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with that fire. Can't you see you are making it all black?" The 

 darkie replied, "Never you mind, massa. Dat grass -will come up 

 again just as green as you are." 



Now if a boy is going to be a farmer, and has acquired this special 

 education by which he is fitted for one, w^hy is any farther education 

 necessary? Because he is not a Avell-balanced man. Weigh him in 

 the balance and as a man, he shall be found wanting. Because edu- 

 cation is development in the fullest seuse of the word — physically, 

 intellectually and morally. This special education as a farmer has 

 given him a larger i)hysical development than otherwise. 



We will next consider his intellectual development. What this 

 should be would depend something on the desire of the boy and the 

 money at his command. First, as a foundation he should have a 

 thorough common school education. Next, should be a course in a 

 commercial college and the agricultural college, and if the boy de- 

 sires, a classical college education, and it can be obtained. He is 

 all the more fortunate because a boy never becomes too wise to 

 make a good farmer. A prominent English lady said, ''An Ameri- 

 can girl can come to England and take her place in any society." 

 The American girl is educated and accomplished or she could not 

 do this. If a farmer is properly educated he can fill a place beside 

 any other professional man in society. He can appear just as grace- 

 ful and make just as good a hand at a prayer-meeting as at a wood- 

 chopping. 



We have given the farm-boy a special education in farming, to this 

 we have added a classical college education, and as a man weigh him 

 in the balance, the verdict and command is. "One thing thou lack 

 est" — Go and get moral education. Every man is balanced by two 

 weights and those two weights are, his head and his heart. And 

 he is evenly balanced when the wisdom in his head and the Grace of 

 God in his heart are of equal proportion. Religion is largely a thing 

 of the heart, and religion is to a man what the perfume is to a flower 

 or what sunshine is to the day, adding unto him sweetness, culture 

 and kindness. The great lack in the man of the world to-day is not 

 in his head but his heart. And this heart development can be ob- 

 tained only by actual practice of Christianity. Moral education ia the 

 most valuable of all, "Because the highest learning is to be wise and 

 the greatest wisdom is to be good." "For what profiteth it a man 

 if he gain the whole world and loose his own soul." So educate, and 

 thus develop the farm boy physically, intellectually and morally, and 

 the result will be an educated, cultured, Christian gentleman who 

 will be proud of the honorable title, farmer, who will always look 

 upon the farm as "Home, Sweet Home," and who will, with the poet, 

 gladly sing this song of country life: 



"Most tranquil, innocent, and happy life, 

 Full of the holy joy chaste nature yields. 

 Redeemed from care, and sin, and the hot strife 

 That rings around the smoked, unwholesome dome. 



; " "Where Mammon his black scepter wields— 



Here let me rest in humble cottage home, 

 Here let me labor in the enameled fields: 

 How pleasant in these ancient woods to roam. 



"With kind-eyed friend, or kindly-teaching- book; 

 '■■ Or the fresh gallop on the dew dropt heath, 



Or at fair eventide, with feathered hook 

 To strike the swift trout in the shallow brook, 



