Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-05-26
Providence

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meanings as any word in the English language
Someone fails put signal light trains collide
lot of people killed manned. The engineer IN a
lets the low the boiler blows and wrecks the
lives sacrificed addition to the other
losses and the ship a The city neglects to
pure drinking its inhabitants and of y
phod results Social diseasecarrier run at large and
lives ruined. half million die OF tubercu
year hold hands in horror and ascribe
all these disasters Providence when matter OF fact almost
every one of them should charged the of neg
with these disasters than
old had do with the potato market when he plant
patch potatoes and then expected Providence to hoe the
pick the bugs the cutvato spread the Paris green
and dig the potatoes that did rot grow because ey were chok
by of Toms negligence which he class
flied a mysterious Providence working agn him..
friend, Noah Webster, who acquired the habit of
saying things pretty well the point his popular book
known the Unabridged Dictionary that Providence the
preparing providing for the future prudence in
the management of ones concerns economy, rugaty And
that really such bad definition for odashoned man
like Noah who had idea that work good for and
kept himself reasonably busy in the preparation of his book
which words than other book in the English
language
Some of us either forgotten what
friend Noah said about Providence We have looked
something mysterious long that is hard to believe that
all il merely providing for the future by the
dent of affairs and the exercise of economy
and fgal There is nothing mysterious about that certain
y nnotng very poetic sentimental 1t to be large
question exercising ard cutivang plain mattero
fact common and perhaps that the reason that is
hard to understand, N M Es8 H0
So many things have occurred result of the
World War have heard much about billions and mil
ions applied governmental expenditures and appoprs
% and Of ten-doar day Jobs as applied to ourselves IN the
wild orgy money spending through which have just
that have think that that condition of things
niey, forgot all about that old
saygof Noahs that Providence the act of preparing
viding future" Ii would be splendid idea would
all read the definition over again and really think what it means
and heed its warning.
This the planting all three times
day be properly nourished that may do
best work in the world Our oodsuffs for the winter
must large be produced through someone's labor
the soil during the four months 1t late
each of to aid in wardng off of the soad Myste
workings Providence" which otherwise may visit
of forms winter plant this spring
diligently hoe and cultivate them this and regousy
gather and the in the autumn for winter
People who have tried this plan the past found that
the Good Lord has provided the elements the SOIL has
put into the seed the reproduction has along
the sunshine and needed and in has provided
all that produce crop the will to plant
and the diligence hoe and weed and harvest 1t is surprising
now great variety and generous quantity OF wholesome
shing hoalthmantaing vegetables be produced
lively small plot of ground if said be cultivated intensivey
and ntegent and peseverngy and the codpack meth
cd of these vegetables both SIMPLE inexpensive
understands and follows only few simple rules
The preservation of fruit either by this process older
method simple and westoed cellar of preserv
ed products from ones garden plot will far next winter
toward providing for ones family wholesome noshing food
low cost
there ever was time whe we needed to fully realize the
the Providence it during
REIMBURSEMENT and industrial uncertainty Providence ALL
largely to the individual We will repeat the def
milton providence the act of preparing providing for the
future prudence the of
and frugay Noah Webster said anil Noah knew because
ne had had lot of experience and had done heap thinking
Man is his own master his servant Whether he be
able to really enjoy freedom whether he be the of his
passions habits and inherited tendencies depends entirely
himself takes wpower and determination eradicate bad
habits and evil tendencies person who Systematically
hic faufc boooioo
them, and then Systematically about the job will
ph much and the best of it is that the harder he