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The field of nature is the workl. and the fiehl of art will ever lie 

 within it. In nature's Held there is nothing that is not wonderful. 

 The age of miracles is not past, for every year is one iniraele from 

 seedtime to harvest. 



Mr. Minkler- The paper just read is certainly a good and in- 

 structive one. One good idea is advanced, that everything good 

 must come from Mother Earth, and the illusion there is very a])pro- 

 priate. Am glad that this pa])er can go on our records. 



Dr. Huni])hrey- I am glad of this pajier. It has very much of 

 interest in the philosophic thought and research, and I regard it as 

 excellent. 



The President then introduced Mrs. Ira R. Curtis, of Marengo, 

 who gave a very eloquent address of nearly an hour's duration on 

 the interesting suhject of ''The World a Garden, and Humanity the 

 Gardener." 



REMARKS. 



Mr. Kellogg — There are thoughts that come to us when we 

 need more eloquence than we ]jossess to express them. Such papers 

 and the address as we have listened to this evening are the poetry of 

 our Society, and it is a grand thing to have them go in our volumes. 

 and we certainly are very much indebted to these ladies for their 

 excellent papers and talk, and I move a vote of thanks to them, and 

 a request that Mrs. Curtis prepare her address for publication. 



The motion was carried by a unanimous vote. 



Mrs. (,'urtis said that her speech had been entirely extemi)or;i- 

 neous and it would be impossible for her to reproduce it for publica- 

 tion, and she would be ol)liged to decline. 



The Society adjourned until to-morrow morning at V) o'clock. 



THIRD DAY — Morning. 



At half past nine. Thursday morning, the meeting was called to 

 order by the President, and upon his request Mr. Minkler opened 

 the meeting with prayer. 



