Word: husbandman
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...world of nature as in spiritual things it is true that as you give just so shall you receive. Once the forces of nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their study, they returned his pains a hundred fold. So to the husbandman the earth gives just in proportion as he gives himself to its cultivation. From this we must learn that we cannot gain anything without giving ourselves to it. We cannot become fine scholars or musicians without devoting ourselves to our work. In religion it is especially true that...
...children of Israel was one that all nations should learn, and God has been continually trying to teach this same lesson to the different peoples of the world. The land to which the Jews were going was not like Egypt, where the Nile supplied the place of the toiling husbandman; but a land where they must work for themselves. Change is one of the most distinct marks of our day, the best and the bravest. The land promised the Jews was a good one, but strange and full of dangers, where a, nation was to spring up beloved...
...monographic form, - and others which want of space prevents us from mentioning. To accomplish all this, extensive journeys had to be undertaken, and Professor Agassiz travelled throughout the length and breadth of the United States, until he became almost as familiar with their broad expanse of country as the husbandman with the few acres which he tills. Through all this great activity he ever kept in view the one object to which his efforts were directed: it was his earnest wish to gather specimens for a natural history of his adopted country, and to present them in classified form; this...