PART VII 



Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association 

 Eighteenth Annual Meeting 



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921 

 Morning Session. 



The President : Gentlemen, you will please come to order. The 

 invocation will be offered by Rev. W. P. McCormick, of the Elm- 

 wood United Presbyterian Church, of Des Moines, Iowa. Let us 

 all rise while Brother McCormick offers the invocation. 



Rev. W. P. McCormick: Our Heavenly Father, we desire to 

 bow before Thee this morning, acknowledging Thy sovereignty over 

 us, knowing that in Thee we live and move and have our being, 

 and that we are responsible to Thee and accountable to Thee, and 

 that all we have is from Thee, and, truly, dear Lord, we can return 

 thanks to Thee because Thou hast been good to us. We think 

 of our misfortunes and difficulties and trials, and they seem dark 

 to us, dear Lord, but it is only because we forget, perhaps, the 

 misfortunes and trials and difficulties of others who are so infi- 

 nitely worse off than we, and again we say, dear Lord, Thou hast 

 been good to us. Thou hast opened up Thy hand and supplied our 

 needs, and perhaps our difficulties come from the failure of men 

 to co-operate, to think clearly, to act rightly, and it is with those 

 things in mind that we ask Thy blessing upon us today, that these 

 men gathered here today may act in accordance with Thy will, and 

 some solution may be found for the great problems that confront 

 them, and that they may be more largely blessed of Thee and more 

 largely used for Thy glory. Bless the institutions of this land of 

 which we are a part, and which we love — guarantees of our liberty. 

 We pray we may continue to have that leadership of this land of 

 ours that will emphasize these things and bring us larger inherit- 

 ances of these things in the future. Bless us nationally, inter- 

 nationally, individually, that we may talk with Thee and find larger 

 and larger expresion of Thy purposes in our lives — we ask in Thy 

 name. Amen. 



The President : As you are all aware, this is a joint meeting with 



