DEDICATION.

will emerge within the interval of a few years with the most prosperous happiness, and will be enriched with such great wealth that both the highest and lowest, moved by the greatest joy, will celebrate God with praises and give thanks to Him.
Otherwise, I can easily conjecture that this offspring of my ingenuity will be exposed to various and diverse judgments. One will place faith in the things I have said; another, however, will blame and reject them as impossibilities and mere dreams. Yet, the truth itself will eventually emerge, and the work itself will secure the deserved praise for its master, in which I also acquiesce. May God, the Best and Greatest, our most benign Father, Steward, and Father of the Family, grant us His divine blessing, so that we may institute this concentration of wine, grain, wood, and minerals in many places of our most dear Fatherland, and with its aid obtain treasures by which we may sustain our life in the future, resist our enemies, and achieve help and aid for the honor of God and the many needy. Amen.