Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged, and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases thus represent no casual "decoration." They are a constant work of art, expressing the consecrated thought of the artist creating perpetual beauty in the worship of God.
Thus last week in The Churchman (Episcopal) wrote Rev. Dr. Donald Bradshaw Aldrich of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. His remarks were by way of foreword to an article "Flowers on...
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