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E not solicitous.’ This injunction does not forbid reasonable forethought, nor well-regulated work; but only anxiety and worry of mind.

'The life is more than the food, and the body more than the raiment.’ God, Who gave you life, and Who formed your body before you were able to take care of it, will not fail to give you the rest. He who has done the greater will not disdain to do the less.

'Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.’ Happy were these little animals — happy the flowers — a thousand times happy every one of these small creatures — could they but know their own happiness in being objects of God’s Fatherly care and receiving all things straight from His hands!