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across the fields to the distant hills clothed in their finest fall colors. They stand majestic, so protective that it is difficult to realize, that upon them sumher

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umn seems to hold a bit of sadness. It appears as a time of change, decay, and death. Yet with each chilling breeze of winter do we opt have the promise tfte spring will! Come?

Perhrps nrturc is trying hr teachus the' neccesity Jo# an occasional or seasonal rest. It, is demand^Qry that life be spaced with work antF rest. The old saying “All work and no play, makes jack a dull boy” is * -true. All work or all play will quickly become] monotinous. Even our appetites demand variety. Few individuals, wojuld .be content to make every meal one of spinach and chocolate cake. Certainly change in the |weather ?s another jwxy our Creator has provided to make life morie enjoyable.

There is a greater lesson and a deeper meaning we should learn ' from nature - pat is the lesson of rebirth. God would show to His children that there can be newness of life. The abundant crops which we have received would not have been outs without the yeilding to change. The Seed had to die to itself in order to give way to new life. To have remained as a seed would have produced failure and' tragic lbs*. With the passing of the old. hope is born in the coming of the new. ... T* everything there is n sea- , son, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 Having learned these tWo lessons from nature, let us he stilly and rest for a season. During this period of restoration,’ let us pot to

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