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HEREFORE I say to you, Be not solicitous for your life... consider the ravens, for they do not sow.'

In St Matthew ‘the birds of the air,’ in general, are spoken of. In St Luke, we are told of the raven: — one of the most voracious of animals, and yet without storehouse or provision; finding enough to feed upon though it neither sows nor digs. God supplies all that is needful: — ' Who giveth to the beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him,’ says the Psalmist. He hears their cry, though a hoarse and unpleasant one; and feeds them just as amply as He does the nightingale, or any bird with a softer and sweeter voice.