Arizona citizen., 1872-02-24
ECHOES FROM "GOD'S COUN-
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The Climate Again - The Godiy Character of Real Estate, etc. 1.-The Moral Thermometer Gen. erally-.POlitical PaStlmes, etc.

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 WOOSTER (Ohio), Feb. 1, 1872.
 I said this latitude along the great lakes had the most provoking climate in the world--meaning that it was the most changeable. West of the rocky divide. we can tell six months ahead, you know, just about what the weather will be, hence the increased aggrava- tion hereaways to one who has been the rounds. Old Gregory Summer field" with his homeopathic pill, could have succeeded in setting the elements by the ears to the end of putting an end to the world itself, had he started in over here; for anybody can go out on the porch at night to spit, and per haps be the means of throwing the whole atmospheric outfit into series of spasms forthwith. It has been spit ting snow for over 2I months now, and only within the past week or ten days has there been passable sleighing ing at any time. Our coldest day C degrees below zero) occurred some weeks since, but the mercury has been below that mark every day now for about 8 week. I will say, however, that the present Winter has been more even tempered than usual, even if 1t has been unusually cold most of the time. The roads have been quite good with but a few days exceptions, and this more than satisfies your honest farmer, merchant, "green grocery man, and the majority. According to J. Billings, "the honest farmer is the "noblest work of God he (the farmer) "gets up at in the morning, burns "half a pound of wood and cord of candles, and then goes out and wor- cries the geese and stirs up the hogs. While waiting for shave in a shop round the corner 'tother day, 1 over heard 8 religious discussion between two old farmers, one of whom not having the fear of the church in sight, said that in this neighborhood, "land was God, and money Christ" 1 want ed to ask whether the Holy Ghost wasn't "a little more land" for the aim of life with these old farmers seems to be to buy up all the land ad- joining them, for fear the original quarter section, more or less, might not be enough for funeral purposes. You know it as we'll known saying over the mountains among the honest m,ners-that is, they have always all luded to the place of their childhood, etc., as "God's country" and as the great majority originated in this sort of society, where the aim of the aver age parent is to drive the child to church so many times week, rain or shine, night or day, cold or wet, tired or hungry, until that child comes to curse the Father, Son and H. G. with all the viger of a youth of average spirit. But there has been a great letting up on the zero standard of worship during the past twenty years, dear Tom," since "you and 1 were boys" To dispose of this idea of the change in an epigram. as it were, Puritanical New England pro duced Jim Fisk, who had no fear of fire and birthstone when he told hls old partner Gould" Old boy, I guess I'm going myself where the woodbine twineth." Yes, the theological ther- mometer shows more temperate ten- dencies all over the land-and per- haps Jess temperance otherwise. Yet the building of new churches goes on apace, and their dedication is chief theme of gossip and anticipation still. Neat churches and cemeteries may have impressed the youth of the hon. est miner with his idea of Gods country" but his later life is but sorry example of the precept about training child up in the way it should go. I sometimes think that the mountains do more to impress one with the greatness and goodness of God, than all the level country how ever civilized. Hence perhaps the comparatively small amount of secta- rian prejudice west of the continental
 backbone In Arizona, for instance,
 where most every man is inferred with L