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Excerpt from To the Members of the Grange Patrons of Husbandry of Canada, These Essays, Flora, Ceres, and Ponoma Are Respectfully Dedicated by Mrs. Christina Moffat, Edge Hill, Ontario
My object in writing these essays was to bring before the Brothers and Sisters of the Grange, the hidden beauties of the three goddesses, the gifts of God with their innumerable and various charms each peculiar and distinct in itself, outvieing one another in beauty, and so combined'that if you take away one, the chain is broken, the link is gone and consequently, all is lost. I sincerely hope these essays will awaken in the brothers and sisters a love for the great study of nature, ever fresh and young, whose joys never disgust with satiety nor weary with reiteration. We cannot be in the habit of thus exercising our faculties without their, being much benefitted and improved. Whatever calls forth the powers of the mind tends to elevate and enlarge its capacity, and nothing contributes more to this noble purpose than the study of nature and nature's God. There is no better way then of enlarging our views or gaining a richer treasure of ideas and more ample intelligence than in contemplating the works of God, whose grandeur and mag nificence are beyond the limits of comprehension. By such con templations all the faculties of the soul acquire strength and vigor, and our capability of enjoying happiness, both here and hereafter, becomes abundantly increased, for the more the capacity of our minds is enlarged here by contemplating the Supreme Being, more enobled and exalted will it be and the greater will be its powers of comprehension and of enjoyment in futurity. The second time I attended the Provincial Grange I Was elected to the position of Flora. Sister Nelles, of Niagara District Division Grange, to that of Pomona. Sister Nelles thanked the Grange for the honor it had conferred upon her, and remarked that she had always done her.
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