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A Garden as God's Book of Letters

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 11.

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A Garden as God's Book of Letters

By Douglas Jerrold

A GARDEN is a beautiful book, written by the finger of God: every flower and every leaf is a letter. You have only to learn them, and join them, and then to go on reading and reading. And you will find yourself carried away from the earth by the beautiful story you are going through. You do not know what beautiful thoughts grow out of the ground, and seem to talk to a man. And then there are some flowers that seem to me like over-dutiful children: tend them but ever so little, and they come up and flourish, and show, as I may say, their bright and happy faces to you.—Douglas Jerrold.