The New England Farmer Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...recreation and rest, would take his family to a treeless village Our people are now appreciating the value of trees, and their influence upon both mind and matter. From some eminence our villages have the appearance of a forest. The smoke curls up from among waving branches, and the church spire looks out from among green leaves, while the tones of the church bell, so familiar to every New England ear, roll away to the hillsides, mellowed and subdued by the blossoms and foliage of our village trees. Bonaparte was once walking upon the terrace at Malmaison, and was deeply affected by hearing the evening bells of 1 tucl. "If such is their effect upon me," he said, "what must it be with others?" What son of a New England village ever wandered into the wide world, and forgot his New England church, and minister, and village trees Some, alas, may have forgotten them for a time, but the impression of them made in youth, can rarely be effaced from the mind. The kind and earnest words of a faithful teacher to the young heart, will bear him in remembrance in all after life, whether in the quiet seclusion of life, or on burning sands, or stormy seas. Thousands in these villages will say with the estimable Fuller, "Our minister lives sermons--he is ever as hospitable as his estate will permit, and makes every alms two by his cheerful giving it. He loveth to live in a well repaired house, that he may serve God therein more cheerfully, and lying on his death-bed, he bequeathes to each of his parishioners his precepts and examples for a legacy, and they in requital erect every one a monument for him in their hearts." We receive many letters from the sons and daughters of New England now residing in the West, but rarely one that does not sh...