RELIGION AND THE FARMERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 133, 8 June 1906, Page 3

RELIGION AND THE FARMERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —At the Farmers' Union Conference held at Pahiatua recently .you reported that Captain Hewitt, of Palmerston North, said, " That • public recognition of our- dependence on Almighty God for successful results from our labours is essential to the success of a Farmers' Union." What can be truer or more, reasonable. God says, "Return, I will restore the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpiller." Yoxir report further said, "The pro forma seconder thought it quite out of place to lead the conference into a theological discussion." Let Cowper reply: Fashion, leader of a chattering train, Whom man,.for his own hurt, permits to reign, Holds a usurped dominion o'er his tongue. That fruits of .God's love and wonders of his might, Be never named in ears esteemed polite, That he who dares, when she forbids, be grave, Shall stand proscribed, a madman or a knave. I am, etc., A READER. June 7th, 1906.