HOW TO FIND REST. 5 



Behind thee leave thy merchandise, 

 Thy churches and thy charities. 



Enough for thee the primal mind 



That flows in streams that breathes in wind." 



Even the gentle Wordsworth, too; read his 

 exquisite sonnet, beginning, 



" The world is too much with us ; late and soon, 

 Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." 



All recognize that it is a mental and spiritual 

 change that is needed. 



With the earnest desire of suggesting to tired 

 souls a practicable way of resting, I will even 

 give a bit of personal history; I will tell the 

 way in which I have learned to find re-cre- 

 ation in nature. 



When I turn my back upon my home, I 

 make a serious and determined effort to leave 

 behind me all cares and worries. As my train, 

 on that beautiful May evening, passed beyond 

 the brick and stone walls, and sped into the 

 open country, and I found myself alone with 

 night, I shook off, as well as I was able, all my 

 affairs, all my interests, all my responsibilities, 

 leaving them in that busy city behind me, where 

 a few burdens more or less would not matter 

 to anybody. With my trunks checked, and my 

 face turned toward the far-off Rocky Mountains, 

 I left the whole work-a-<Jay world behind me, 

 departing so far as possible a liberated 



