ADDRESS. 



The cultivation of the Earth is the natural and ap- 

 propriate employment of man. He was formed of the 

 earth ; and his birtli-place was a garden. A garden too, 

 planted and cultivated by the hand of Him, who created 

 it ; in which " grcAV every tree pleasant to the sight, or 

 good for food ; the tree of Life, also, in the midst of 

 the garden." 



This exhibition, so rich in the beauties of Nature ; 

 so luxuriant in her fruits and foliage ; was designed to 

 teach the new inhabitant his future employment ; and 

 his connection with the earth, which he was soon to be 

 commissioned " to dress and till." And, " the tree of 

 Life in the midst of the garden," contained a direction, 

 as by precept, that, amid all his cares and labors, the 

 Avorship of his Maker, the Great Proprietor, should 

 hold a preeminent place. Thus establishing, by a silent 

 but immutable decree, the intimate relation subsisting 

 between his labors and his duties — a relation as lasting, 

 as his pilgrimage on earth. 



How much ought every husbandman to regard his 

 high destination ! How deeply feel his responsibility, and 

 his obligation to follow the great example here set be- 

 fore him ; and to obey the precept, here so forcibly 

 taught ! 



Accordingly we find, in the only authentic record of 

 early times, that the oldest son of Adam was " a tiller 

 of* the ground ;" and that Noah, immediately after the 

 deluge, ''became an husbandman, and planted a vineyaxd^'''' 



