Yet is that variety perfectly consistent with their essential unity of nature in the vegetable kingdom, to which they all equally belong.
In another particular they likewise resemble.

They both die a natural death.

The Lord ever preserves "a seed to serve him," from generation to generation; for as one disappears, another springs up to supply his place.

But "it is appointed unto all men once to die."-- Man "cometh forth like a flower and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."-- "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." In the midst of such diversity of Christian characters there is much to love and admire.