Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-21
Religious.
SERVING ONES GENERATION.

Whether we will or not, we live for 9TH
ers, and the race, not ourselves, reaps the
chief benefit of our labors. The higher we
rise in the scale of intelligence and morality
the more abundant are our tolls, the more
wearing our responsibilities. The man who
carries the hod or rolls the barrow all day
for couple OF dollars, has only to repair the
waste of muscular tissue, and is ready for
another ten hours work. He who projects
great lines of travel, vast commercial enter
prises, mighty social reforms, receives greater
recompense bnt how much more fuel Of all
sorts, physical, intellectual, spiritual, does he
require to keep his machinery 10 high work.
ing condition. Both alike in their spheres
serve their generation--both are alike indis-
pensable TO society.
There is in this world vast amount Of
drudgery for somebody to do; in fact the
most of us spend the greater part Of our
lives in doing drudgery, and it is needless to
say that we don't particularly enjoy 1t.
When one has prepared three times three
hundred and sixty-6ve meals from January
TO December, swept a half dozen rooms every
day for the same length of time, aud gone
through the usual routine of lamp-trimming,
the various cleansing processes, the endless
mending aud making for family, the novel;
ty Of the thing is pretty well worn out
That, however, makes no difference; we've
got the same thing to 10 over and over again
just as though it were inexpressibly delight
full, and in doing it we are serving our gen.
GRAFTON.
What a farce life is" said friend now
sleeping under the snow, her work all done,
as ours will be by aud by. "What farce
life is sweeping and busting, and cooking
and eating, and sleeping and sewing, year in
and year out, aud nothing to show for it all
at the end ~ Nothing to show? Is 1T nothing
by ministries such as these to provide health
lu, pleasant, cheerful homes? Is it nothing
to raise sons and daughters to bless the world
by their example and labor, and be final heirs
of endless life? All that is what we do not
always think of. Professor Tyndal was
once little prattling boy like the one at
your knee, my friend he must have been a
very inquisitive, enterprising, irrtpressblc
juvenile; was it nothing to provide him
playthings, keep him well clothed and fed,
and surround him with an atmosphere in
which his faculties could unfold most happi'
ly2 Did not his mother serve her generation
in thus rearing son, and are not you and
trying to do the same thing? That lift:
drudgery into something admirable.
A high motive will ennoble and dignity
the meanest toll. Even cup Of cold water
given in the name of disciple shall not lose
its reward. This consciousness Of a worthy
motive is more needed by the aboring elias.
than by those of higher rank, for the recon-
pense OF their toll is meager. The digger o
iron aud copper ore, the coal miner, tn,
hedger and dtcher, the hewers OF wood, ant
drawers Of water may feel, and should fee
that they in their labors, are helping tn,
race to subdue the earth" The lonely pi
oueer, as he looks upon the heavy prairie so,
turned by his toll and made TO produce foo,
for the nation, ought to enjoy the conscious
ness of having done good deed. Aud hi
wife, who keeps the hearthstone bright an,
CHEEKY, aud in the wilderness makes a happ,
home, is helping to make the crooked straigh
and the rough places smoothly y TrD
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