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work. But it occurred to nie, Mr. Chairman, tliat the itinerary of the 

 speakers should be arranged, could he so arranged throughout the 

 State so tliat they would have their Sabbath rest and let them come 

 back to the Normal institute the following year and let the leaders 

 make a report, written oi- oral and have it printed in the proceedings 

 of this convention and have them let the people see what }>rogress has 

 been made in the counties and wherever there is anything necessary 

 to be remedied let them state it and if it hits us poor county chairmen 

 all right, we will stand it. If that could be done and the itinerary so 

 arranged that these good men that come around and assist us and do 

 such good work could make a report to this convention and have it 

 printed, then we could tell hoAV we were progressing. Because we 

 must progress. We cannot stand still. We must, as the gentleman 

 said last night, go to the top of the ladder. We must go on and if that 

 would do it I only make the suggestion for your consideration, and 

 if that can be done it seems to me there will be a little more know 

 lodge of the facts as to whether we are progressing or not. 



MR. LIGHT Y: Ladies and Gentlemen; T want first of all to 

 make a plea for our county chairmen. Perha])S it was said before 

 but it will bear repetition. I want to say that I would like anyone to 

 go through the State of Pennsylvania and try to find a better, a nobler 

 and a more honorable body of men than the men who have charge 

 locally of the farmers' institutes in the counties of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania. They have treated me royally from one end of the State to 

 the other. Brother Herr says that I have never been in his county. I 

 know that the brother is a cantankerous fellow and I have kept out of 

 it. 



I want to make the plea that Brother Peachey made. I think there 

 should be a clear understanding about that matter. I Avant to say to 

 you, my friends, that I don't believe up to this time I ever found a 

 man who could do seven days work in a week and continue it more 

 than about two weeks until he was out of commission so he was un- 

 able to do real good Avork. I made it a rule for the past two years not 

 to do any labor on the Sabbath day, particularly when I was in the 

 institute work, and I want to tell you, my friends, that the county 

 chairmen, not only one of them — I look at one just now, Brother 

 Glover, Avent out of his Avay quite a distance to get some men to come 

 and take charge of the Saturday afternoon and evening sessions to 

 let the State lecturers get out and get a little rest, and every county 

 chairman made strenuous effort to do this because before I started out 

 in the work last fall I just kindly requested that they make arrange- 

 ments so that the State lecturers could have the Sabbath rest. I be- 

 lieA^e that we should try to give the greatest good to the largest num- 

 bers. I believe, my friends, that there are places in the State of Penn- 

 sylvania Avhere it is necessary to hold Saturday cA'ening sessions. I 

 believe that you have got to get the peo])]e out to do the missionary 

 work and that you haA^e got to hold a Saturday CA^ening session and 

 there is lots of territory in Pennsylvania Avhere there is missionary 

 Avork needed and we cannot do the missionary work unless Ave get the 

 people out so that Ave can talk to them face to face, and Saturday 

 evening is the only CA^ening Ave can get them out. In the older places 

 where 1 have been and Avhere they are more up-to-date there is no 



