SIXTH ANNUAL TEAR BOOK — PART I. 69 



well off, and now is the dangerous time for the boy. He has 

 comparatively an easy time; but that boy will degenerate unless 

 you teach him higher things ; get closer down to the real truth, 

 so he may know something about the ways of God. 



I don't like to be away from home. This is awful hard work. 

 By the way, I am not doing any of it this winter. I expect you 

 will wonder why I do it. I went out just for a little while in 

 Ohio; I got heartily sick of it. I struck a little town, and the 

 chairman, when it came time to open the meeting, no one 

 was there, asked me xyhat to do. I told him to open the meeting 

 He says, "The Audience will come forward and we will open the 

 meeting with a song." Well, after a while we got along pretty 

 well. When the second day came I was awful tired. It seemed 

 to me a farce. I hadn't met the people very much ; I had told 

 them how to grow clover in clay soil and after a while make it 

 rich ; how to plow the land up, and so on. The second night, 

 some of the ladies came to me and said : "^h Wing, why don't 

 you come to our oyster supper ; you can come over there and eat 

 to the glory of God." I went over there and they sat me down 

 to a special table. Finally after some conversation, I made the 

 remark, "I wish you women would tell me why you come to the 

 institute." They looked surprised- "don't you want us to come?" 

 I love to talk to ladies. But I said, "What is it to you to listen to 

 talks about cows, and steers and hogs?" They were silent for 

 a little while ; then a little black-eyed woman said : "Maybe I can 

 tell you; my husband and I lived in the city until a few years 

 ago, and his health broke down;we came to the country and 

 bought a little farm; we are very much in debt; but we sat and 

 listened to every word that was said in this meeting; now we are 

 going home; we are just beginning to get hold, we just feel so 

 much confidence that we are going to get on." 



The President after calling the attention of the meeting to the 

 joint session of the Park and Forestry Association, Horticultural 

 Society and the State Farmers' Institute in the rooms of the 

 Horticultural Society at 8 o'clock P. M., declared the meeting 

 adjourned until 9 :30 o'clock A.M. Wednesday, December 13. 



