Beauty in the Wilderness
By Editor
In our Home Department is a selected sketch that it seems to us is worthy of reading. There may be expressions that some of our purists may object to. We are not printing it because of a few of such expressions that are therein found, but because of the real beneficial lesson that it teaches. Sometimes those who are taken away from the midst of civilization and cultivated lands, mourn because they are isolated, mourn because of unlovely surroundings. This little story tells how one woman in a wilderness took the plainest, commonest sort of things that were found on every side, and transmuted them into living loveliness; and it seemed to us that there was a lesson in it not simply in a horticultural way, or floricultural way, but in a spiritual way as well. God takes poor human, common mortals — weeds many of them seem to be — in this great garden of earth, places upon them His own loveliness, transfuses them with His own Spirit, and by His own mighty power transmutes them into marvelous beauty. With this thought in mind we hope that our readers will con the little sketch.