Thirty-fourth Day
What God does for the generality of plants and animals: We are to count ourselves as His favourite flock. — Luke xii. 22, 24, 29, seq.
'THEREFORE I say to you, Be not solicitous for your life... consider the ravens, for they do not sow.'
In St Matthew ‘the birds of the air,’ [1] in general, are spoken of. In St Luke, we are told of the raven: — one of the most voracious of animals, and yet without storehouse or provision; finding enough to feed upon though it neither sows nor digs. God supplies all that is needful: — ' Who giveth to the beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him,’ says the Psalmist. [2] He hears their cry, though a hoarse and unpleasant one; and feeds them just as amply as He does the nightingale, or any bird with a softer and sweeter voice.
