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Excerpt from The Church of the Open Country: A Study of the Church for the Working Farmer The Country Church I Stand in the fields, Where the wide earth yields Her bounties of fruit and grain; Where the furrows turn Till the plowshares burn As they come 'round and 'round again; Where the workers pray With their tools all day In sunshine and shadow and rain. And I bid them tell Of the crops they sell And speak of the work they have done; I speed every man In his hope and plan And follow his day with the sun; And grasses and trees, The birds and the bees I know and I feel ev'ry one. And out of it all As the seasons fall I build my great temple alway; I point to the skies. But my footstone lies In commonplace work of the day; For I preach the worth Of the native earth - To love and to work is to pray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.