The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-25

ter Scott, II am studying the love o6
my Maker for me in his care for this
little wild flower. If God is willing to
take the time to color this little leaf
and place it in veins and arteries AZ
perfect in construction as are the veins
of my own body, if he is at pains to
warm this leaf into life and feed It and
give it drink, surely God is willing to
care and does care for me, whom he
has made in his own divine image"
Was not Walter Scott's answer right?
Can we not find the love Of God for
man demonstrated in Gods care for
the wild flower Of Palestine, which
Christ called lilies? Indeed on this day
go further than this. assert that no
man can fully realize the love and ten
derness Of God unless he has seen them
pictorialized on the leaves Of the wild
flowers The poet preacher, Henry
Ward Beecher, said: Il do not believe
that any one can fully read the natural
world who does not read the Bible, and
am satisfied that no one can read the
Bible to the best advantage who does
not read the natural world great
deal. These things are very much to
each other-what blossom is to fruit
and what germ Is to blossom. One If
not the cause Of the other helps to pro
duce it. And 80 these two revelations,
the external and the internal, work to-
gether and both work for the same
purpose"
Symbols of Gods Care.
Can you not see Gods love and care
| for you in the looms which weave to-
| gether a rose leaf, in the strength OF
| the honeysuckle, which lifts itself
| above the ground, clambering over the
sides of u wall or porch in order to
reach the light Of the sun? Can you
not find Gods protection lowering over
you in the bristling thorns of the bush,
which guard the wild flower from the
reckless touch of an approaching foe!
Can YOU not fathom Gods care for you
by studying the roots that suck up the
strength out of the ground and the mar
velous chemistry which can gather out
Of the same black soil the red for the
azalea, the purple for the daffodil, the
| blue for the heliotrope, the lavender
| for the hyacinth, the pink for the car
| nation and the white for the lily!
Though there are millions and millions
Of wild flowers every spring and sum-
mer, though the fields may be covered
with dandelions and daisies and sun
flowers and goldenrod, yet each indi-
| vidual flower shows Gods tender care,
| whether it be the trailing arbutus hid
ing in the mountains or the sweet mi
gnonette and the bluebells and the for
| getmenots and all the Trailer floral
beauties which are grown In the green
houses of the horticulturists. 1t Goo
cares for the inanimate things Of this
world, for the many weeds like the
thistle, which the farmer tries to de-
stroy; if God cares for the daisies
which cannot speak; for the moon
flowers, which only bloom at night; for
the sensitive plants, SO sensitive that at
the least rough shaking of the wind7
their petals will fly shut; for the pollen
which is tossed in the air by the sum
mer breezes, that rose may be married
to rose, aster to aster, mignonette to
mignonette, clematis to clematis-sure'
" God does care for immortal man, for
whom Christ was born and Christ died
and Christ was resurrected on Easter
day. Yes, God does care for you
though you have been an invalid fol
the last twenty years. He does care
for you, though a widow, and seeming
ly facing a life of financial struggle
with large brood Of little ones al
your back. He cares for you, though
you seem at this moment not to have
friend in all the wide, wide world. he
cares for you, l know it. This Easter
day Christ says: Consider the wild
flowers Of the fields. As have cared
for the lilies, so am caring for you
oh, ye Of little faithv'
God Loves the Flowers.
Christ loves the Easter lilies. There
fore he respects the work which these
Easter lilies are doing. AS he come!
out of the tomb today he does not benz
over a little daisy or forgetmeno
I duu say, Ouf AASAGAAASAA~ Ao"SAs "As
are you not chrysanthemum among
the flowers or a cedar Of Lebanon
among the trees? Then the birds Of tn
air could come and build their nest
among your great branches. Then tn
great beams of my cross could hav'
been cut out of the trunk Of your tree
Then a house could have been erectet
from your wood near to my carpente
shop In Nazareth" Oh, no. Chris
would not speak thus on this Easte
day to daisy. For If he did, the dais.
would look up and say: "Oh, risel
Lord, why art thou rebuking me? I
thou didst want me to do the work 0
cedar of Lebanon, why didst thou no
make 1t possible for me to grow into
!, great tree?" Is tortoise to be con
tdemned because 1t has to crawl AM
has not the wings Of a dove? Shall til
+ blind fish of the Mammoth cave o
, Kentucky be upbraideds because tho
hast put out their eyes with centurlc
. upon centuries of darkness? Shall til
!, bat be slain because it has no ears wit
>. which to hear or a trout be 1excomm,