The Farmer.
As a producer of the necessaries of life, he may be looked upon as a steward, commissioned to unlock and throw open the gates of nature's store-houses, that men and beast may eat nnil be satisfied—the medium, so to speak, through which a beneficent Creator designs to hand his blessings down. His business is an important one in every respect, the puri suit of it too is at once ennobling and delightful, to live uud move, as lie necessarily must, amid the beauties, the wonders-, atid the bounties of nature, constrains him, one would think, to look up more frequently than others, with feelings of awe and gratitude, to Him who crownetli the year with gladness, and blesses /lis bumble labours with success. ' And does the fanner really occupy tin's dignified position r The answer is, ii he does not, ho might and ought to do so; at nil events he will have to give an account of his I stewardship. How. comes it then that any tanner can remain indifferent, while the broad acres are lying around him uncultivated and consequently unfruitful? lloiv is it that he persists in clinging with such limpet-like tenacity to the keel of Wis favourite old vessel, Prejudice, when the light of nature, the light of reason, and the implied in junctions of Omnipotence, are united in their | influence to dissipate these slm lo.vs from bis i mind ?
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 58, 13 March 1851, Page 4
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236The Farmer. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 58, 13 March 1851, Page 4
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