mingle with the fresh air, and be inhaled by your lungs once more. Thus
do you feed the plants; just as the plants feed you; while the great life-
giving sun feeds both; and the geranium standing in the sick child's
window does not merely rejoice his eye and mind by its beauty and
freshness, but repays honestly the trouble spent on it; absorbing the
breath which the child needs not, and giving to him the breath which he
needs.

So are the services of all things constituted according to a Divine and
wonderful order, and knit together in mutual dependence and mutual
helpfulness.--A fact to be remembered with hope and comfort; but also
with awe and fear. For as in that which is above nature, so in nature
itself; he that breaks one physical law is guilty of all. The whole
universe, as it were, takes up arms against him; and all nature, with her
numberless and unseen powers, is ready to avenge herself on him, and on
his children after him, he knows not when nor where. He, on the other
hand, who obeys the laws of nature with his whole heart and mind, will
find all things working together to him for good. He is at peace with
the physical universe. He is helped and befriended alike by the sun
above his head and the dust beneath his feet: because he is obeying the
will and mind of Him who made sun, and dust, and all things; and who has
given them a law which cannot be broken.




THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.


The more I have contemplated that ancient story of the Fall, the more it