He is thanking his Father in heaven for his goodness.

Do you say your prayer?

I say my prayer night and morning.

"Ask, and it shall be given you."--_Matthew 7:7_.

"For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers."--_I Peter 3:12_.

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sheep cows cover rain falls

eat for waters garden earth

Clouds cover the sky.

The rain falls.

The rain waters the earth.

The flowers in the garden are glad.

The red rose is glad.

The white lily is glad.

The green gra.s.s is glad.

The rain makes the gra.s.s grow.

The sheep and the cows eat the gra.s.s.

G.o.d gives the rain.

G.o.d makes the gra.s.s grow for the sheep and the cows.

"Praise ye the Lord; Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh the gra.s.s to grow upon the mountains."

_Psalms 147:8_.

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PLOWING IN PALESTINE Copyright by Underwood & Underwood and used by special permission

Very little advance has been made in methods of agriculture in Palestine since the early days of which the Bible tells. The plow is often still the crooked stick, sometimes strengthened by iron, but still very primitive. It is no wonder that crops are so poor and life is so hard under these conditions [End ill.u.s.tration]

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spring-time snow ice gone

robin blue-bird seeds help

The Spring-time has come.

The birds have come.

The blue-birds are flying in the air.

I see a robin in my garden.

I will go to my garden.

I will plant seeds in my garden.

The seeds will grow to be flowers.

I love to see them grow.

Have you a garden?

Do you see the birds in your garden?

What seeds do you plant in your garden?

G.o.d makes the flowers grow.

He gives the rain and the sun.

The rain and the sun help to make the flowers grow.

"Thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof."--_Psalms 65:10_

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summer warm cool woods who

brightly bees sing pick hum

Summer is here.

The birds sing in the trees.