The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-23

shall be led carefully 10 cultivate this
garden within US, that fresh plants may
always flourish there, and that no wlther-
ing leaves may mar It's beauty or rare
flowers cease 70 shed their fragrance.
Il dreamed OF love l thought the air
Was glowing with the smile OF God.
An angel told me ali the sod
Was beauteous with answered prayer.
] looked. and 10, The flowers were there"
Miss STRAUGHAN.
Look nature through, IT'S revolution all;
All change; no death. Day follows night:
and night
The dying day; stars rise and set and
RISE
Earth takes the example. See. the sum-
mer gay.
With her green chaplet and ambrosial
flowers.
Droops into pallid autumn; winter gray
Hoard with frost. and turbulent with
storm.
Blows autumn and his golden fruits
away;
Then melts into the spring soft spring.
with breath
Favonian. from warm chambers OF the
South,
4NENtaAtN t4tT iAf7 ntta 70 IfliUlElEll. AuuEss
As IN wheel; all sinks. TO reascend-
Embiems Of man, who passes not ex-
pires.-Edward Young.
EDMUND h. GOLDsBOROUGE. y.
The existence OF God is stamped In the
most legible characters on the whole
economy OF nature-is written on the face
OF day, IN characters OF radiant light. by
every SUNBEAM which comes down to
earth. and Is reflected by every orb which
glitters In the canopy OF night Had III
spiration never revealed the truth 10 man,
had the lips OF the prophets never been
touched with holy FIRE. still we had not
been without evidence OF the existence,
the power. the goodness. and providence
OF God, strong as proofs OF holy writ"
Who Is there who has ever looked up
10 the golden gates OF the resplendant
west and beheid them arrayed In all
their magnihcenee. and watched the beau
tiful departure Of the God OF day and
has not felt himself lifted from earth to
heaven, and his feeling spirituaIlz6d By
the contemplation OF the scene? At such
time. walk abroad In the country-go
alone or with a friend-let your heart
be open 10 the influence OF the scene-let
its hOme-felt delights rise up unrepressed
resign yourself freely and entirely 10
the emotions of your own bosom-and II
you have not been too far corrupted and
contaminated by intercourse with the
world YOU will return a better, happier,
and holieT man.
TALLULAH DeS. SMITH.
Around US. all about US. and a part OF
our very images is this mysterious some
thing, which, for the want OF a better
name, we call natuTe-something not
made by man. and Of Divine origination.
Nature has, since times immemorial. fur
nished the foundation upon which man
has worked and upon which he has built
all superstrUctures in his steady advance
made possible by science and skill. While
man has labored on one branch Of ma
ture. another has sang sweet songs 20
him or stTewed his pathway with roses.
BY looking out upon the fathomleg5
depths OF the great ocean or upon the
silveTy surface Of q beautiful lake, the
children Of God have received many an
inspiration for the performance of great
deeds In short. nature has placed be-
fore man and at his disposal the means
whereby he may crafty all worthy de-
sires; the material out Of which he may
fashion all things needed for his earthly
greatest Of all, IL has placed before him
influences and surroundings which have
lifted him heavenward and toward better
things. H. SYLVESTER WILSON.
Nature Is a mistress Of many moods
fierce and inexorable, or smiling. tender.
and yielding, as suits her fancy jealous
Of her laws, she is just but terrible IN her
punishment for their violation. There she
displays no weak mercy. With her cause
and consequence are inseparable and
inevitable Her agents, the elements.
have no forbearance. Fire burns, water
browns. air consumes. earth buries
But when she smiles nothing can be
more enhancing. more seductive. or more
lavish The harvests are bountiful, the
landscape beautiful. the sunrise glorious,
and sunset gorgeous. She teaches by ex-
ample and man finds her his best friend
when he scrupulously observes her teach
ings and her laws. ARTHUR LENoX.
To the thoughtful mind every concep-
ton OF God is deepened by the study of
nature We cannot look away into the
heavens and consider the star world
without being reminded of Him who was
called the Star of Bethlehem. When
we look upon the sun I'm its glorious
majesty we remember that the Lord God
Is a SUM- who gives grace and glory TO
His chosen ones. When the curtains OF
the night are lifted and a mighty coll
umn Of light moves on In the pathway
OF the dawning day, then DO, our minds
turn from the miracle Of nature TO the
miracle of grace. and we are reminded
esain OF that true light that lighteth
every man that cometh into the world.
We stand among the howers--the crea-
lures of his tender care-and as we mark
their grace and beauty there comes 20 as
across the centuries the word of Him
who was Himself the Rose Of Sharon"
and the Lily Of the Valley whispering
of His continual care and protection. We
walk in wonder by the seattle sea that
is His because He made it-and watch
its waves tempest-lashed break in fury
upon the shore, and irTesistbly our
thoughts turn 10 that wondrous scene
upon the waters OF Gallilee, when at
single quiet command the waters We're
robbed of their turbulent anger. ard we
pray that the Masters Peace, be still,
may quiet these restless hearts of ours.
II we seek the mountains in their I'M
ohangeable stiffness and grandeur there
comes 10 US. like a strong tower Of refuge.
the assurance. AS the mountains are
round about Jerusalem. 50 the Lord is
round about His people fOreverm0re."
And so nature not only speaks 10 as or
Gods infinite power and might. but above
all, she speaks continually of His infinite
love and care, lifting her myriad voices
in a chorus of unparalleled sweetness,
which wings Itself from heart 10 heart.