AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 
CONDUCTED BY C. N. BEMENT, ALBANY. 
VOL. VIL SEPTEMBER, 1848. No. 9. 
FALL— SEPTEMBER. 
In the revolutions of the seasons, autumn has again come. 
The seasons are beautiful illustrations of our lives. We all have 
our spring of hope, our summer of joy and happiness, our growth 
and maturity; our fall mixed with joy and happiness, favorable 
breezes and adverse winds; our winter of gloom and final decay. 
Of all the seasons that of autumn we admire most. The 
beauties of earth are propitiously spread out before us. It calls 
to the vigorous mind profound contemplation. It is now the pride 
and glory of the year. The earth is covered with plenteousness, 
and the sun is pursuing, like a giant, his course through the 
heavens, dispensing light and vigor over the world beneath him. 
Are there no classes or conditions of men, of* whose character 
and condition this season, is descriptive? Are there no moral les- 
sons which they who love the Lord may gather from this season 
that brings the sere and yellow leaf? 
The grain that summer, ripens, and fall harvests, are but 
ripened anfl harvested to be transplanted, and yield perhaps an 
hundredfold. So with man; though he dies, yet shall he live 
again, for death shall no longer have dominion over him. We 
see all nature's works decaying, we are reminded that we, too, 
must die. The frost of death will soon cut down our mortal 
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