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Tilt; motion being seconded, it wns afiroed to. 



The rUESIDENT: Nominations are in order. 



A Member: I nominate M. N. Clark. 



MR. CLARK: I represent the C range on that committee and i here- 

 fore decline. I move that this Board elect Jason Sexton. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to. 



DR. ARMSIJV: The meeting of the Executive Committee of the 

 allied organizations will be held in the ante-room, on the right as 

 3'ou go out, immediately on the adjournment of this session. 



MR. HERR: I think it is customary to have three members of that 

 committee elected and we have only elected one. 



MR. HUTCHISON: It is only necessary to have one elected to 

 represent this Board on the Executive Committee. 



The PRESIDENT, (Governor Pennypacker) endeavored to state 

 a motion to adjourn, and numerous calls being made for him to ad- 

 dress the meeting, he responded as follows: 



ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR PENNYPACKER. 



Gentlemen: It is a ver}' great pleasure to me to be here with you 

 at your annual meeting, to see that you have so large an attendance 

 and to learn of the very successful work which you are accomplish- 

 ing. That work is of the utmost importance. One set of people, 

 who belong to the same Aryan race from which we are descended, 

 made it part of their religion and thought, and taught their people, 

 that the only honorable avocation for mankind was the cultivation 

 of the soil and the raising of cattle. Zoroaster said, "he who sows 

 corn sows holiness." I don't go quite so far as those people, and yet, 

 tc a great extent, in my judgment, we ought to agree with that. 



As we look around the world and see the great rewards which 

 society, as it is constituted, gives to him who merely succeeds in 

 accomplishing such results as heap up great fortunes, we sometimes 

 stop, properh', to incfaire after all what is the value of it, what bene- 

 fit has he conferred upon humanity? The result of it is that no 

 matter how complicated the process is, the results of the labors of 

 the masses of men are accumulated in the possession of one or 

 a few individuals and that is all there is in it. It is not the creation 

 of benefit or wealth, it is the mere accumulation, and I think that 

 the man who can look over his life and can say that he has made two 

 blades of grass grow where one grew before, who can say that he 

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