The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-16

to puzzle him, when he said, "Cabell,
my father and 1 spent several sum-
mers in England. The parks there
are SO exquisitely% beautiful, that | al
ways thought Of Eden in wandering
through them. You cannot realize
Millions description of Paradise until
you see them. A roted American
traveller, who received much atten-
ton from the English mobiles preferred
their parks to their pleasure grounds.
He said: ''There is a quiet pastoral
beauty, a sp%aciousness of dignity, and
a simple feeling Of nature about them,
which no highly decorated pleasure
grounds or garden scenery can APP
proach, as the continual surrounding
of a country residence. The English
park is, in fact, the poetical .dea Of
Arcadia, a sort Of ideal nature ;-sOf
tened, refined and ennobled, without
being made to lsOk artificial" DIR.
B. who, you know, with all his cul-
ture can ask a direct question with as
much s~ang.jroid as any Yankee, asked
the Earl of c.. which he priced most,
his princely mansion, or his ancestral
acres. The Earl replied. "How little
you know of E~ngli~hmen, to ask a
question like that. l would not part
with my land for a dozen such houses:
in fact, l would rather live here
without any house at all, than in a
royal palace anywhere else" This re-
mark set me to thinking. Suppose
the whole earth were like the park Of
tue Earl Of G.. and no houses in it.
And suppose every man in the world
had an opportunity of becoming as
learned and pious as the Earl of G..
But instead of useless trees in our
parks, we would have only those bear
ing both the Edenic characteristics,
goodness for food and pleasantness
to the sight" And suppose instead of
books, we had only schools where the
teaching were entirely DIAL. In short,
suppose we should live like the Ke-
Mites"
"Ah, C~hesney," l replied, 't;t is very
easy to pull down a house, but it is
not so easy to build one. Our civil
zation has cost untold labor, blood
and treasure. You say pull it down
and build anew upon its ruins. Hadn't
we young aspirapts for fame better
let we'll enough alone"
YES" he replied, 81 would gladly
let well enough alone, but it isn't well
enough. 1t is infinitely bad enough,
as the statistics of the world prove.
Millions of ignorant, degraded, human
beings, and a small minority of cult
waited, upright people. l will read
you this Il sentence from the Lon
don Quarterly of January, 1872 THE
condition of the proletariat (penniless
people) is an o%pprobrium to half the
countries in Europe, and more espe-
cially to our own. Millions Of them
lead a life which intelligent beings
should not consent to liye and exist in
a condition of struggle and wretched-
ness which makes existence a burden
and not a boom" Our Savior wrought
nearly all of his wonderful miracles
for the relief of physical suffering.
And we are expressly told that he who
does not relieve his suffering brother
when he can, the Glove of God dwell
leth not liz him. If you and l fail to
do all we can to improve the condition
of our race, we are guilty men. The
Bible points out the way to a higher
and noble civilization. To attain it,
the world must become Christianized.
1t is the only way-faith in Christ is
the life which alone can ~vitalize our
deadened energies. This spiritual life
is to us what the vegetable life is to
the tree. Without it, no growth can
be made, no leaves, no blossoms, no
fruit can be borne. 1t is a lead and
useless thing"
"But, my friend, even if you could
convince the community Of the truth
Of your ideas, I do not see how we
would ever set about carrying them
out"
by simply enforcing the Bible
laws" he replied. ''The laws of the
Bible have been preached in u
churches fol nearly two thousand
years" said I.
But not in our law schoo,s:-not
in our courts of justice, not in onr
legislatures, not in our medical and
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