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verse, to whose infinite mind all these mysteries of nature 

 are as apparent as the daylight, and under whose control all 

 the elements move in their order, and who has sworn by him- 

 self that seed-time and harvest, summer and winter, shall 

 not fail. With such a sublime faith as this in the God of 

 the universe, the husbandman goes forth to his labor again 

 in the returning spring-time. He sows in faith, he cultivates 

 in faith, and gathers in the precious fruits of liis toil with 

 rejoicing. Then let every man be true. 



" To thine own self be true, 

 And it must follow as the night the day, 

 Thou canst not then be false to any man." 



And now, Mr. President, if the question should be asked 

 you, Does farming pay ? or is farming as profitable as other 

 business ? then give the same answer you would with refer- 

 ence to any other business or profession (for it is just as 

 pertinent to any other business as to this), and if the ques- 

 tion should come, answer it by saying, " Yes, when the right 

 man is found in the right place." Farming is a failure only 

 when the wrong man is in the right man's place ; and it is 

 more truly the case with reference to farming than it is to 

 any other branch of business. 



Hence it must be seen, that in order to the most successful 

 cultivation of the soil, the breeding and developing of cattle, 

 and bringing them to a profitable market, the right man must 

 be found in the right place. 



Then we come back to our first statement, that the man is 

 more than his accidents, even in farming ; and although 



" It may not be our lot to wield 

 The sickle in the ripened field, 

 Nor ours to hear on summer eves 

 The reaper's song among the sheaves ; 

 Yet when our duty's task is wrought 

 In unison with God's great thought, 

 The past and future blend in one. 

 And whatsoe'er is willed is done." 



