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I do not know that anything- practical will come of what I have 

 said ; if it shall provoke a little discussion I shall be entirely con- 

 tent. I have not intended to put a wet blanket upon anybody. 

 If I have, let it remain, and the natural heat evolved by discussion 

 will put us into a perfectly calm, equable temperament, and we 

 shall rise to a better appreciation of the whole subject. 



Mr. Bartlett, of Brewer. I am not much of a farmer, and do 

 not know that I should speak here, but I admire to see systematic, 

 good farming ; because, as it was observed this forenoon, I think 

 a man, in order to be a good farmer, must be made for a farmer. 

 I hold that God has called people to different occupations. I was 

 brought up with the idea that some men were called to preach the 

 Gospel ; I believe it now ; and I believe that the same voice that 

 calls some men to preach the Gospel also calls others to be farm- 

 ers, and traders, and blacksmiths. The call comes by virtue of the 

 capacity to be farmers, traders or blacksmiths. No one can be a 

 successful farmer unless he has that call, any more than he can be 

 a successful physician or preacher without it. 



I make these remarks because our friend, the professor, has 

 gone a little into speculation. We have had what seems to me 

 something like the Millerite doctrine in regard to the world. Cer- 

 tain wise individuals have come to the conclusion, from particular 

 Scriptures and from study, that this world is to be destroyed by 

 fire. Our friend here is more logical ; he thinks that we shall 

 come to nothing unless we change our mode of farming, for the 

 earth on which we live is being used up as a means of supplying 

 food. It is said that this earth shall be the habitation of the 

 saints ; but I think it needs considerable repairing and putting in 

 order before it will be fit for them to dwell in. But the change is 

 going on, the'world is being repaired, and the human beings who 

 live on this earth are being prepared to inhabit this regenerated 

 world also. 



When our forefathers came to this country, most of them had 

 to use their muscles, and the best they could do was to raise that 

 kind of food that would make muscle ; but we find now, as our 

 friend has suggested, that this muscular process is being super- 

 seded by mechanical forces. Now, in order to live in this world, 

 in this better condition, we must have different food from what 

 our forefathers did ; we need a diff"erent product. These changes 

 are going on in the soil to lead us to raise what will snpply the 



