When your child throws away a piece of bread, make him pick it
up again and tell him the history of that piece of bread. Tell
him what has been requisite that that bread might exist. Tell
him of the toils of the plowman and of the sower, under the sky,
inclement and changeful; the obscure bursting of the seed in
the ground, the long sleep under the snow, the awakening in the
spring, when the green life along the furrows makes its orisons
to the sun, source of life. Describe the hope of the farmer when
the corn puts forth its ears, and his anguish when the storm
rises on the horizon. Do not forget the harvester who wields
his scythe in the dog-day heat, and that poor prisoner of the
cities, pledged to nocturnal toil in overheated cellars, the
baker. (Text.)--CHARLES WAGNER, “The Gospel of Life.”
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