<h2><SPAN name="WHAT_DID_YOU_SEE" id="WHAT_DID_YOU_SEE" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></SPAN>[54]</span>WHAT DID YOU SEE?</h2>
<p>A few days ago I made a trip on the train. When I returned home one of
the first questions my little boy asked me was, "What did you see?" I
shall tell you what I told him.</p>
<p>Looking out of the car window I saw an immense field, acres and acres,
and in that field were planted hundreds, yes thousands, of little trees.
I inquired of the man who sat next me, "What are those little trees
for?" He said, "They are growing those little trees to reforest the
desolate, burned over regions of the Adirondacks." I said to myself,
"That is just what we are doing in my church. We are growing girls and
boys to reforest the needy places of the earth." I inquired, "How long
do they keep those little trees there?" "Not very long," said he, "just
long enough to give them a good start. Then they transplant them." Again
I said to myself, "That is exactly what we do. We keep the girls and
boys only a little while, then they are transplanted."</p>
<p>I had another question. "When they trans<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></SPAN>[55]</span>plant these little trees how do
they plant them, haphazard, every-which-way?" "No, indeed," was his
answer, "they are planted in rows, and close together." Exactly what we
are doing in our church, I thought. We are growing our girls and boys,
and we are keeping them close together, because they are such a help to
one another, and there is great inspiration in numbers.</p>
<p>Looking out of the train window at those trees of future forests, I
thought of the verse in Isaiah, "The mountains and the trees shall break
forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands." I can hear the mountains and the hills of the Adirondacks
singing because of the growing trees, and I hear the mountains and the
hills of earth singing because of the millions of growing girls and boys
who shall reforest the desolate places of earth.</p>
<p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Psalm</i> 92: 13</p>
<div class="blockquot"><p>"Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the
courts of our God."</p>
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<p>MEMORY HYMN [677]</p>
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<span><i>"Saviour, like a shepherd lead us."</i><br/></span></div>
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