The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-11-26

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walk in my statutes, and keep my com
: mandments, and do them, then will
give you rain in due season, and th
e land shall yield her increase, and tn
trees of the field shall yield thei
fruit" And in spirit and harmon
with this promise is that of Him VIII
!. spake in these last times to every ma
Ito every nation, "Seek ye first th
kingdom of God and His righteous
ness, and all these things shall be add
ed unto you" An abundant yield 0
the field has an importance in tn
prosperity Of nation almost beyon'
computation. 1t has a silent mi ghti
ness in the affairs Of men more pOten
thar other earthly blessing. Thos'
little grains, east from the hand c
the soWer, falling quietly into th'
Ifurrow, silently terminating and grow
ing under the influence Of rain-dropi
and sun-beams, have a power OF ac
knowledged and almost incalculablC
greatness. Gathered, in abundance
in the granaries of a nation, they pos.
isess influences wide aud deep--almOsi
immeasurable A bountiful harvest
gives vitality TO all the energies of a
nation. 1t is the motive power Oi
Its vast machinery. Il is a force
in nature, from natures God, that
gives an Impetus to everything else.
It imparts life to every important en-
torprise. 1t gives perpetual, busy
hum to the wheels of the manufacturer
-pours its telling life down through
all the avenues of trade, and fills rivers
and lakes and seas with a nations
commerce. Every individual and
general interest is estimated in the
light fand depends for success on the
increase of the field. So interviewer
is it with human affairs, that individ-
ual plans are conditioned on it, legis-
lative action is regulated by it, fami>
lies and communities, states and ma
tiOns based upon it their prosperity
and happiness.
When, therefore, the labor of the
husbandman has been prospered, when
seed time and harvest have been pro-
pitious, when the fruit Of the land
fills the store-houses of the nation,
there is a confidence and joy and
gladness inspired which no other
temporal blessing can produces
happiness and prosperity no other
earthly good can give; and CRATE
full people, with the spirit of the
PsaImist, with delight, obey the words
"Enter into his gates with thanks
giving and into his courts with
praise" Another prominent benefit
in the prosperity of people is,
2. Protection from PestiLence. If
plenty is a great good, pestilence is a
great evil. 81 will consume them by
pestilence" was a divine threatening,
burdened with a national affliction, ,in>
tensely fearful. 1t was the gathering
and execution of Gods wrath to 81
lently and quickly blot out nation.
1t is destroyer''that walketh in dark
ness"--that wasteth at noOn-day.--
Mysterious in its origin, battling the
skill of TIE wise, mOcking at all rem
sdies, it stalks the earth the great
scourge of nation. 1t paralyzes its
best energies, stops all its on-goings
to greatness and grandeur and glory.
1t locks the wheels of national in
dustry. In a very little while it de-
populates cities and towns, and makes
the once stirring marts as gloomy and
silent as the grave. When its dark
wing stretches over the sunny plains
and fertile fields, ,gladdened with gold
en- grain, over the broad rivers and
lakes, plOughed with vessels laden
with millions of commerce-When its
murky shadow falls on the thorough
fares, the teeming capitals, the crowd
ed and jostling ways of business,
when it goes stealthily, though ex-
pected, into mansions and novels,
along paved and swept avenues,
through lanes and alleys of mud and
filth, selecting as its victims the aged
and young, rich and poor, the robust
and weak-it is then, o! it is then,
that if we listen, we can hear the sad
wailings of nation passing under the
rod. The work of pestilence is death
horrid death. 1t has no
other mission than this.
And what makes it an evil SO bit
ter, SO dreaded and appalling is the
speedy and shocking manner in which
its victims are hurried out Of sight.
In this it is worse than famine
worse than the horrors of war. One
moment it strikes with fatal, uner-
ring stroke; the next, the father, the
mother, the wife, the husband, orI
sister, or brother, are gone to the
grave. Strange, and very often rude,
hands lay the once lovely form in
the rough ungainly cefin, hurry it
away without ceremony or care, and
cast it into the grave. No kind and
final caresses of bereaved hearts can
be given. Last looks, if taken at
all, must be quick. No going in 81
lent, measured, reverent step to the
tomb. No ministrations in holy
things, giving comfort to stricken,
weeping hearts. All, all must be
hurried-must be quickly done. 1t
may shock the tender sensibilities,
it may do violence to already lacera-
ted hearts, it may make loving spir-
its shudder, and ever after, awaken
painful memories of the last hours
of departed ones. But what does all
this signify? Is it not the horrid
work of the unrelenting, Implying
pestilence, the appalling scOurge of
nations
But when God has protected a
people from this "noisesome" curse
as He has done Us during the year;
as He has, with an outstretched
arm, defended our nation and homes
and families, all our interests, from
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