| Show THE PLANT AND irs I 1 IS BLOOM in ID a meeting in this city the other ether day where a select elect company had as bumbled for instruction a speaker who bae pawed passed the three score sed and ten mark and has baa bad many experiences experience in europe america and in the talon isles of the pacific used as an illustration of a point which he be wished to impress upon his bis younger hearers a beau beautiful flower awer that had bad been out cut and placed in ft a glass of water and which at favorable attention from the company said he in suil stance the fragrance and loveliness of that flower receive more attention tor for a little while today than they did when it if was wagon on the me v plant among the mavie mass of its associates in the flader bed bad its brightness brig fitness sod and beauty are singled out for notice now partly because it to is separate from others of its kind sod and partly because of the fact tan unconsciously perhaps with many we realize the boum bloom Is isaiou about to 0 tade fade and away lovely an it la Is we recognize that ito if end is come no more Is it connected with the source whence it obtained its fragrance and its worth it has been I 1 cut from me parent stew etem it to ia dying or dead but the plant from which it ws wo talked taken lives livee to produce more flowers as beautiful and which it if they are re allowed to remain on oa it win de as dolop the seed that propagates more of its kind and thus may go on leg ing forever here we may realize that the brightest flower Is not greater than the plans that gives it existence do not think that the showy bloom which i 19 out oat off and dying contains all the worth the real foal prize to is the plant which produced it the flower loses by being out from bronit its Ite source of life but to the be plant there to is no lose los in due time it bring fil more flowers flower to supply the place of those that are taken away and fade and die without accomplishing the full fall measure of perfection that naturally would have attended them it if no separation had taken place I 1 the the principle illustrated by the speaker finus finds application in all the walks of life many very my many peo pie pet fet their store on the beauty of the be cut flower and when it withers away are without Us it solace but the wiser ones who set their stoie on the plant that corti continues to produce sod and to tins in crease have neither fears nor occasion for disappointment the flowers continue to bud and bloom for them the latter day saints saint maylock may mayl look on frequent illustrations of this la in their experience as a church ornano station figuratively bright lowers have sprung from abe gospel plant represented in the church have continued ned to their full period and have pawed on od their way to the full fruition of their hopes in the eternal sion alon ot of their works others apparently so aa bright have been cut away ani although praised and prized tor for a time bave faded from eight and from existence but the church gees on the plant livee rod and the fragrance and abundance of its ita bloom is ie and |
