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Show ''TAB MABVKESOF'A SEEP, . touvevt)p couiUircd Jul w wonder wi, a thl ojf g the Wed of o jrlaoll It Is the mjskrxer iiljgtcrfcs..fioii said, Let therv be'."p)tiuta jiUditigiicd;'' ami Jt It 4 ddcdeacU ino'afttr blslcrttd ' We 8ae- ritoifJltCuticr, tlwught thegjniji of elt piutf prcMnt ond fotur Kenerotloni-of 'secdi were contalrttd on-jrlthin on-jrlthin ihj other, is l( packed In'osue-Wwion. In'osue-Wwion. br Iwxcs, f OtLer Itarocd rocii WMXWalncd tlirfTiarstertr In a different - lJat? wliM tlfitiify nil their exptrna. tlOMl. iettKem explalalt asibejr Vtli, tDewondcr'Ycruatnk -tbo'safne; and wq tot .till look upon -Ui rcproductfon of ttw teedf a coutinual mjgterr. ( -U there opoWiartU ii macluno, h there Place; It there even a dty, which contains con-tains go much that Is wonderful its Is cnt closed In a,slrtj;l littlo cedono grain of corn, ono tittlcf LrbVu applo seed of 4 weepicked p, perhapjby n. sparrow-for ner -little pries, themallest seed of-'n popnor tt bllte belbreven' ono brthe eds that nrc so smalt that they Boat boot hralr Invisible td oar cyesl Ah there I a wo'rld or mwcls and bril-4iDt bril-4iDt le4iUM - Itidctt in' each of the tiny KedsCoosJder' thWrtWWjWrn8b8ff ' 1 "' V '1"l l' ' ". MH.i.'.W.I the i perfect scparatfofl or the ilHferent kladsr, theif power of .Iifo ftnd resnrrcc-tin resnrrcc-tin ftHd tkeir woridcrrnt froitfaliKsii) " Consider Srst their nufaUer. Aboo ft hundred and fifty years ago, the celebrated celebrat-ed lilmweHS, who ha? been catted "trio fai ther of botany," reckoned about S.OflO different plants; and he then, thought that the whole tiaiibcr existing conld not mnch exceed 1.0,000. JHut a hnndrcd years after af-ter hlin' Jf, Jlo Caudolte, of Genera, dq-scrlWd dq-scrlWd 4f,(M)0 kinds ofplaritss and at' a latcr.petfod he counttid do.gOQ.thcn 80,000, and h? snppbscd it pdssiblo tbat tho nmn-bcr,if;ht nmn-bcr,if;ht cren nrnhnnt to 100,000, Welf, let raor nsk yon, have these 100, (W Itaek of plants' failed to1 bear tKe.ttrht iicedr llave'they eVcr deccivid jis? Has n; .seed' of ;wheat ever yielded barley,, or T seed of poppy Brown tip into a sun-flowcrt Uus a sycaroorils tree crcr sprung frqm on acorn: or ti beech tree from a clicstnntT - A little bird may carry away the' small seed of' a sycamore lu Its beak to fecd'tts nesttlnfes, aud on the Way may drop it n ibp prdnnd. Tho.tiny seed way spring np.nnd grow, whcro.it fell j nnaotlctvi; nud sixty years nfter.it may become rt magnificcht tree,,' under which the Ooclfs; of the ralicys and (heir shepherds may rest. In the shada : 'Consider hext the-Wonderful power of life and resarrcctlbb"e5towed oiithosteds of plants; so thai they may" "be preserved froui year to year; nnd'eren from tcntriry' to ccntiify; ' . - - i,. Ict Vcfiild put it fcV&ccds tn (i drawer, ! ond shut-.tliem tip, riitd sixty ycars afterf .wards, whert fifa hair'i whl?o aud hi? step tottering, Jet him take fine of these, seeds' and sow it, on tlio ground and soon after hewifl see ItWprjng tip loto ticw life, mid become " a young; fresh arid "beautiful' plant " , ' M.Jooannct relates that in the year 1835, FQHTul old Celtic tombs were dis-corcrcd'near.llergoraei dis-corcrcd'near.llergoraei - Under the hcad' ol, cach;Of the dead bodies there was a romid smalt; square stone or brkfc, wltlr a-hbla a-hbla ia It, containing a few seeds, .which bad been placed there beside the dead by the heathen friends who had hurled them, perhaps 1,600 or' 1,?00 -years before. These seeds were carefully sown by those who found tlicrOj arid whatlo- yon' thitik was sctii to sprang up frbtrl this du.st bf the dcndl--btaittlfulsntillbwcrs, bhid corn flowers ahtl clover, bearing bto.soms as bright olid Kwc'ct as tjiosp whtch arc woven Into wreath's by the merry children noW playing lit onriieldji, , Seine' years ngotja ratio Iicrmcttcalty' sMled. -.wns found, in a;-'wuminy Jiit-iu ypt'.'iy 1 'theJJiiglUh .trlveler; Wilkin-' son, whokeiit it td the Jirltlsli 'Mnscnin." Th&librarfan there liiiying tinfortunatcly .brbken.ft,' fliscavcrcd in it v few grains of wheat and bno or two jcas, old, wrinkled, ond'os Iiiifd as a stone. The jieus were' planted CJircfulty'nuder glass on 4th jttne,-IBl'l, jttne,-IBl'l, nntlHat the- tud 'of thirty days" these, old.secds were, seen to. spring up Inio new life. Thc'y nad bctn, buried, probably pro-bably '3)000 years ,nf,o, iierliaps1 In 'the trtnefMo'ses, nhd had slep) all tlmttoug time, apparently - dead, yet still t'tvliig jn thcVdust.bf the iomb- ' Is. not the springing of thesccdinn ciin-blcm ciin-blcm bf ihcr resurrection of the; iitcadr Acebl'dlngly It I ine'titibucd bj; the Ap'os-,tlo; Ap'os-,tlo; Taul, iti V Cor. xv., where; rrom the, springing of the seed, be cxplahra tbor doctrine of the, resurrection Uantiat.- |