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Gardening by Myself

Gardening by Myself

Warner, Anna Bartlett

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1152930656
ISBN13: 9781152930650
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...to do, in the great things done. First of all, then, there are weeds--always weeds--to be nipped long before they reach the bud. Then there are bare spots of earth between your plants, uncovered as yet, and always prone to bake and harden in the June sun. For both of these a small, fine rake is the best cure. Constant working among rour plants, with a careful hand, is the greatest possible refreshment to them as well as to you. How easily the dew takes effect upon the softened earth; how surely some sweet and gentle influences find their way into your spirit, if the caretrodden routine of life is broken up and stirred by work among those things which God has made and not man. JULY. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?--Job 38: 31, 34. I DO not know how any one can take full comfort in his garden who does not meet the Lord there. If all the little disappointments are to be borne alone; if all the beauties that spring up under your hands bring no thought of the hand that created them, then the garden will be a very shorn place indeed, and you will fail to get from it half its richness. For the loss of a favourite plant makes us rich--and not poor--if it comes as a new, gentle lesson in learning the Lord's will, in accepting his choice instead of our own. That acceptance (it is more than mere submission) makes a thread of perfect gold all through the duskiest life (7) pattern. And do I think it is in place with such very little things? O yes!--with everything. I had seen very little of lifework when the knowledge first came to me. I was standing by the river side waiting for my father, who at that time went to town every morning ...

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