Consider the Lilies

“Consider the Lilies” was given to the church by Bessie Jean Fleming’s class in 1920. jean was a niece of Mrs. Wallace How Lee. She later taught in a Bible school in Seattle, helped in a tuberculosis hospital, and took a leave of absence to teach soldiers in Japan. Mrs. Fleming was a first cousin, once removed, of Mrs. Robert Moench and Beatrice Thompson. One of the examples that Jesus used with his disciples to illustrate trust in God was flowers. Look how the wild flowers grow; they don’t work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.” Luke 12:22-31; Matthew 6:25-34