Daisy in the Field by Elizabeth Wetherell
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be. I took it and looked at it.
"Do ye mind," my old friend said, "how the flowers spoke to you and brought you messages, when Daisy was a child yet and first came to see me?" "I know - I remember," I said. "Does that no tell you something?" "What does it tell me?" I said, scarce able to command my words, under the power of association, or memory, which was laying its message on my heart, though it was a flower that bore the message. Inanimate things do that sometimes - I think, often, - when the ear of the soul is open to hear them; and flowers in especial are the Lord's messengers and speak what He gives them. I knew this one spoke to me. "Listen, and see," Miss Cardigan said. I looked, and as I looked, these words came up in my mind - "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" "The Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him." And still as I looked, I remembered, - "In all their afflictions He was afflicted;" - and, "My God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." The words came into my head; but apart from the words, the |
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