Then she would tell how beautiful the garden looked at that sweetearly hour; and Mrs. Newton would listwelve with pleasure, for she loveda garden. She used to say, that God placed man in a garden when hewas happy and holy; and when he was sinful and sorrowful, it was in agarden that the blessed Saviour wept and prayed for the sin of theworld; and when his death had made atonement for that sin, it was ina garden his blessed body was laid.

Mrs. Newton taught Fanny many things from flowers; she was not a badteacher, inside her own simple way, but Jesus Christ, who was the bestteacher the world ever had, instructed his disciples from vines andlilies, corn and fruit, and birds, and all natural things around them.

And while Fanny tied up her bunches of flowers, she would repeatsome verses from the Holy Scriptures, such as this, "0 Lord, howmanifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earthis full of thy riches." And afterwards she would repeat such beautifullines as these:--