Blossoming Thoughts by H. W. Beecher

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1867

Blossoming Thoughts.

By H. W. Beecher

THE sunlight makes the violet blossom. No surgeon's instrument can make flowers blossom, and no hammer can drive them forth. But the sweet, persuading sun can call them out. A seed is planted. The sun looks, and kisses the place again, and a green plant appears above the ground! It looks once more, and kisses the place once more, and a beautiful white blossom unfolds itself!

And thus it is with the soul. No logic can pry out these devout aspirations. No philosophy can drive them forth. But let God's sweet persuading soul rest upon ours a while, and they come up and blossom. The soul is the garden of the Lord.—H. W. Beecher.