CHAPTER III.
ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND.
Left to idle lamentations, Israel might now have planted deep furrows in his brow.

But stifling his pain, he chose rather to plough, than be ploughed.

Farming weans man from his sorrows.

That tranquil pursuit tolerates nothing but tranquil meditations.

There, too, in mother earth, you may plant and reap; not, as in other things, plant and see the planting torn up by the roots.