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gate of the valley you will want a warmer and surer faith 

 than Nature and her unpitying skies reveal; another 

 promise of immortality than the poor prophesying of the 

 worm and the chrysalis. You will want a Gospel, a Naza- 

 reth, a Calvary. And so you will go forth from your home, 

 and pass the school-house and the town-house by, and 

 enter in with grateful hope at the church door, on the 

 village green, and bend towards the altar. 



IV. If now, finally, we go back with him from all these 

 exterior liabilities to his own premises again, we shall 

 hardly need, by this time, to memorialize the farmer of 

 what is required of him in his house. If the school has 

 disciplined his thinking faculty and refined his taste, if the 

 town-meeting has waked in him the exalting sense of citi- 

 zenship, if the church has lifted his heart into communion 

 with the Father of all families, and inspired his conscience 

 by the prophecy of life eternal, he will scarcely be content 

 to live a drivelling dullard at home, to play the selfish 

 tyrant in the little political economy of kitchen and parlor, 

 or to be worse than an infidel by providing not for his 

 own. By derivation, the significance of your common 

 title, husband-m.a,n, holds you to something. Husband- 

 men, I suppose, are not bachelor-men. Our agricultural 

 college, when it is established, will have to find some more 

 consistent style for its diploma than Bachelor of Husbandry. 

 Now, as Nature has done her part towards furnishing a 

 husbandman, by making you a man, she seems to presume 

 you will finish the business by making yourself a husband. 

 And when you have done that initial duty, it will remain 

 for you to take off the edge of two satires I have 

 heard flung at married people, doubtless by some malig- 

 nant critic, who, on being asked what matrimony was like, 

 said it was "going home by daylight, after courtship's 

 masquerade," — and then, what married life was, that it 

 was " matrimony doing penance." Give him the lie. 



