ARBOR DAY 19 



Shape it to bench and stool, 

 Shape it to square and rule, 

 Shape it for home and school, 

 God bless the wood. 



Lord of the earth and sea, 

 Prosper our planted tree, 



Save with Thy might. 

 Save us from indolence, 

 Waste and improvidence, 

 And in Thy excellence, 



Lead us aright. 



ARBOR DAY 



ANONYMOUS 



OUR modern institution Arbor Day is a pub- 

 lic acknowledgement of our dependence upon the 

 soil of the earth for our daily, our annual, bread. 

 In recognition of the same fact the Emperor of 

 China annually plows a furrow with his own hand, 

 and in the same significance are the provisions in 

 the ancient law of Moses, to give the land its seven- 

 year Sabbath, as well as to man his seventh day for 

 rest and recreation. Our observance is a better one, 

 because it calls on all, and especially on the impres- 

 sible learners in the schools to join in the duty 

 which we owe to the earth and to all mankind, 



