birds, long lonely days, far from his mother and his playmates, may
keep alive in him all purifying thoughts, if he will but open his
eyes and look at the green earth around him.

Think now, my boys, when you are at your work, how all things may
put you in mind of God, if you do but choose. The trees which
shelter you from the wind, God planted them there for your sakes, in
His love.--There is a lesson about God. The birds which you drive
off the corn, who gave them the sense to keep together and profit by
each other's wit and keen eyesight? Who but God, who feeds the
young birds when they call on Him?--There is another lesson about
God. The sheep whom you follow, who ordered the warm wool to grow
on them, from which your clothes are made? Who but the Spirit of
God above, who clothes the grass of the field, the silly sheep, and
who clothes you, too, and thinks of you when you don't think of
yourselves?--There is another lesson about God. The feeble lambs in
spring, they ought to remind you surely of your blessed Saviour, the
Lamb of God, who died for you upon the cruel cross, who was led as a
lamb to the slaughter; and like a sheep that lies dumb and patient
under the shearer's hand, so he opened not his mouth. Are not these
lambs, then, a lesson from God? And these are but one or two
examples out of thousands and thousands. Oh, that I could make you,
young and old, all feel these things! Oh, that I could make you see
God in every thing, and every thing in God! Oh, that I could make
you look on this earth, not as a mere dull, dreary prison, and
workhouse for your mortal bodies, but as a living book, to speak to
you at every time of the living God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Sure I am that that would be a heavenly life for you,--sure I am
that it would keep you from many a sin, and stir you up to many a
holy thought and deed, if you could learn to find in every thing