One of the most beautiful parables of our Saviour is that in which He teaches the lesson of human dependence upon Divine care:"If God so clothe the grass which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Nature in Summer impresses this parable upon our mind. The lesson of Jesus is illustrated and enforced by the silent but eloquent beauty of the May field. An emerald rainbow of mercy is then around the warm, quickened bosom of the earth, assuring us that He who clothes the naked soil will clothe us too. Nay, we see the very process by which the Divine covenant is being fulfilled going on day after day under our eyes. We see the flax extracting from the earth the materials of those fibers which are to be woven into garments for us. We see in our pasture-lands the sheep converting, by some mysterious vital action, the grass which they eat into snowy fleeces to keep our bodies warm. Our food and raiment come from the same humble source; and the grass may, therefore, well be employed to teach us our frailty and dependence upon God for our temporal blessings. We know that the same law which regulates and limits the supply of our food from the grass, also regulates and limits the supply of our raiment from the grass. We are apt to think that, by the aid of our vast mechanical appliances, we can produce the materials of clothing in unlimited quantity, but the slightest reflection will convince us of the fallacy of this idea. Wool and flax are in reality as difficult to produce as corn; nay, more so; for, while they are equally subject to the vicissitudes of the season-to blights and storms and diseases they cannot, like the corn be produced in every country, being confined to certain regions and peculiar climates. The annual stock of clothing materials, like the annual supply of food, is sufficient only for the annual consumption of the human race; so that year after year, we have to work for our raiment as we have to work for our meat. We can no more accumulate and lay up in store our wool and flax than we can accumulate and lay up in store our corn. . . . And in all this we have a most convincing proof of the beautiful harmony that exists between the moral and physical laws of the universe. He who " causeth the grass to grow for the cattle," and by this agency brings food and raiment out of the earth for man, has commanded us to " take no thought for the morrow." And the limitations which He has imposed upon the production and preservation of our food and clothing, the only true riches of the world, teach us most impressively that "by taking ever so much thought we cannot make ourselves independent." We are brought back from all our vain efforts and covetous desires after an inexhaustible store of life's necessaries, from the faithless faint-heartedness, which is too often the principal motive in the pursuit of the phantom independence, to a simple, childlike trust in Him who hath promised to feed and clothe us as He feeds and clothes the grass of the field.- "Bible Teaching in Nature" (McMillan).