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Show Shall Harvest Always S'ltiwcr Its Closings? 1 hue ..lien iholK'Ilt how wolider-litis wolider-litis :.; has been blessed anil prospered, when in It single lifetime It has pro-ressi'il from tlie bare sickle, past cradle, mowing machine, reaper, hell' bin, ers up to the combine, which iloes ii way iili Hull, ham! fan, threshing thresh-ing iii.u liiiie. laiiidng mill b.v lis single operation ! In the last sixty yearn we have gone ran her In our harvesting than in all Hie linnisamls of years that hail gone bv since Abraham gathered wheal on tin- hillsides of Canaan for Sarah anil linear to grind by hand, "The Observer" writes In the Montreal l'iimHy Herald. Our wheat, too, has become u very dill'ereiil thing from the stubby ears, t wo on a Hteiu usn ally, of the small grained wheat which Joseph knew and grew In the laud of I I'-g.vpl. Think of the millions of tons of food we have taken out of the ground, since that great tlooii of which every nation has preserved some recollection. rec-ollection. And still we have harvests and take more nitrogenous grain and other foods from the soli! Will mankind man-kind always be able to do so. do you suppose? Is there danger of earth and air and sea falling to give us the materials ma-terials for building up wheat, and dairy products? Have we any natural reason for believing that no change Is possible, that what has been, always will be? Faith Is au amazing thlug, Is It not? |