I think you will like these verses which were repeated to me by an old friend who remembered having learnt them from his mother's lips, long ago. They seem just fit to close our chapter about the earth in its verdure and beauty. "All the world's a garden, God hath made it fair; Living trees and flowers He hath planted there. Rain and sunshine giving, All His goodness prove; There is nothing living But has felt His love. "Every home's a garden, Clustering side by side, Each to others yielding, Flow'rets should abide. Word or thought of anger Ne'er should enter there; Buds of loving kindness Opening everywhere. "Every school's a garden, Hedged and fenced around; Nothing vile or useless Should within, be found. Teachers are the gardeners, Sowing precious seed, Training up the tender plants, Plucking every weed. "Every heart's a garden; It should bring forth fruit; But foul weeds and briars In its soil have root. Envy, wrath, and hatred, Malice, strife, and pride, Lies and disobedience, And many more beside. "Cast them out, I pray, Lord, And supply in place Gentleness and goodness, Lovely plants and grace; Patience and longsuffering, Faith and hope and love-- These will bear transplanting To the world above." THE FOURTH DAY. SUN, MOON, AND STARS. "_When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained: what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?_"--PSALM viii. 3, 4. "_The day is Thine, the night also is Thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.... Thou hast made summer and winter._"--PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17. "_Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun._"--ECCLESIASTES xi. 7. "_One star differeth from another star in glory._"--1 CORIN. xv. 41. When we had got as far in our reading of the first chapter of Genesis as the fourteenth verse, we noticed that it is very like the third; for both verses begin with those wonderful words which none but God could say--"Let there be." But there is a great difference between the "light" of the third verse and the "lights" of verses fourteen and sixteen. The sun is called "the greater light," and the moon, which is so very much smaller, "the lesser light"; but in the language in which this part of the Bible was first written, these two lamps which give us light are called by a name which means, not the light itself, but that which holds it; not, as we might say, the candle which gives light as it burns but the candlestick in which it is set. Let us read again carefully what God has told us about His work on the FOURTH DAY, and I think we shall see, as we noticed in the chapter on "Light," that we are not told that it was upon that Day that the sun and moon were _created_.