| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 19 |
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It was well if many of us would train ourselves to see the glory and the goodness of God as revealed in nature. It will be sad to leave this world after staying in it three score or fourscore years without having seen any of the ten thousand beauties with which God has adorned it. “Consider the lilies,” said Jesus. Every sweet flower has a message of joy to him who can read the writing. One who loves flowers and birds and trees and mountain and rivers and seas, and has learned to hear the voices which everywhere whisper their secrets to Him, who understands, never can be lonely and never can be sad. Emerson had ears to hear this mystic music, and wrote–
“Let me go where’er I will,
I hear a sky born music still;
It isn’t only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
But in the darkest, meanest things,
There always, always, something sings.”
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