for its own support and
Il. hourishment." -.
he / remember .thrt Mis-. Hattie asked
tic | us If we would vote any extra marks
|Eht 10 the gid who wrote this compost
lmss IN ton. and We voted her ten, which
oil were put into her weekly report, and
for pleased her father and T mother ysr' 'l3
~: much. r - ia -.