With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . we dig up the coal and burn it in our stoveswe are simply releasing the buried sunshine which was accumu-lated and stored up by the individual leaves of the great forests ofcenturies ago. As we look upon the leaves of the trees I think we must beimpressed with the fact, that each one labors in his own appointedplace. There is no conflict, there is no crowding of one, thinkingto exalt himself above the others. There are no little parties of LEAVES, 243 leaves joining together and trying to crowd themselve
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . we dig up the coal and burn it in our stoveswe are simply releasing the buried sunshine which was accumu-lated and stored up by the individual leaves of the great forests ofcenturies ago. As we look upon the leaves of the trees I think we must beimpressed with the fact, that each one labors in his own appointedplace. There is no conflict, there is no crowding of one, thinkingto exalt himself above the others. There are no little parties of LEAVES, 243 leaves joining together and trying to crowd themselves to the top ofthe tree, but each and all work faithfully and zealously in the placewhich God has appointed them. They are not only faithful workers, but they are unselfishworkers. No leaf can have the joy which belongs to another, orthe glory of all the leaves. Each leaf has the reward of doing alittle, and when its work is done it must drop to the ground andperish in the dust. The work which it has done and the tree whichit has helped to build will be its monument and reward. If each. The Budding of the New Leaf. leaf gives its life faithfully for the building up of the tree, no leafcan fall to the ground or be shaken from its place by the autumnwind and perish in despair. If you will go into the forest at the autumn period of the year,or go into the orchard and examine where the leaves are about todrop off, you will find that at the base of the stem of each leaf,already there appears the budding of the leaf which is to beunfolded next spring, and even though the leaf withers and falls tothe ground, leaving the barren limb alone to battle with the winter 244 LEAVES. storms, yet there is the promise and the evidence that when the gen-tle breath of spring shall come and break open the icy sepulchres ofthe winter, these little buds will feel the genial warmth and unfoldtheir green beauty in a radiant springtime of beautiful foliage. Soone generation of men may die and pass away,
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