THE NEW EARTH 



in a calling as old as the human race, but 

 never until now come into its own, — these 

 are the tokens of the New Earth. 



Very many of the details of the progress 

 of the New Earth, as well as many of the 

 underlying principles of this progress, are 

 seen by those most vitally concerned through 

 vague mists, while the millions of the nations, 

 whose very existence is dependent upon the 

 tiller of the soil, know next to nothing of 

 all the marvelous doings of the generation 

 just closed. It is to set forth some of the 

 great changes which have been wrought that 

 this volume has been undertaken. 



In a sense more vital to the race than he 

 himself knows, the tiller of the soil has be- 

 come the protector of the nation — the one 

 who, in a very near and positive way, keeps 

 the nation in the physical poise essential to 

 the best thought and fiber of the race. Not 

 only does he feed and clothe the race, but 

 he maintains the arable globe in a condition 

 of constant service : without his hand, the 

 earth were given over to the wilderness and 

 its beasts. It is a colossal undertaking which 

 is ever before him, — the care of the nations. 



