July 5—A. neglected garden may be an eyesore to many of us; most gardening enthusiasts like to see the plot of land under their "care looking very neat and tidy. However, it is really most interesting to study a garden that has been permitted to become untidy and note the various plants that have survived the ordeal and are making a brave struggle for a mere existence. We have recently spent much of our leisure time in a neglected garden. The extensive lawn, once the pride of a local ornithologist, is of weeds, That terrible nuisance, the small-leaved oxalis, is all over the place, and cost of eradication would be prohibitive present time, ried out in an attempt to rather a hopeless task, it trying. Here and there on other weeds that are not kill as the oxalis, but there are also many refer to as wild attractive. The chief blue-flowered gentian "Ladies tresses" The peculiar habit of producing arrangement along a slender we are finding more int time we explore the ares it would appear that non-interference is necessary.
The first two slaves go to work and succeed in doubling what has been entrusted ta., them; the third slave makes ho use of his opportunities. In due course the master comes to see how the slaves have managed his properly. The first two servants report in much the same terms and are commended in much the same words. The reward of faithful service is first the approval of the master, and second the opportunity for more abundant and more responsible service. The reward of a duty done, is a duty to be done'. 5 The third slave has now to justify himself if he can. The obvious course is to complain about the conditions of his service and to blacken the character of the master. He is a hard many who enriches himself -by the labours of other people. He reaps where he has noў sown and gathers where he has not scattered. Though the master does not accept the designation hard man', he makes no attempt to; rebut the charge. The point in religious terms is that it is inscience and presumption on man's part to question the terms on which God has created and given him a place in the world. It is not man's business to sit in judgment upon God. It is his business to live and work and die for, the glory of God. That is his privilege; and hit highest reward is to be allowed fo go on doing A grudging spirit, taking cover under ground-ting fears has warped the servant's mind, and made him unfruitful. punishment. for neglected opportunity is deprivation of opportunity, But God's work goes on; and the task which one man refuses is given to another who will do it—the talent is taken from the slave with the murmuring disposition and given unto him that hath the ten talents.' And it is here me meet with the cryptic saying referred to, above which may be expanded thus: To him. has added something of his own to what entrusted to him, more of mine shall be entrusted and he shall have abundance. But from him who has added nothing of his own to what I entrusted to him, shall be taken away what I entrusted to him'. What is condemned is the indulgence of a discontented, selfish mind rendering a man not only sterile in himself but an impediment in the path of others. Envy and meanness always met with the scathing condemnation of the Master.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.