Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — God Made the Country. [ARTICLE]

God Made the Country.

As the wire edge of winter wears down to the softness of spring the call of the country becomes insistent. The desert that man has made and called a town may be good enough in winter. Then we see starved plants growing on ledges of the stony cliffs we call houses or hotels, as pathetic a sight as a five-year-old girl in a public dance hall. They have no place there. The blasting winds of winter tear them to pieces and the blistering suns of summer burn the life out of them. But the country! That Is the place for living. The green carpet of the earth gladdens the heart, and the sight of growing things that we have planted appeals to something fundamental In us which we deny at the peril of losing our best selves. We are all farmers at bottom. Man made the town,-7 and It is a splendid example of what man can do, leaving out the glory of the fecund earth. But <God, after all, made the great outdoors that we know as the counry.—Philadelphia Ledger.