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The Ministry of Health and Healing
Beautiful Surroundings
God loves the beautiful. He has clothed the earth and the heavens
with beauty, and with a Father’s joy He watches the delight of His
children in the things that He has made. He desires us to surround
our homes with the beauty of natural things.
Nearly all dwellers in the country, however poor, could have
around their homes a grassy lawn, a few shade trees, flowering
shrubbery, or fragrant blossoms. And these things, far more than any
artificial adorning, will minister to the happiness of the household.
They will bring into the home life a softening, refining influence,
strengthening the love of nature and drawing the members of the
household nearer to one another and to God.
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