Magnify your Calling.
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l wish could see in all our farmers
disposition to magnify their calling;
but l have been grieved in many a
farmhouse, 10 listen TO lamentations
over what they call their "hard lot"
l have heard the residents upon no
BILE farm, all paid for, talk about druid.
gerry, and never having their work
done, ard few or no opportunities for
the children; and l have especially
been sorry 10 hear the females lament
over the hard fate of some promising
youth of seventeen or eighteen, who
was admirably filling up bis duties,
and training himself for extensive USE
fulness and influence. They have
made comparisons between his situa.
ton, coarsely clad and working hard,
and coming in fatigued, with some
cousin at college, or young man who
cterked it in city store, till at length
the boy has become dissatisfied, and
begged off from his true interests and
happiness. ] am conversant with no
truer scenes of enjoyment than l have
witnessed in American farm. houses


and even log cabins, where the father


under the influence of enlightened
Of enlightened Christianity and sound
views oflife, has gone with his family.
as the world have termed il, into the