Brief Memorials of Jean Frdric Oberlin Pastor of Waldbach in Alsace And O
Brief Memorials of Jean Frdric Oberlin Pastor of Waldbach in Alsace And O
Thomas Sims
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The people being thus deprived of many advantages, he tried to persuade them to form a road for half a league, and build a bridge ; a proposal to which they were averse till he pointed out to them that they would be amply repaid by taking their produce to market, and bringing back Other articles. Under his superintendence the work was so effectually carried on that a communication was opened with Strasbourg at all seasons of the year. They afterwards, under his direction, improved the roads fro...m one village to another; raised walls to prevent the good soil on the declivities from being washed away by rains ; turned the streams that were carrying off that soil into proper channels ; and built convenient cottages instead of their former wretched cabins. Another principal improvement he intro- duced was that in the system of agriculture, often a difficult task, and requiring much patience and perseverance, on account of the prejudices common amongst country people. Well knowing this, Oberlin resolved to D 60 BRIEF MEMORIAL appeal to their eyes instead of their ears; and having two gardens in which there were paths through which the parishioners were accustomed to pass, he brought them, with the help of an intelligent servant, into so high a state of cultivation, that the people, wondering at the contrast between their pastor's ground and crops and their own, anxiously inquired the reason.
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