The American Sheaf
T.DeWitt Talmage
Genesis, 37: 7: "We were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf."
A Josephic dream! At seventeen years of age, and when life is most roseate, Joseph, in vision, saw a great harvest field, himself and his brethren at work in it, and after a while the sheaf that he was binding rose up with an imperial air, and the sheaves of the other harvesters fell flat on their faces as the over- awed subjects of an empire might fall down on their faces before a king. The dream was fulfilled when there was famine in Egypt and Joseph had the care of all the corn-cribs, and his brethren came and implored food from him. Sure enough, all their sheaves bowed to his sheaf. A Thanksgiving Day vision! I am awav out in the center of a field where the harvests of all nations are reaping. Here is the great American sheaf. Sheaf of wheat, sheaf of rice, sheaf of corn, sheaf floral; agricultural, homological, mineralogical, literary and moral prosperities-all bound together in one great sheaf. It is kingly, and on its brow is the golden coronal of all the year's sunshine, and in its presence all the sheaves of European and Asiatic har- vests bend and fall down, feeling their littleness. Oh, the sheaf, the golden sheaf, the overtopping sheaf of American prosperity! Other nations far surpass ours in antiquities, in cathedrals, in titled pomp, in art gal- leries; but in most things their sheaves must bow to our sheaf. I have an idea that the most favored con- stellation of immensity is the one of which the earth is a star, and of the hemispheres the western is the most favored, and that of the zones the temperate is the more desirable, and the United States are the best part of the American continent. The best place on earth to live is here. Had it not been so, there would have been three hundred thousand Americans last year moving into Eu ...
T.DeWitt Talmage
Genesis, 37: 7: "We were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf."
A Josephic dream! At seventeen years of age, and when life is most roseate, Joseph, in vision, saw a great harvest field, himself and his brethren at work in it, and after a while the sheaf that he was binding rose up with an imperial air, and the sheaves of the other harvesters fell flat on their faces as the over- awed subjects of an empire might fall down on their faces before a king. The dream was fulfilled when there was famine in Egypt and Joseph had the care of all the corn-cribs, and his brethren came and implored food from him. Sure enough, all their sheaves bowed to his sheaf. A Thanksgiving Day vision! I am awav out in the center of a field where the harvests of all nations are reaping. Here is the great American sheaf. Sheaf of wheat, sheaf of rice, sheaf of corn, sheaf floral; agricultural, homological, mineralogical, literary and moral prosperities-all bound together in one great sheaf. It is kingly, and on its brow is the golden coronal of all the year's sunshine, and in its presence all the sheaves of European and Asiatic har- vests bend and fall down, feeling their littleness. Oh, the sheaf, the golden sheaf, the overtopping sheaf of American prosperity! Other nations far surpass ours in antiquities, in cathedrals, in titled pomp, in art gal- leries; but in most things their sheaves must bow to our sheaf. I have an idea that the most favored con- stellation of immensity is the one of which the earth is a star, and of the hemispheres the western is the most favored, and that of the zones the temperate is the more desirable, and the United States are the best part of the American continent. The best place on earth to live is here. Had it not been so, there would have been three hundred thousand Americans last year moving into Eu ...
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