The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-10-12

without it, the manner Of its getting
seems, somehow, to turn it to curse.
I have read somewhere that it is sad
hour in mans history when he learns
the false lesson, that dollar is better
got in aoy other way than by earning
it, and I have the experience of those
who have lived where fortunes are
made in day that in almost every in
stance such fortupe has been curse
10 the man or his children. We are
apt to think it wo uld not DO so with
us, but I tell you there are certain laws
which God has stamped upon the world
aud certain rules of human life which
He has framed and given Us that peith-
er you nor can violate with impunltys
It is the money honestly, laboriously
earned that blesses not only the man
that earns it but his children after him
1T is tho reputation that crowns ear.
nest, persevering labor, that is worth
havins-it is the prosperity that comes
.: toll aud thought and prudence that
makes man CT town or county
rich with blessings which are better
than sudden growth, inflated values and
the "pride that goes before a fall )"
and although we, in our haste, may
count all these sixteen years of weary
waiting aud impatient labor as of little
worth, the coming iature, believe 10
my heart, will show to you and me that
they have been but the forming of
sound foundation upon which now,
with rapid growth, will spring up
city aod develop a country that We
shall feel proud to call our own.
I have said that it is law of our
being that labor is absolutely neces-
sary for our happiness. By labor, 1
mean the labor of the whole man, oil
the body aud Of the mind. The man
who tills the soil or tolls in the work
shops, who never thinks, IS always
poor farmer, poor mechanic and in
all that ennobles and exalts aud makes
men better and really happier--a poor
man. Some accident may possibly make
him rich in dollars, but he aever is and
meyer can be u manly man. The
man who tolls all day with his brain
alone, whose weary mind finds no re-
liet in physical labor, becomes wretch.
ed dvspeptic, who never knows the
luxury Ct healthy life and is aud al
ways will be poor man indeed, desti.
tute OF bouyancy and hope, and the
weariest of weary toilers on Gods green
earth. So that for human happiness
mental and physical labor is the indis-
pensable requisite; and the man
who has learned this lesson and with
stout heart adopted it as the principle
Of his life, tempering the rule Of labor
with relaxation Of necessary rest, has not
only taken the safest and s,irest road to
all that IS desirable in results, but also
The nearest path to earthly happiness.
Is this the reason that mans first home
was in garden, and his FIST labor to
dress and keep it?" So that although,
by disobedience he was banished from
that home where soork aoas pleasure
and for the reason Of his sin the
earth itself was Gu rsed with its tenden-
cy to evil productions instead of good,
al! his history of sinlessness and holi-
ness mi ht lead him back TO those pu :.
suit. in which this blending Of mental
and physical labor might give him still
the greatest happiness. Certain it is that
the best and wisest of all ages hav,
fund in Agriculture fit subject OF
Poetry and Pr Sc, and the world to-day
stands revolutiouized through Science
applied to Agriculture and the Meohan-
ic Arts. But Agriculture and Mechan-
ic Arts would to-day be where they were
in the beginning i mental labor had
not given a soul to matter. We draw
this lesson aud all the farmer or me
chanio needs is to apply it and he be-
comes wor thy of his manhood-th;nk
l know of no ambition more worth,
of mans highest powers than to be
numbered among earth's producers,
those who add yearly to tho worlds
wealth-whose gain is not another m.o's
loss and whose life is not a gathering
from others, but the creation, under
Gods laws, Of new products. His own
broad acres lie spread out around bin !;
they were untamed and unproduo-
tive when he took them, now they
bloom and blossom with rich harvests
of profits and 5eausy-the Home re.
minds of Paradise-the stocks and the
herds, the hay and the grain they eat,
and the ground that raised it are all
bis OVID; tue mind and the hand of the
Master Is upon it all and his farm is
a page of instruction in thrift aud skill.
full labor, of incentive to good works
spread outin enduring characters upon
the Earth; en- influence for good to all
the world who see it. He depends up
on no public opinion; he IS patronized
by no man and he can leave his chill;
dren HERITAGE Of wealth as enduring
as the world. Such farm ought to.
day to be the ambition of every boy ;
and how is it that the city aud not the
country is the goal Of our, boys hopes
and that cur girls regard farm and a
prison with almost equal horror.