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Show SPRING'S GLORIOUS MESSAGE Awakening Life of Earth Brings With It the Splendid Promise of Life Everlasting. What a beautiful picture is that of the spring ! How mysteriously the earth "bringeth forth her bud" ! How spontaneously it "causeth the things that are sown in it to spring" ! So in the higher world of spiritual things God brings forth the fruits of righteousness right-eousness and praise. The idea is that spiritual fruit must be spontaneous and not mechanical. Tou cannot make a garden by tying artificial flowers and wax fruit on dead branches. It must spring from hidden sources. The message mes-sage of spring is ever the same: life, spontaneous life, exuberant life, overflowing over-flowing life. Let our hearts respond to that message and in answer to their cry the Master will make real to us his promise, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." A- B. Simp- j son. |