New Walks in Old Ways 



from that which is passing by them. 

 In this farming business it is not 

 merely the bushels and the pounds 

 produced that may be entered in the 

 credit column. Those are the big, sub- 

 stantial, essential things, of course, 

 without which there is nothing; but 

 there are blessings and genuine satis- 

 factions that should come to every 

 human being, I care not what the size 

 of his bank account or his mortgage, 

 the number of his acres, the size of his 

 house or wage, or the nature of his 

 work; provided that he lives upon the 

 soil, lives where the stars can be seen 

 at night, lives where the air is fit for 

 human lungs, lives where he is in 

 hourly partnership with the great one 

 God called Nature, and has any appre- 

 ciation of his true relations to the 

 universe. As a matter of fact, the 

 hired man has the same interest in the 

 sunrise and the milky-way of the 

 summer sky as the owner of a great 

 estate. The hardest-working tenant 



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