Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-01-22
you KNOW TITS OUR CREED.

The farmer sat in his easy chair, proppsd up with
pillows round;
Full many day had vanished since his feet had
touched the ground;
For ths rheumatic had " sat in,e as the kindly
neighbors said.
And his life had been ga hov'rin' twirt the Twin
an the dead.n
He looked upon the acres broad spread out before
his door,
Where placid sea Of golden grain awaited thrifty
store,
Where meek-eyed cattle quiet grazed in slipping
fields Of z cen,
And where tho stream went purling by the hill and
vale between.
The sun threw out his gladdest beams upon that
summer scene,
And flooded all the landscape with the glory of bis
sheen;
And through the open window where the zephyrs'
loves were said,
Came the music of the feathered choirs from branch
es overhead.
But there sadness in his heart and care was in
his lock
His anxious thought was written plain as in an open
book.
"where are the reapers, wife," he sad "to cut the
ready graini
"Ths neighbors all are busy now. and help can
not be had;
It's sorry plight; do declare 1t Is too mortal badl
I've struggled hard to lift the NOR t6sge on the place
you know;
And nov It seems as il the whole would have to CO.
You tell me of Providence that watches over all
And notices our human needs as well g the spar.
rows fall
IN not gainsay but II is true but sometimes seems
to me,
He passes oyer now and then. some folks like you
and me-"
" Ny DEAR" she said, in kind reply "the Lord will
not forget;
As for the grain that's in the field, there's room to
trust Him yet;
But IL We lose it, husband DEAR 1t is not quite SO
plain,
The loss of worldly store would not ia some way be
eur gain.
" A neighbor kind you've always been, and helpea
the sick and poor,
And neer a needy one has gone a hung ring from
your door;
And know you not the Lord has said, and says it
unto thee,
As ye have done 1t unto these. we've done 1t unto
megn
She stood before the open door, and looked adown
the way,
Where the lands were all shimmring in the splen-
der of the day.
And all at once she raised her hands in quick and
mute surprise,
At the strange and most unwonted sight that rose
before her eyes.
For up the road host of men came like an army
strong.
Aud over the fence into the field they poured,
sturdy throng,
With sickles, cradles, rakes and forks and at the
grain they went,
And silver CLEAN of swinging blades with golden
harvest blent.
score ofrsapers moving on, of swsths cut down
score,
And after them there followed on of binders tweaty
more:
Around and round the field they swept steady as
clock, -
While some were gathring up the sheaves, and
putting them in shock.
And ere the sun that day had SET the harvest work
was Ger,
Aud to the house the toilers marc he'd full fifty men
more.
" You we've given you lift" the leader spake
at length
And we calculate to keep it up till you have got
your strength.
81 We talked it over in the lodge, and all at once
agreed,
That taking hold we have done, would be broth
er's deed
committee we've appointed they will see to your
affairs,
And they'll do the best they're able to relieve you
of your cares
"W We've done no more than you have done, or than
we eught to do;
That's what we're bound together for--to pull each
other through.
creed
To help each other as we can whenever there is
need"
And when the brothers all had gone, and left the
two alone,
They bowed their hearts in thankfuness before the
Fathers throne;
And the trust that had been shaken by the hiding
Of His face,
Had stronger grown than ever through this token
of His grace.
poTosy Ian 4 1880 on,.x-