Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-18
DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
FARMING A GOSPEL TYPEg THE
SUBJECT or TtE TEXT.

/ Words to Christian Workers Pillow
BeepP'-The Reward os Perseverance,.
/ LEBANON, Pa, Aug. II The American
| Farmers encampment ~ Mount GretH6,
/ near this city, today liste led attentigely TO
I a remarkable discourse b. the great Brook
/ Ign preacher, Rev. r. d. Witt Talnaaes,
who arrived here yesterday from Piedmont.
| Chautauqua, Ga, where he spoke on
/ Wednesday last. The subject was one
| peculiarly suited Co the vast audience, be-
ing on Farming Gospel Type" Kings
4 xix, 10: Elisha, the son of 5haphat, who was
I blowing with twelve yoke Of oxen before
| him, and he with the twelfth.
Representatives of tie great farmers
associations from all parts Of the country
are at the encampment preparations for
which have been going on for months in
advance The surrouncin ing denscly popu'
lated counties of Pennsylvania are also
fully represented. Today's services were
held in the open air. An immense choir
from the churches of Lebanon led the
music
Rev. DR.. Talmage spoke as follows:
Farmers of Americal Accept my salu-
tation. Our text puts Is down into the
plow's furrow, where MANY of us have been
before. My boyhood passed on farm aud
my father former, your style of life is
familiar to me. One of my earliest recol-
lections is that Of my father coming in
from the hot harvest field exhausted, the
perspiratioD streaming from his forehead
and chin and fainting On the doorsill and
my mother iesnscitatinE him, until seeing
the alarm Of the household he said: Don't
be frightened. got Il title tired and the
sun was hot, but | am all right now. I"
And ! remember mother seated at the
table, often saying, "Well, l am too tired
to eatP The fact is that | do not think
the old folks got thoroughly rested until
they lay down in the graveyard back Of
Somerville to take the last sleep.
THE FARMERS INDEPENDENCE.
Office seekers go through the land an6
they stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers the story about the indie
pendent life of farmer, giving fattery
where they ought to give sympathy. In
dependent of whatp No class of people in
this country have it harder than farmers.
independent of whatP OF the curculio that
stings the peach treesp of the rust in the
wheat2 of the long rain with the rye DOWN.
Independent of the grnsshopperp of the To-
cust2 Of the army wOrmY of the potato
bug? Independent Of the drought that
burns up the harvest? Independent of the
COW with the hollow horn? or the sheep
with the foot rot2 or the pet horse with a
nail in his hoofS Independent of the cold
that freezes out the winter grainY Inde-
pendent of the snowbink out Of which he
must shovel himself? Independent of the
cold Iar "a han ,D gtanIc / Ia hinfr hic
numbed fingers around his body to keep
them from being frostedY Independent of
the frozen ears and the frozen feet? hide
pendent of whatP Fancy farmers who
have made their fort unes in the city and
go out in the country to build houses
with all the modern improvements, and
make farming luxury, may not need
any solace; but the yeomanry who get
their living out of the soil, and who that
way have to clothe I'll cir families and edu-
cate their children and pay their taxes
and meet their int crest on mortgaged
farms such men finl II terrific struggle.
And my hope is that this great National
Farmers CnCampmei,t may do something
toward lifting the burdens of the agricul-
turists. Yes, we we're nearly all of us
born in the country We dropped corn in
the hill, and went on Saturday to the mill.
tying the grist in the center of the sack 50
flint the contents on either side of the
horse balanced each other, and drove the
cattle afcd, our bare feet wet with the
dow md rode tbc b,o.sas with tho boltcr
to thc brook until wa fell off and buntad
the NOV for nests until the feathered oc
cupauts went cackl ny away. SO we all
u,dnrs+.nd rustic ,Ilusions Tho piblo 10
r,,l IF thon, In CIrist,a carmen IN tha
mount vnu sna the r,,lI blown lilies md the
,,lo..,, L,cl, of th. c,nu,,s wilma, M II ains
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and Isaiah find in country life n source NJ
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