The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-31

The various parts OF the unnum-
bered mechanisms of this vast uni
verse call for various tastes, talents
and grades among those who were
intended by an all-wise Providence
to develop it's resources and shape
it's destiny. 1t is necessary that
there should be builder to execute
as we'll as an architect to plan and
that there should be man to mix
and carry the mortar as well as the
skilled workman to lay the bricks
and complete the building. 1t is as
necessary that there should be pa
tients in need as we'll as doctors to
rescribe-clents to protect and de-
fend as well as LAWYERS to plead and
advise. audiences to listen as well
as preachers to preach-pupils to
learn as well as teachers to instruct
It is as necessary that there should
he I'll grades of common laborers rs
it is that there should be artisans
and skilled mechanics in all the
various departments of the arts and
SClenCcS. Anu ~ - tpooiuCS'H nv
eesary that there SHOULD be farmer7
as the foundation and support of a.
these different divisions and grades
of human existence. They all-high
and low-rich and poor-wise or
simple-had their origin from
Mother Earth and from her bosom
they must all draw the sustenanc
which maintains md fits them for
their various duties and avocations
The farmer. then, Is the most i'm
portant of all tie inhabitants 81
earth. without his products thu
wonderful marts Of trade and com.
merce would be forced to abandon
ment. and the world would AGAR
lapse into primitive barbarism
How proud then ought we, as farr'-
ers, to feel when we reflect upon TIE
Importance of our calling. 1t seem
To me that we ought to feel that w
are the chosen people OF God, anf
from due serea of reverence an
thankfulness to Him we ought II
prosecute our ceiling to its mce
successful issuos. Bue God in h
infinite wisdom hos implanted in th'
human breast d'sferent tastes, to-
ents. desires end aspirations. an
how glad we ought to be that He dif
So. If we had all been alike-ha'
the same tastes. this world woulC
have been like fine tooth comh
We would I'll have worn clotbe'
aliko. huilt houses alike and on gen
eral principles been like bushe
of white beans with no distinguish
tastes then every man would have
fallen in love with one woman am
what connection and row tina
would have promulgated. Ever.
other woman would have been NOR
tally jealous and this woman would
probably have been poisoned out 0
pure jealousy and war among tn
men would pr0bably have continue
until the whole sex was annihilated
Then what an array of old maid
there would have been left
But thanks he to Him, He did no
50 decree His wisdom is perfect
and His arrangements for our affair
and our intere SITS are the very best
He has given rs the land and we ar
free to choose the proper course 70
its occupancy. Save your none.
and buy farm" is an old, old say
ing. and | believe is as good or bet
ter advice to the young man toda.
as it was when it was promulgated
in the dim and distant past II
these days aud in fact within tn
memory of TIE older people presc n
farming was a hard and toilsome Ia
hor 1t required strength and en-
durance as we'll as talent and grit
Almost everything had to be don
with muscular force, and it is III
tie wonder that the avocation We
more or less stunned by the aggres
sive boys and girls, and believ
that IL was the unfailing wisdom O
Divine Providence that thus decreed
Otherwise from whence would hav
come the wonderful achievements II
trade and commerce, i'm the arts an,
sciences which have originated from