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sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Gen., 4th Ch., 

 19th v. "The Lord God sent him forth from the 

 Garden of Eden to till the ground. "Gen. 3 Ch., 23 v. 

 "Noah planted a vineyard." Gen., 9th Ch., 20th v. 

 "And Isaac sowed in that land and found in the same 

 year an hundred fold," etc. Gen., 26 Ch., 12, 13 v. 

 "Elisha plowed with twelve yoke of oxen." See 1 Kings, 

 19th Ch., 19th v. 



Elisha no doubt was a good and successful planter, for 

 he evidently broke his land deep. "The ploughman 

 shall overtake the reaper," etc. Amos, 9th Ch., 13th to 

 15th v. "But they shall sit every man under his vine, 

 and under his fig tree," etc. Micah., 4th Ch., 3d and 

 4th v. "Behold, the sower went forth to sow," etc. 

 Math., 13 Ch., 4th and 5th v., 31st and 32d v. 



