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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1843 Excerpt:... spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard: spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." Canticles, iv. 13-15. Very beautiful, I replied, and well remembered; but tell me who is it that is supposed to repeat this passage? She answered, Our Savior, sir, and he speaks it of his church. Then you imagine, I replied, that the garden enclosed is the true church, and all the plants therein are the people. Yes, sir, she said; those who love God are the plants growing in this garden, and some of them are tall and noble, like the cedar tree, and others are small and of less beauty. Some supply pleasant fruit; others are good only for shade. Some are very lovely to look at, and others fill the air with sweet ordors; but altogether they make the gardens very beautiful, and none are to be despised. And do you suppose, Aimee, I asked, that you yourself are one of the members of this garden? She hesitated a little, and at length said, I desire to be one, and I hope I am; but I know that my place, if I have a place in this happy garden, is a very low one, down in some very deep valley, and under shade and out of sight. I think I should not do so well if I were to be removed to the higher parts of the garden, and clothed with many colors, and made to be an object of admiration; for when I am praised I become vain, and take less delight in holy things than when I am not noticed. 1 was on the very point of commending the ideas of this little girl, when her last remark gave me a timely check, and I simply said, Apparently your parents too...