Discourse Upon Causes for Thanksgiving: Preached at Watertown, Nov. 30, 1862 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Discourse Upon Causes for Thanksgiving: Preached at Watertown, Nov. 30, 1862There is not much land, even among the rich river-bottoms and prairies of the West, so genial that man has only to tickle it with a hoe to make it laugh with a harvest. What would our farmers think of that great tract of black earth in the empire of Russia, lying between the fifty-first and fifty-seventh parallels of latitude, comprising about acres, so rich that if manured the first years of culture, the crops often prove abortive from excessive vegetation. The thickness of this deposit varies from three to six feet, and in many places it runs to an unknown But how hard it is to evoke civilization and knowledge out of that depth, because neither of them cultivate it. Yet it is in that great temperate plateau of Russia, called The Industrial Region, that freedom and religion when planted may be expected to subdue the rankness of the soil. Here freedom and religion coax and flatter sterility till it fairly forgets itself and smiles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.