FALLING LEAVES — AN OBJECT LESSON.
We have just passed the season of the year when the figure of falling leaves is often used in our work. How often we hear the expression, Our publications should be scattered as thickly as falling leaves on every hand. When the weather is calm, the leaves fall on all sides of the tree, and are evenly distributed on every hand; but they do not always lie there; often a little breeze springs up, and then what a scene takes place! The leaves, just before so calm and still, are set in motion; and in proportion to the strength of the breeze, they go leaping and dancing before the gale. We have often watched them, and have thought how well they illustrate our condition when the heavenly breezes blow upon us. Under the impulse of the Holy Spirit we do not feel like lying still and settling down in one place; but, like the leaves, we are all in motion; and like the leaves under the impulse of the breeze, all move in one direction, as though we had some definite object in view. May the heavenly breezes blow in power on the Church, so that, like the falling leaves, we may be continually scurrying over the country, bearing the good news of the gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.