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hill-sides, out ©f which to seek the light of day. The great question is^ 

 how are these waters to be reached, and brought to the surface for man's 

 use. It would not be too much to assert that if the Creator of the 

 Earth, with all these streams of water in it, so necessary for man's use, 

 has not provided by some law of Nature for their discovery, then there 

 would be a defect in His Avork. For, to provide an ample supply for 

 the wants of man, but not to provide any means but a mere blind 

 chance to discover that supply, is, to say the least of it, not skilful man- 

 agement. It would be but tantalizing man in his wants, to assure him, 

 as we all know is the case, that abundant streams of water run under 

 srround, but at the same time leave him in total darkness as to the means 

 of procuring it. The reasonableness of such a provision, raises a strong 

 presumption that it is made, and the facts hereinbefore stated, show how 

 and in what way it is made. 



Unbelievers in this theory and practice, have usually paid the penalty 

 of their sin, in the enormous expenses they are at in obtaining water. 

 Some, to be sure, may and do hit water at hap-hazard; but others, upoa 

 an average, miss it, and dig for nothing, probably four times, out of five. 

 A friend of mine, of Grant county, to gratify me, obtained direction 

 from three or four different "water-philosophers," at different times, 

 and each unknown to the other ; and all fixed upon the same spot, Avithin 

 thirty feet of his door, and less than forty feet from the surface. But 

 being an unbeliever in this theory, he could not be induced to dig in that 

 place, but went some ten rods from the house, into the head of a ravine, 

 at a level of some twenty feet lower than the one indicated, and sunk a 

 well about seventy feet, being at least tAventy feet below the level of his 

 spring, which broke out about one hundred rods down the ravine, and 

 at an expense of probably one hundred and fifty dollars ; yet he got no 

 water. He then obtained a hydraulic ram and lead pipe, by Avhich the 

 water of his spring is forced up hill, eighty-four feet in a distance of one 

 hundred rods, being yet ten rods from the house, and at an expense, in- 

 cluding his own labor, of at least 8200. Here is one case of hundreds, 

 who after hauling the water half a mile, for ten or fifteen years, will 

 spend three or four hundred dollars to obtain the element, when fifty 

 dollars might, and would, in most cases, procure it at or near the door ;. 

 and all this, because men will not believe in a matter which has been 

 tested and proved by thousands; and that, too, for the unphilosophical 

 reason that they "do not understand it." 



