Article March 25, 1905 Issue

Individual Work

LAURA C. LYMAN.

There are many sentences in the Bible which seem so clear in their statements, so unmistakable in their meaning, and which are so illustrated in our familiar experiences, that there can be but one thought as to the lesson we are to learn from them, and such a sentence is this from Galatians, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

As we repeat it, the picture comes vividly to our minds, of the autumn fields, so wonderful and beautiful in their variety, but all governed by a single unvarying law,—the seed sown, springing forth into leaf, bud, and blossom, and producing in its time a seed precisely like that from which it sprang. The plant, separate in its identity, fills its place, great or small, grows, blooms, and sends forth its fragrance and beauty. "To every seed his own body."

As with the flowers in the fields of earth, so with the stars in the spaces of heaven. The light of one star never mingles with the light of another, but its rays travel in a straight line direct from their radiant source and with inconceivable rapidity, for "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory."

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