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will have sunshine, you will be happy.

There is another thing which the flowers say to us--"Be sweet." There
is nothing so delicious as to go into a flower garden after a warm
shower, and to smell the sweet scents. Well, God has sent you into the
garden of this world to be sweet like the flowers. How can you be
sweet? You can be sweet-tempered, sweet-mannered, sweet-spoken.
Sometimes you hear people say that someone has a sweet face. Now that
need not mean a pretty face; a person may be pretty, and yet not sweet.
Those who are sweet-tempered show it in their faces. You know how a
bunch of flowers in a room makes it sweet and wholesome. Now every
good child in a home, or a school, is like a nosegay of blossoms,
making the place sweet and wholesome; and every bad, vicious, unruly,
child is like the smell which comes from poisoned water. When I used
to visit the sailors in their ships to talk to them about God, I used
to say to them, "Now I want one of you men to be a little pinch of salt
in this ship, I want you to keep things sweet. Who will be the little
pinch of salt?" You understand what I mean, children? I wanted a good
man, who prayed, and read his Bible, to help the others, to try and
stop bad talking, to keep things sweet, as salt does. Well, I want
each of you children to be God's sweet flower, and to try to make your
home sweet by your gentleness, your good temper, your love. Some
children are regular stinging nettles in a home, or a school. They
always make people uncomfortable. They sting with their tongues, and
they sting with their looks and their tempers. Make up your minds,
dear little ones, to be, by God's help, sweet flowers, not stinging
nettles.

And now, before I leave you, let us think what one special flower
teaches us. I told you that there is such a thing as the language of
flowers, that is, that each flower has its special meaning. Well, what
does the rose say? Surely the rose says, "love one another!" Do you
know who it is who loves us best, and who has done most for us? Our
Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, and it is for that reason, I think, that He is
called in the Bible a Rose,--the Rose of Sharon. Whenever you see a
rose, think of Jesus, the Rose of Sharon, and remember what He says to
you, "Little children, love one another." I will tell you a story
about a rose. A little brother and sister lived in a crowded court in
a great city. It was a wretched, dirty, ugly, place