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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1905

Spiritual Irrigation

A MAN bought a strip of arid land in California, on which nothing could be made to grow. But it had this advantage, it lay near enough a mountain stream, so that by much labor he led it through his plot. Behold the miracle of irrigation! All growth is luxurious and abundant. The geraniums are like trees. The roses smother the fences with bloom. The orange tree, as Dr. Hillis puts it, “with its feet in the water, its head in fire, distills into orbs of gold.” “Without me,” says the mountain stream, “ye can do nothing.”

Thus, though “barren and unfruitful” of ourselves, by faith that brings to us the indwelling spirit of Christ, we know with Paul, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”—Selected.