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loth to separate from it ; and, wherever we may go and what 

 other scenes of beauty we may look upon, we are always 

 srlad to set back to our own home. And our children, as 

 they grow up to manhood and womanhood, will be loth to 

 leave the old home ; but wherever they go, — for some of 

 them must go, — they will look back to it as the one bright 

 spot they love best on earth. 



Let us make all the friends we can. Let us invest in all 

 the pleasures that will lift us up higher and make us happier 

 and more satisfied with our surroundings. You are probably 

 familiar with the story of the vessel that was disabled by a 

 storm at sea, dismantled and driven hither and thither with 

 the winds and the waves, the crew exhausted and out of water, 

 and looking and waiting anxiously for some passing vessel to 

 come that way and give them relief. At length, when they 

 had almost given up in despair, they discovered a ship com- 

 ing towards them under full sail. They watched it coming 

 nearer and nearer, and when it was within speaking distance 

 the captain shouted, with all the strength he in his exhausted 

 condition could command, "Water, water! Give us water, 

 — we are dying of thirst ! " Back over the waves came the 

 answering cry, " Dip it up ! dip it up ! You are in the mouth 

 of the Amazon." So I say to you discouraged farmers who are 

 looking and waiting for some one to come along and buy 

 your farm and home, and thus relieve your present distress, 

 even at a great sacrifice, so that you can try your luck in 

 some other place or in some other business, Dip it up ! Dip 

 it up ! There are yet capabilities in the soil you now pos- 

 sess, that lies at your very feet, that you have never dreamed 

 of. There is still a chance to redeem the time, a chance to 

 make a srreat chanoe for the better. Go to work with an 

 energy and faith that will admit of no failure, and you will 

 overcome the obstacles that lie in your pathway, and with 

 Heaven's blessing you will succeed. 



