the happiest state of society, the richest farm lands, the best educational
facilities, sometimes fail to content even good people who live not to get
rich, but to fulfill their mission in the service of their "generation by
the will of God."

The young man marked by the Redeemer for a Gospel herald is not the only
sort of Christian who feels uneasy in the crowded nursery, and groans to be
torn out and transplanted on some bleak hillside where, shaken by fierce
winds, his roots may strike deep, his branches spread wide, and he bear
much fruit.

Families have thus caught the emigrating spirit in sufficient numbers to
form clans of pioneer evangelists, and torn themselves out of little Edens
to found colonies in dreary moral deserts; and as "the kingdom comes" with
more rapid strides such single-eyed emigrations will become more frequent.




CHAPTER V.


VOLNEY, OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK.

We are now suddenly introduced into a new country of heavy timber. The
people have settled near together, and yet so thick are the woods, and so
small the clearings, that nearly every family is alone, and cannot see out
in any direction but by looking up toward heaven, a habit they learned
before settling in these woods.