Section 10
because its life is filled with the tendency and activity of barking.
Turning from animal life to plant life, we may take fruit trees as another illustration of the fact that every life has a law. I am not very good at dis tinguishing one kind of fruit tree from another. However, it is easy to discern a tree by its fruit. An apple tree will, of course, bear apples, and an orange tree will bear oranges. What nonsense it would be to command the apple tree to bear oranges and the orange tree to bear apples! No one would ever be foolish enough to do this. An orange tree bears oranges, and an apple tree bears apples. An orange tree has the life of an orange tree, in which there is the law that functions in the bearing of oranges.
In like manner, there is no need to teach a carnation to bear carnation blossoms instead of cherry blossoms. In fact, there is no need even to teach it to blossom. If someone tried to teach a carnation to blossom and a carnation could speak, it would say, "Don't waste your time teach ing me to blossom. Simply leave me alone and let me grow. Eventually, I will blossom." Blossom ing comes from the law of the carnation life. All these examples show that every life has a law.
THREE LIVES AND THREE LAWS Because we Christians have three lives, we also