3.—Pansies

Pansies are for thoughts. They are like Joseph’s coat, of many colors. They may be yellow, or white, or purple, or blue, or gold. You can have them growing, if you will, all the year round. And the more they are moved, the better they grow, and the richer their colors. You must pick their flowers as fast as they come, or you’ll get very few. They ask for a lot of care. If you forget them, they will become very plain-looking, not to say common-place.
It seems to me that God has written in the pansies, as plain as could be: “Think and remember, but above all remember to think.”
Stephenson was asked how he invented his locomotive? And his reply was, “By thinking, thinking, thinking about it.”
The Bible says that we shall grow like Jesus if we think about Him.
We are told, in one place, to think about all things that are lovely, so that we may grow lovely too.
“Remember Me,” said Jesus, because He knew that if we did we should be able to grow the best of flowers in that inner garden of ours, which He has given us to enjoy. For, do you know?—another name for Pansies is Heart’s-ease, and if you want to grow Heart’s-ease in your very own garden, you must go and get Forget-me-nots out of the Bible, and plant the Heart’s-ease right in the middle of the Forget-me-nots. Then it will grow.