The Cross and the Garden (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Alas! It had never entered into his dream that the serenity of his garden would be broken by the raucous shouts of men, that its peace would be invaded with pain, that the crimson of his choicest flowers would be out-crimsoned by the blood of the most flower-like man he had ever seen.

For Joseph had never seen a life that reminded him so much of the flowers in his garden as the life of Jesus of Nazareth. It seemed almost too fair to be truly rooted in this murky and miry world. It seemed to belong to Heaven rather than to earth, it seemed like the promise of what a man ought to be rather than the revelation of what a man could really be. Joseph had watched this flower-like life through the years in Silence and reticence but with growing faith and devotion. When he saw it trampled down under the heels of men, he felt the same indignation, only deeper if possible, as if he had seen them trample down his flowers beneath their feet. In his indignation he was stung out of his reticence he rushed into the midst of the horror and said, Let Him lie among my flowers, He is more worthy to lie there than I. No one else thought of the garden that day but Joseph of Arima thaca who loved it. Long afterwards, when John was writing the story he remembered, and his face was lit Up with a smile as he wrote.

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