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meeting and leave a vvliolesome feeling of satisfaction and good-will 

 that will work wonders for the future meetings. 



Go ve, my brethren, and mark the perfect chairman, and note, that 

 if each succeeding institute is a little better than its predeces- 

 sor, you owe it partly at least to him; that he has put in motion and 

 fostered an influence that will spread throughout the length and 

 breadth of our great Commonwealth, and that will result in wider 

 knowledge and in better living for the men and the women who 

 dwell on the sloping hillsides and amid the green meadows of this 

 great Keystone of the federal arch. 



We have thus far treated the local lecturer as the entertainer, 

 rather than the one who needs to be entertained, and so he should 

 be considered; for, if he comes in the right spirit, he comes to give 

 of his knowledge and his experience, but to whom? Not to vacancy 

 and empty seats, but to a waiting, receptive gathering of men and 

 women w'ho need his help; and so we have given special emphasis 

 to the mean® for securing an audience, which will be the first step 

 in giving him the entertainment that will stimulate his brain and 

 give him fluency of speech. Another step in his proper entertain- 

 ment we have already hinted at, namely, a hearty hand clasp and 

 words of commendation, the verdict, "well done, good and faithful 

 servant," enunciated first by the chairman and repeated by his faith- 

 ful twelve. If that does not entertain him and make his soul wax 

 fat with satisfaction, he is a ghoul and not human; and we want 

 neither him nor any of his class to instruct us. 



Should the lecturer come from some little distance, he should not 

 be suffered to carry a dinner pail. Turn him over to the tender mer- 

 cies of the best nearby farmer, who will let him in on the ground 

 floor of a hospitable home, and though he be an angel unawares, he 

 will find entertainment that will warm his heart and make it glad. 

 The county chairman must be wide-awake with alertness to see to 

 this. He must be vigilant and tireless, doing the thing® to be done 

 iii their season, and by promptly discharging each duty as it comes, 

 be ready and prepared to meet the next need that confronts him. In 

 this w'ay he will deserve not only his own self respect, but will earn 

 The approbation and gratitude of the powers that appointed him, 

 and will stand approved as the servant who has been faithful in 

 little things, and so fitted for the higher trusts that may come his 

 way. These may seem like little things, but great results are always 

 made up of the aggregation of smaller details, which must not be 

 postponed nor neglected, else there will be only signal failure where 

 there ought to be success. 



In conclusion, let me say, blessed and honored shall that man be, 

 who is broad enough to take the small duties of life and weave them 



