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fort, contentment, where too many of them have found only 

 drudgery, privation, and long hours of toil. I want them to 

 work at home on the farm, and to learn to lay up treasures in 

 heaven, as well as treasures on earth ; and I want to show them 

 the buried treasures that lie unused only a little way below the 

 surface of the soil just below the surface of so many farms, 

 where at present we see only an unsightly and dreary waste of 

 weeds and disorder." 



Now, my good friend Terry did not say any thing of the 

 sort. He is not as talkative a man as I am, and he did not say 

 very much about it, only that he did not want 14 acres of 

 strawberries, with their attendant care and bustle. In going 

 all over the premises, all over his home, and talking with his 

 wife and children, one was impressed at every step that he is 

 not bent on making money. It seems, however, that the kind 

 Father has provided the money. That little text that has been 

 for so many years a hobby of mine, explains it all : "Seek ye 

 first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these 

 things shall be added unto you." So long as friend Terry is 

 working with all his might and main to emancipate the farmer 

 from the drudgery of ordinaiy farming, God will see to it that 

 he has the wherewith to do his work. Moody once said that 

 he believed that God would furnish his ministering servants 

 with the wherewith to carry on their work. I said, as soon as 

 I heard it, "I, too, believe it is true." 



Before I left I told my good friend, that, although there 

 were to be more chapters to the strawberry-book, he could have 

 his pay for what he had done, just as well now as at any other 

 time ; and I added something like this : 



" Friend TV, I have been having many heavy cares and 

 burdens to bear Curing the past few months ; but I am glad to 

 be able to say that lack of funds has not been one of the bur- 

 dens." 



He replied : 



"Thank you, Mr. Root ; but I do not need it. A lack of 



