Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-10-21
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Thou vlsitest the EARTH and waerest it; thou great
" ennches 1t with the river of God which is full of
water; thou preparest them corn when thou hast so
provided for it.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantlv: thou
seltlestthe tuHows thereof thou makest it soft with
showers; thou blessest the spring thereof.
ihon crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy
paths drop fainess,
They drop upon the pastures Of the wilderness, and
the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with focks,and the valleys
also are covered over with corn they shout for joys
they also sing-PSam XLIv.9-l3
How beautiful are the words of the inspired
poet, read in this month of haryests nearly three
thousand years after they were written! For
nearly three thousand years, since the royal
minstrel looked over the plains of Judea cover
ed with the bounty Of God, and broke forth into
this magnificent hymn of praise, has the earth
rolled on in her course, and the hmd of God
has blessed her and ali her children with seed
time and harvest, with Joy and abundance. The
very steadfastness of the Amghty's lberality,
flowing like a mighty ocean through the infinite
vast of the universe, makes his creatures forget
to wonder at its wonderfuness, to feel true
thanksgiving for its Unreasonable goodness
The sun rises and sets so surely the seasons run
on amid all their changes with such inimitable
truth, that we take as a matter of course that
which is amazing beyond all stretch of the mag
nation, and good beyond the widest expansion
of the noblest human heart
The poor man, with his half dozen children,
tolls and often dies under the vain labor of win
ning bread for them. God feeds his family of
countless myrlads swarming over the surface of
all his countless worlds and none know need but
through the tole5 or the cruelty of their fellows.
God pours his light from innumerabe suns on
lnnumerable rejoicing planets; he waters them
every where In the fitting moment he ripens the
food OF globes and Of nations, and gives them
fair weather to garner it, and from age to age,
amid his endless creatures of endless forms and
powers, in the beauty and the sunshine and the
magnlicence Of nature, he seems to sing
throughout creation the glorious song Of his own
divine joy in the Immortality of his youth, in the
omuipotence of his nature in the eternity of his
patience, and the Astounding boundlessness of his
love.
What family hangs on his sustaining arm-
The life and souls Of infinite ages and Of count
less worlds! Let moments failure of his power
of his watchlulness, or Of his will to do good, oc-
cur, and what sweep of death and humiliation
tlIOuSll llIC Univ CTS HOW StdS NOulu reel,
planets EXPIRE and nations perish! But from
age to age no such catastrophe occurs, even in
the midst Of national crimes, and Of atheism that
denies the hand that made and feeds it; life
springs with power ever new, food springs up
as plentltully to sustain it, and sunshine and ioy
are poured over all from the invisible throne of
God as the poetry of the existence he has given
Ii there come seasons of death or of failure they
come but as warnings to proud and tyf mic
man. The potato is smitten, that nation may
not be oppressed forever; and the harvest is dim
inished, that the laws of mans unnatural ayarice
may be rent assunder, And then again the sun
Shines the rain falls aud the earth reioices in a
renewed beauty, and in a redoubled plenty.
1t is amid one Of these crises that we at this
moment stand, and hail the month of harvests
with unmingIed joy Never did the finger of
God demonstrate His beneicent will more per-
spCuously than at this moment. The nations
; have been warned and rebuked and again the
bounty Of Heaven overlows the earth in golden
pillows OF the ocean Of abundance Never was
there more seasonable season than this-ncyer
did such magnificent crops Of corn cover So
many teeming acres of the earths surface In
ne State Of America alone, we are told that
he hundred thousand acres Of corn are this wear
)wn more than in any former, FIR the English
lrket; and that, were the European crops all
nnIhllated America could from her superiority
nppy its wants But over all the plains Of Eng
md, and all the plains of the continent, such
arrests wave as never waved before, except in
he most prolific years God wills that all the
RI of man to check His bounty to create scare
ty, to establish dearness, to enteebe the hand Of
he aborer, and curse the table of the poor, shall
1e put to shame-that his creatures shall eat and
be glad, whether corn dealers or spectators live
Dr. die,
Nations, therefore, have fttingy rejoiced in
every century since the creation, in the Joyful
ness Of harvest 1t has been time of actiyit,
and of songs. Never was there generation
hat had more cause to put forth the reaping anC
rejoicing hands and sing so heartily as ours
Praise to God-the God Of harvess-and to hin
whose cattle are on thousand hills. Let US %
out and rejoice amid the sunshine and the whea
STOPPING to the sickle, and the barley to the
scythe, and in the certain assurance that the Ioa
never was cheaper than it shall be within the mex
six months, never the heart of labor any mor
strengthened with abundance
he Ran.e Of the Pulpit