St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-02
NeD England the Summer Resort of tho
Nation.

NeU England the Summer Resort of tho
The traveller through the hill country Of
New England feels that its use to the nation
is thing Of the past Many of the once
thrifty towns, famous for religious power,
for educational privileges, for social life, and
especially for sending out noble men and
women, are now struggling villages with
small and poorly supported churches, with
scarcely sufficient school privileges to pre-
pare the young people for the academy or
high school. The farms are poorly cultivated,
thin and worthless grasses, and stubborn and
prevailing weeds are taking the
place of the richer products that once -four
ished. The young men have gone, and the
farming is done by those who are growing
old; and the prospect seems to be that, in
few years the larger part of the farms will
be tenantess, and the country, so dear to
the hearts of the descendants of the Pilgrims,
will be q useless waste 1t seems provi-
Dental mistake that such noble population
as New England could once boast of should
be planted upon such coast and among
such rocky hills that must desert them and
leave the results of long toll TO depreciate in
value, anu SCuOOiS Anu Churches 10 QccllQe.
Yet God is wiser than men. Within few
years past there are limitations that a new
use is to be made of these beautiful uplands
They have bold and lofty hills lakes and
streams. They have the seashore and the
forest. They have the grand scenery and the
quiet retreat Our crowded cities and our
overworked population have created new
want The vacation for all classes of work.
from tho nation oil Y1rnci1opf IN,
the cash-boy, has come of late to be an es-
tablished thing. If the tendency to sum-
mer on these coasts and among these hills
increase as rapidly for the years to come as
it has done in few years past, New Eng
land will be none too large to accommodate
all who flock to it. 1t must furnish summer
residences for the rapidly increasing popula-
ton of our cities and the vast valley of the
Mississippi. 1t shares advantages with other
places of resort Its wide range for excur-
| sion, its delightful drives, its cool and invig
Grating summer climate and its freedom
from winged pests, make it superior to many
resorts. Then it has, what scarce any other
portion of the country can claim, the old as
sociations, dear to the children and grand
children of those who lived here when New
England was in its prime. twas thinly-
scattered but good homes in which to receive
those who come for retirement and Tecrea-
ton. Not far of are the cities and flourish
ing towns, and In easy reach are distin-
guished places of learning, while the whole
region centers about the intellectual focus Of
the nation. Let the New England farmer
shape his movements to meet the new turn
in affairs. Still more significantly is there
found a reason why the Christian people of
the land should not allow the weak churches
on these hills to die. Many of them have
their small congregations in the winter, have
their congregations largely increased by sum-
mer visitors. large share of these are
members in the city churches, and if they
find in their vacation season church privileges
and responsibility they win go back better fit
ted to work in the home church where they
spend the remaining six or eight months of
the year.