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The expression has reference to “Pennsylvania Dutch country.”  We once thought Deuteronomy 11:12 could apply to it: “A land which the Lord thy God careth for.  The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto the end of the year.”  By the way, this would make a good sermon text for New Year’s Day or for Old Year’s night.  The earliest, if not the original, inhabitants of the above-mentioned land thought of it in terms of this Deuteronomic text.  For they had...