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He's a man who gives for the love of giving; 'Tis Heaven's sweet way—high loving and living— The man whose wife in her heart calls "deary"— Ah, bless the Lord for Nathan O'Berry!

Photo by T. P. Robinson, Orlando, Fla.

THE BISHOP'S GARDEN

(Based on what was seen around the home of Bishop Cameron Mann, Orlando, Fla.)

"Come into my garden," said the Bishop unto me; 'Tis the greatest little garden that ever you may see. Behold a sturdy phalanx of the giant bamboo, Which defends the garden's side in valiant line and true, And yonder bunch of bamboo is the prouder Japanese, The equal in beauty of the trimmest of the trees.

"My delight is in the palm, the pride of sunny tropics, The tree in all Nature for the poet's varied topics; I here have them all but the gorgeous royal palm— King Frost is oft unfriendly to his majesty's balm.

"And consider, if you please, that rare Australian Oak, Standing there so lonely, like the greatest of the folk; And the other generous fellow, the noble camphor tree, Gives peace and health and hope to many a bird and me.