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The Basket of Flowers is a story of James and his daughter Mary. James is the landscape gardener of the king and he sincerely relishes tending for and planting flowers. He coaches his daughter Mary several values and moralities of being righteous through the plants and flowers. There came a time when, unexpectedly, Mary is wrongly suspected of theft, and she was penalized with death. Even though Mary encountered a lot of difficulties and sufferings, she comes to know God from what her father taught her, in God’s untimely love and forbearance, the dedication of praying for her adversaries, in thinking through her hurdles as an exultation, and genuine reconciliation. Christoph von Schmid was born on August 15, 1768 in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria and died on September 3, 1854 in Augsburg. He wrote children's stories and was a teacher. Many of his books are well recognized and interpreted into distinctivet vernaculars. His most famous story in the English-speaking countries is The Basket of Flowers or Das Blumenkörbchen. Christoph took up theology and was later ordained as priest. Thereafter, he served as assistant in many parishes until 1796, when he was positioned at the head of an enormous school in Thannhausen, where he taught for several years. From 1816 to 1826, he became the parish priest at Oberstadion in Württemberg. In 1826, Christoph was designated as a canon of the Augsburg Cathedral, where he died due to cholera at the age of 87. He wrote books for children, teaching Christian principles, soon after his appointment at the school in Thannhausen. His first book was a Bible history for children in 1801. His real reason for writing was to recompense his pupils after school by reading aloud his Godly books to them. He dedicated most of his life through writing stories mainly about the virtues of Christianity.

The Basket of Flowers CHAPTER I. THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER. The simple story which is told in this little book treats of things which happened a long time ago in a foreign country, where the manners and customs are widely different from our own. It is necessary to explain this at the beginning, because the reader will meet with incidents in the narrative which would otherwise seem strange and inconsistent. Two lessons which the story teaches, however, may be learned in all countries. The first is that the human heart has from the beginning been full of sin, producing, for the most part, evil fruit, which results in misery; and in the second place, that there is only one remedy for this state of the soul, the remedy of God's Holy Spirit, which, wherever it enters, produces the fruits of righteousness and perfect peace. It is because we believe that the study of these opposing principles as exhibited in the experience of others may be profitable to young readers, that the story of the Basket of Flowers is now presented. James Rode, who, with his daughter Mary, forms the subject of our tale, lived over one hundred years ago in the village of Eichbourg, in Germany. When he was very young his parents sent him to be trained as a gardener in the beautiful grounds of the Count of Eichbourg. James was a bright, intelligent lad, fond of work, and of an amiable disposition, and he soon made himself a favourite with the people among whom he associated. His happy genial disposition and his readiness to oblige endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. The secret of James' character lay deeper than mere disposition. He had early given his heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the amiable qualities which he now displayed were the fruits of the Holy Spirit which had been imp