Vlii A WORD TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF 



lives fast, sins fast, dies fast; while the other drudges, 

 withers, sinks fast, suffers fast, and also dies fast. One 

 class is vicious, proud, imperial; the other low, menial, 

 degraded, both guilds forgetting humanity, forgetting 

 God; swallowed by one common fate,- ingulfed in one 

 common ruin. 



The beckoning from the mountain-top, the significance 

 of the country life, the song of the hill and meadow, 

 have assumed gravity and grandeur. 



Man in contact with the healthy real, man militant 

 with rocks and trees, snakes and wolves, man ready and 

 willing to work, to dig and to delve for his own blood, 

 especially happy to do something, to advance and to 

 grow, stands out in beautiful relief, the king of the 

 planet, sceptred and crowned. 



Might not a friendly voice from the woods be heard 

 in the hum and shock, or possibly reach the ear of some 

 haggard sufferer, writhing in the folds and meshes of the 

 artificial life, or flung out scathed and blasted by the 

 wayside, and inspire him with hope that the blue hills 

 and green fields, the cool sequestered forests, the lonely 

 haunts by mountain springs in the stillness of evening 

 or dewy freshness of the morning, might have life, health, 

 and joy for him ? 



With sweet solicitude the kind earth woos him. Come, 

 my feverish boy ! my poor, hot, sinful, sick, and poisoned 

 child! fast horses and champagne, green turtle and ter- 

 rapin, whisky and oysters, are not the a dream of life" 

 realized. Come, troubled one, "Nature is medicinal;" 

 there is salvation in exercise and honest labor. Come, 

 "grow two blades of grass where one grew;" from the 

 eye of the potato fill your eye and stomach, too; come, 

 grow fruit and bread plants instead of poison weeds and 

 brambles ; the rambo apple for the crab ; delicious pears 

 instead of knotty haws ; the ox and horse in place of deer 

 and elk ; but especially, come, regrow thyself, and, with 

 thy body renewed, introduce thyself to the universe with 

 a renewed soul ! 



"Pass thou through Mount Ephraim, and the land of 

 Shalisha, the land of Shalim, the land of the Benjamites, 

 into the land of Zuph," and there, like Saul, the son of 



