. Arbor day : its history and observance . olved a human habita-tion, a home—my home—wherein a mothers love had blossomed and fruited with asweetness surpassing the loveliness of the rose and the honeysuckle. Thus from thatformer feathery floater in mid-air grew a home and all the endearing contentmentand infinite satisfaction which that blessfed Anglo-Saxon word conveys—that oneword which means all that is worth living for and for which alone all good men andwomen are living. Here are a few acorns to-day; to-morrow, a century hence, they are sturdy oaks,then ships, railroads, carriages, and e
. Arbor day : its history and observance . olved a human habita-tion, a home—my home—wherein a mothers love had blossomed and fruited with asweetness surpassing the loveliness of the rose and the honeysuckle. Thus from thatformer feathery floater in mid-air grew a home and all the endearing contentmentand infinite satisfaction which that blessfed Anglo-Saxon word conveys—that oneword which means all that is worth living for and for which alone all good men andwomen are living. Here are a few acorns to-day; to-morrow, a century hence, they are sturdy oaks,then ships, railroads, carriages, and everything useful, and parts of homes which areall—in both poetry and reality—that is lovable, beautiful, and supremely tender inthe career of humanity from birth to death. The real of to-day was the ideal ofyesterday; the ideal of to-day will be the real of to-morrow. And as arboretums are developing the infant forests, nursing tremendous timbers,whence masts and spars and sills and joists shall emerge into swiftly sailing ships. and massive marts of trade, which are to convey and cover the commerce of comingtimes, so in the schools, the colleges, and universities are growing the mental timberwhence the State shall cull in the near future those pillars and supports which aidto bear up forcAer in America civil and religious liberty; that is, freedom to think,freedom to speak, freedom to trade, freedom to develop individualism, and to assertits consciousness of right without fear either of sectarian or partisan bigotry. Letus all, then, each in his vocation and sphere, plant wisely for the years to come,rather than dwell dejectedly upon the years gone and going—the farmer, his forestand orchard, the teacher his science and morals. Improved materially by the former,intellectually by the latter, the world will well with gratitude to both. But treeplanter and teacher united in one shall be declared the best benefactor of moderntimes—the chief provider for posterity. On
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