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 incrops. 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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