Botanists tell us that when the tree ceases to make new wood it
begins to die. Indeed, the only real live part of our northern
trees is the part just under the bark. It may be even rotten
and hollow on the inside, so long as the sap courses vigorously
on the exterior the tree lives, grows and is young. So the mind
begins to die when it loses its appetite for things new, when
the heavenly hunger for variety ceases. (Text.)--VYRNWY
MORGAN, “The Cambro-American Pulpit.”
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