two] selecting a home 



vacation country home — here he should spend his 

 off weeks, not exactly out of harness, but cultivating 

 a sympathy for nature, and allowing nature to ex- 

 press a sympathy for him. In this way he will be 

 prepared at any time to take care of himself, if 

 forced to leave the professional field. Such a home 

 will not only welcome him in his old age or ill 

 health ; it will also render him more independent in 

 his preaching, and save his manhood as well as 

 his intellectual vigor. 



It only remains to sketch a country place where a 

 family of moderate income may retire,without being 

 compelled to spend anything more for its keep than 

 it pays back in crops. This is my ideal of a country 

 home. Whatever may be our income otherwise, 

 five or ten acres of land should be so handled as to 

 pay its own way, and support a family. With 

 rent removed, and many of the conventional ex- 

 penses of city life avoided, a family may live in the 

 country on from eight hundred to twelve hundred 

 dollars a year. This amount can be taken from the 

 sale of crops without sacrificing the beautiful. 



This new home of ours, in all its varieties, you 

 will observe has certain converging lines. The tide 

 outward from the city is carrying the people, under 



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