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of the matters which we can properly refer to them when 

 they are in proper shape. Tlien it would come to you with 

 some authority and you would know what is the best way. 



Eecess until 2 o'clock. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by Vice- 

 President Hyde, who introduced as the lecturer of the after- 

 .noon Mr. L. F. Scott, of Bethlehem. 



FAEM LIFE AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT SHOULD 



BE. 



BY F. L. SCOTT. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I aw used to "farm life," but not much used to writing and 

 reading lectures, but this one was written sitting in the same chair 

 in which the great Doctor Bellamy sat to write all his sermons, 

 and perhaps that may in part account for the line of thought in 

 the fore part of this lecture upon '■^ Farm Life as it was, as it is, 

 and as it should be." 



And in speaking of farm life as it was we have to go back to the 

 first farmer. After God had created the world, and all things else 

 were created, then He created man, and gave him a larger farm 

 than any one now on the earth ; so large that it took four large 

 rivers to water it, embracing nearly all the eastern country, or, in 

 fact, the whole world. To stock this large farm He gave him 

 cattle and dominion over every living and creepmg thing. He 

 also gave him the seed of every plant and herb on the earth, that 

 nothing should be lacking to carry on the farm. Then He told 

 him to dig, and eat bread by the sweat of his brow. Now this 

 shows that our Creator designed that man, whom He had created 

 in his own image, should be a farmer, but Satan came and told the 

 farmer that he "need not dig," and that if he vrould eat of a tree 

 of knowledge he would not want to dig. And Satan is teUing our 

 sons and our daughters the same thing to day. It is very evident 

 that God created the land for man to cultivate. He also created 

 rivers, creeks, and springs, like veins in the human body. These 

 ■ were to water the earth, that it might bring forth, when the hus- 



