Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-01
The Farmer, Life.


The Farmer, in an especial manner has the
great volume of Nature always open before
him, and always giving off sublime lessons of
life and of all its harmonious reality. Why
is II he is so often blind 10 lis glorious char
acters of living truth, abiding faith, and joy
Gus hope? Why should he be deaf TO all the
soul inspiring melody that trembles on every
leafiet, whispers in every breeze, and pervades
all the universe Of God in one grand eternal
song of praise? How can he constantly move
among the handiwork of the Creator and not
discover the evidences of his Almighty Pow
er, Infinite Wisdom and unbounded Goodness?
How can he walk on Gods earth, breathe His
air and rest his whole life upon the hollow of
His hand, and not know it? How can he
daily offer formal prayers TO an unknown Del
ty who dwells afar, beyond all suns and stars,
enveloped in thick cloud of mpenetrable
mystery, when the Almighty stands before
him, nay, dwells within and all around him,
and uphods and gives life to every particle
of matter, whether it be of man or world p
Why should he look III the distance for the
Creator, when that Creators arm is under
meath and around him? Why ask for the
ocean when that ocean bears him up?
A Spiritual life is True life, whether in
this world or in the world TO come. All hap
piness, here and hereafter, results from know
ing and obeying the PHYSICAL mental, and
moral laws of the Creator; and many ofthese
can only be spiritually obeyed, and all are spir-
itually recognized. Hence, a spiritual life is
a true life. Such a life, The scenes which sur
round the Farmer seem adapted to draw FORTH
He may, and many do, from infancy, become
SO accustomed TO these scenes that the glory
which dwells therein is overlooked He may
become so stepped and hardened in the inor-
dlnate love of worldly affairs, that the ten
thousand objects Of beauty about him, fail
to penetrate his heart Thus the parent should
not mould the plastic mind of his child; and
especially the Farmer, as he leads his child
rem forth among his lowing herds and waving
grain, and leafy forests, should teach them
that the cattle on thousand hills are the
Lords, and that the great Creator may be
t spiritually discerned in every blade that bends
beneath the morning dew, and in every fow-
er that bushes with the morning light.
Then shall his children come to place a
just estimate upon the scenes of life and the
beauties of the world about them Then shall
they labor diligently and trustingly for the
! things necessary for the sustenance of their
physical systems inasmuch as they know
they are obeying physical laws Which are nee
essary to health and then shall they cultivate
in Heavens own light, their mental and NOR
al powers, inasmuch as they know that there
on all happiness and goodness depend. Then,
as they advance in years, and 60 forth to till
the earth, the falling rain, the silent dew, and
glorious sunlight, will not speak to them only
of bounteous crops and heaps of gold but of
the blessings of all-pervading Goodness,
whereby they are enabled to live and hold
communion with the Father OF Spirits Then
shall their spirits become in harmony with the
Spirit of universal Deity and in the smiling
6ells, the waving woods, the lowing herds,
the golden grain, the ripping brooks, the
widespread earth and starry heavens, shall
read in characters of living light, ''HERE
DWELL ALMIGHTY Power, INFINITE WIS
DOM, AND BoUNDLEss LOVE . and hear from
them voice, sweet as from angels lips, whis-
pering, to the weary spirit, ofFAIrH and HOPE
and HAVEN yoming Co. Mirror