The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-26
A Thousand Years for a Breakfast

On a very cold wintry morning She boys,
Who had come to keep New-Years with
their uncle, came down to breakfast, the mo-
ment the bell rang. The winds howled over
the fields, murmored through the limbs OF the
bare trees, and where they could whistled
through the key hole. Every few moments
a heavy gust would beat against the old
house but it stood firm. It vas very pain
there would be no going out 10 play On that
day and II was just as plain that the boys
had come down to breakfast with sharp ap.
petites
Boys said the uncle, when all were seat
ed at the table, what were YOU disputing
about so early this morning Perhaps L
can help one or both Of you.
Why said John, about twelve years Of
ace, we we're wondering why God is so often
called Provitleuce.' Why should he have
such name ? said it was because he pro-
vides things, and James said that can't be
the reason because he also guards US, and
yet we don't call him Guardence
| You have both studied Latin p
\ little, uncle
/ What does pro radeo mean :
1t means to see before, does it not
Yes Now tell NE how long it has taken
to get this breakfast ready?
How long? Why sir it may be an hour.
Why it mas taken thousands Of years to
get this breakfast ready for your eating
Oh, uncle how can that be 2
Let us see what fish is that before you =?
I Salmon, sir,
Very well. lie probably was hatched
up some river in Greenland, several years
ago, and has been kept TO grow, till he was
4 large fish But it took years and years
lor the trees 10 grow out OF which the vessel
was built that went to Greenland after him.
That tea which your aunt is pouring out,
most likely, grew at the foot OF the hills in
China. hundreds of miles from the ship that
brought it here That coffee, many years
ago for | have had it in my keeping ten
years, grew in Java Q long while ago that
mutton cnop gre" in Canada, and the sleep
were driven to US here. That salt was made
from the waters of the ocean at one OF the
!, West India Islands, The wheat that our
; bread was made of, grew in Missouri That
, butter was made in Vermont That sugar
in your coffee, was made in the island Of
; Cuba. That pepper which sprinkle on my
, meat, grew in Ceylon.-Those cups We're
: made in France. That tin coffee pot had to
) be dug out OF the mines in England. That
cream is the grass and hay of our fields tur-
f ned into milk Now don't you see, my boys,
, how much time, and care and labor, and see
7 ing (proridere) it has cost, to get one COM
Portable breakfast ready fer my hungry neph-
eWs? God does all this be foresees, pro-
vides it all, brings all these things together,
: at the right time and the right place, and
thus he is called Providence, or the Fore
2 seer
But, UNCLE yau said it had taken thou
: sands Of years to get this breakfast ready,
5 We can't see that p
: What was our breakfast cooked with g
! Cooked with Why, with the fire, sir g
Yes and what was the fire made Of p
Made Of ooll.'
To be sure. And that coal was made
under the ground thousands of years ago +;
q provided for this very purpose. Aud thus
, God goes before US, years and ages before we
!, are born; foresees what we shall need, aad
, gets it all ready. This is providing-for
. seeing. And thus he is called Providence,
or tho Foreseer. Do you now understand
it?'
Thank you uncle, it is all plain now -
s S. Times.