The Pathway Strewn with Flowers

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

The Pathway Strewn with Flowers

As a man sows, so shall he reap, is true of the moral world as well as of the world of Nature; sow loving thoughts and reap good words; sow kind words and reap love and sympathy. There is a sweet significance in the old custom of strewing flowers in the pathway of those to whom we wish joy. Do we mean that happiness is to rain in showers before them, and the rough ground be made smooth by depths of roses? There is a deeper meaning; the pathway of the good, is indeed, strewn with flowers, but they spring up behind the footsteps, not before them.