The figures on it show what you have taught us in our
pleasant school. As we have first of all been taught to sit at the
foot of the cross, and neither hope nor glory in anything else, we
have made that the foundation. Under the cross you have watered us
with the showers of divine instruction and prayers, that, like this
vine, we might entwine about it and bear pleasant fruit. From this
cross we learned, while yet in the bloom of life, like newly-opened
flowers, to join together in sweet friendship. Above this we have
placed a circle around the Holy Bible, that bright lamp of the Lord,
that will enlighten us like the sun if we follow its leading--that
well of living waters, which will cause us to flourish like the palm
tree. Thus will our leaf be ever green, and our fruit sweet till the
day when the mystery of love shall be revealed, and we dwell in the
mansions of the blest. There, joining with all the singers in
heavenly places, we shall receive harps and sing glory to our
heavenly King, who saved us from everlasting woe. There we shall
inherit crowns of gold, and, with myriads of the saints, cast them
down before the Lamb.
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