be whole again. And every honest physician will testify 

 that it is infinitely easier to preserve our health and 

 develop it, than it is to restore it when lost. In the 

 increasing wisdom of our times, it has come to he under- 

 stood that health of body is necessary for all classes. 

 There was a time when sickly boys were turned into the 

 professions. The unhealthy body, which could not 

 endure the work of the farm, might still be of service in 

 the study. That fallacy has passed away. We now send 

 sickly men out of the professions to the farm. We send 

 sick ministers and doctors as we do broken down horses, 

 "out to grass," and we send into the professions the 

 strongest men we have. We look for a sound mind in a 

 healthy body. We believe in a sturdy, honest, hardy 

 piety, which is able to do the will of God as well as to 

 long for something spiritual. A vigorous brain needs 

 good digestion. A dyspeptic stomach breeds morbid 

 thoughts. Whatever wastes the energies, depraves the 

 mind. Disease is not confined to the body, but it preys 

 on the sensibilities and the intellect, and destroys the 

 glory of life. It is not strange, then, that men long for 

 health. I claim that the conditions of health are best 

 secured by the farmer. He breathes God's pure air, and 

 that air is not mingled with the dust of the mill, or the 

 contagion that lurks in the crowded streets and allevs. 

 He breathes the air fresh from the hills, cleansed by 

 every shower, fragrant with the breath of heaven ; pure 

 air, full of oxygen, which reddens the blood, and sends 

 it with living power to give strength and glowing beauty 

 to the whole body. The farmer does not work behind 

 some wall which hides the sun ; his labor is where the 

 sunlight paints (he Mower, and fills the apple boughs 

 with crimson, and adds the purple to the luscious grapes. 



