Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-04-19
A Good Land

in Thanksgiving Sermon delivered at
West6eld N Y. thus discourses:
THE land of Canaan flowed with hon
ey so does ours. with the wild and do
mestica,cd. and with sweet cane. The
promised land flows also with milk. so
does ours, the butter and cheese "t Chau-
tauque alone is perhaps equal in amount.
to that in the hill country of Judea.--
Their stones were iroi.. and they dug
brass from the hills, our stones are iron
too, and our mountains yield copper and
all kinds of mineral wealth: The King
Of Israel sent to Ophir for gold in ships
on voyages of three years; while with
us common men pick up gold in the
streams and sands of our country, till sill
yer is no more account in our day than
it was in Jerusalem in the days of king
Solomon. The Eastern states the old
Granite states, the states sterile IN vine
wards and olives-'hase are full of pro-
ductirene as in their fisheries. their looms,
their furnaces, and various wooden man.
uIacnries. ahounding IN immense har-
vests of handIcrafi. and that of all SORTS
In the reign of King Saul there was no
smith fnun throughout his whole do
mlninns hut the israeliies went down 10
| he Phllistlnes To sharpen every man his
share, and his coulter, and his axe. and
his mattock. Bur we need no. 20 abroad
10 sharpen ours; for the i.ninanse grind
stones roll within sound of US, aud we
can he,e IN Westield In one week, and
male 10 order, cutting materials enough
., hr" in peices all The Philisfine in
eae day, and the Amalekites also. with
.igag heIr King. In Greenfield. Massa-
/ cilu-ettS. from two 10 three hundred
! i zen knives and forks, equal to those
a.; Sheffield, .re made, pul up, AMI sent
oil ever. day, Sundays excepted by
he railroad cars, to different para, OF the
| Union. and orders are received tar Them
t,lrr than tie establishments can supply
them. This is one oi the many insan.
crs, on which to I,ar'icu arlZe wau Il be
impossible as well as riappropri,Ee 10
! this time aud place, which allow us only
10 say that the products of our sol and
mechanical industry are like the great
and wide sea, in which are small and
great beasts aud fishes innunerahle-
there 60 the ships; there is that lesialhan
God made to play therein. We have
heard the renown oi the cedars ot Leba-
non and the oaks of Bashan--all oi
which in the prime of their days would
have been only decent avenue shade
or porlico to illimitable and everlasting for
ess of this country, and when The for
| esis fail, where are those endless beds of
coal in the bosom of mother earth, to
warm her children! and when all ceases
To flow in the medicinal fountains, the
| Belhesdas which bless us without being
troubled by other than terrestrial angels!
and when will the end be OF The eiherial
oil which comes from beneath the soil to
illuminate the stores aud lighthouses!
and where shall be the limit of the gran
i,e and marble palaces cut from the noun
tains. and who knows the number OF
cities to spring up as by enchantment, as
Lawrence and Lowell have done, and The
number of sails to whiten our waters, and
the STEAMBOATS, which shall yet disquiei
and vex them. till their patience has had
! its perfect work, When we think of the
producrivenes of this land in all manner
of stores the extravaganza of the Orien-
ials in lading five men with one cluster
Of Canaan's grapes and placing five men
in the shell OF one OF Canaan's pomegran-
a,e's ceases almost with us to be hy per-
| bole and beromesa a faithful symbol of
our ier,ility--a sign of the imes-for in
prolucti reness God has given us II good
land IN this respect lie hath not dealt So
with an. nation; praise ye the Lord. y