2023-10-01 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ========================================================= I found this book in a little free library. I haven't read it before but i clearly remember the 1993 movie based on this book. Even though it is children's literature, i enjoyed reading it. It is a book about health, life, and human redeemability. Chapter 26: It's Mother ======================= > Praise God from whom all blessings flow, > Praise Him all creatures here below, > Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, > Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. > -- Doxology "It is a very nice song," he [Colin] said. "I like it. Perhaps it means just what I mean when I want to shout out that I am thankful to the Magic." He stopped and thought in a puzzled way. "Perhaps they are both the same thing. How can we know the exact names of everything?" "Do you believe in Magic?" asked Colin... "That I do, lad," she answered. "I never knowed it by that name but what does th' name matter? I warrant they call it a different name i' France an' a different one i' Germany. Th' same thing as set th' seeds swellin' an' th' sun shinin' made thee a well lad an' it's th' Good Thing. It isn't like us poor fools as think it matters if us is called out of our names. Th' Big Good Thing doesn't stop to worrit, bless thee. It goes on makin' worlds by th' million--worlds like us. Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it--an' call it what tha' likes..." "Th' Magic listened when tha' sung th' Doxology. It would ha' listened to anything tha'd sung. It was th' joy that mattered. Eh! lad, lad--what's names to th' Joy Maker," and she gave his shoulders a quick soft pat again. Chapter 27: In The Garden ========================= In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live. Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 detail: LOC: PZ7.B934 Se source: tags: ebook,fiction,outdoor title: The Secret Garden Tags ==== ebook fiction outdoor