Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-04-29

my Maker Tor me Ill his care Tor this
little wild flower. II God Is willing to
take the time TO color this little leaf
and place it in veins and arteries as
perfect In construction as are the veins
of my own body. if he is at pains to
warm this leaf into life and feed 1t and
give il drink. surely God is willing to
care and does care for me. whom he
has made in his own divine image"
Was not Walter SCOTS answer right
Can we not find the love of God for
man demonstrated in Gods care for
the wild flower of Palestine. which
I so further than this. l assert that no
man can fully realize the love and ten
herness 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 a great
deal. These things are very much to
each other-what blossom is to fruit
and what germ is to blossom. One IL
not the cause of the other helps to pro-
duce it. And so 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 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 lily2
Though there are millions and millions
of wild flowers every spring and sum-
mer. though the fields may be covered
with dandclions and daisies and sun
flowers and goldenrod, yet each indi-
vidual flower shows Gods tender care,
whether il he the trailing arbutus hid
ing In the mountains or the sweet mi
gnonette and the bluebelis and the for
getmenots and all the Trailer floral
beauties which are grown In the green
houses of the horticulturists. II God
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 winds
their petals will fly shut; for the pollen.
which is tossed in the air by the sum-
to rose. aster TO aster. mignonette to
mignonette. clematis to clematis-sure-
ly God does care for immortal man, for
whom Christ was born and Christ died
and Christ was resurrected OH Easter
day Yes. God does care for you.
though you have been an invalid for
the last twenty years. He does care
for you. though u widow. and seeming
ly facing life of financial struggle,
with large brood of little ones at
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. know 1t. This Easter
day Christ says: Consider the wild
flowers of the fields AS l have cared
for the lilies. so am caring for you.
oh. We Of little faith-'
God Loves the Flowers.
Christ loves the Easter lilies. There
fore he respects the work which these
Easter lilies are doing AS he comes
out of the tomb today he does not bend
over little daisy or forgetmenot
and say. "Oh. insignificant flower. why
are you not a chrysanthemum among
uOMcIS VI d CtudI Vi LGUuuOu
among the trees? Then the birds of the
air could come and build their nests
among your great branches. Then the
great beams of my cross could have
been cut out of the trunk Of your tree.
Then n house could have been erected
from your wood near to my carpenter
shop in Nazareth" Oh. no. Christ
would not speak thus on this Easter
day to a daisy. For If he did, the daisy
would look up and say: "Oh. risen
Lord. why art thou rebuking me? If
thou didst want me to do the work Of
cedar of Lebanon, why didst thou not
make II possible for me to grow into a
great tree!" Is a tortoise to be con-
demned because it has to crawl and
has not the wings of a dove: Shall the
blind fish of the Mammoth cave Of
Kentucky be upbraided because thou
hast put out their eyes with centuries
upon centuries Of darkness? Shall the
bat be slain because II has no ears with
which to hear or a trout be eXcommu-
nicated from thy love and care because
1t has no feet with which to climb the
river bank and walk dryshod upon the