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bringing that millenlal age of universal peace and happiness, long 

 dreamed of by the poets, foretold by the prophets, and promised by 

 God himself. 



AH of which is respectfully submitted. 



For the Executive Committee, 



F. H. RANKIN, 



Secretary. 

 JFlint, December 31, 1855. 



ADDRESS 



DKLrVERED BY HON. J. G. SUTHERLAND, AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL FAIR 

 OF THE GENESEE COUNTr AGRICULTURAL SOCIETy, AT FLINT, OC- 

 TOBER 11, 1855. 



I have gladly accepted the invitation of your committee to address 

 you on this occasion ; but without any expectation of teaching any far- 

 mer the art or science of husbandry in its practical details, or the arti- 

 zan any novelty in his vocation. I shall only hope to interest you for a 

 few moments by some observations upon the importance and general 

 relations of agriculture, and the true course to success in the pursuit. 



Early in the history of the world it became a fixed necessity that 

 man should supply his wants by labor — that in a considerable degree he 

 should even owe the distinctive qualities of his own mental and moral 

 being, and the aliment, intellectual and material, upon which he sub- 

 sists, to his voluntary exertions. It is needless, in this p.'ace, to specu- 

 late in regard to what would otherwise have been his condition, or his 

 mode of subsistence. It is obvious that from the first generation he 

 has been in fact, and by divine appointment, a laborer. 



The injunction to labor is not only written in the Book of Books, and 

 thus rendered obligatory on account of a very ancient transaction, but it 

 is legibly inscribed upon the human system, that whoever consults his 

 own nature, and regards the laws by which the health of his body and 

 the vigor of his mind are promoted, will be admonished that labor is of 

 perpetual obligation. 



The body is but a tissue of working energies ; and the human iutel- 



