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share through the fields of ozone he sowed the furrows with stars, 

 each shining in beauty all his own. 



As you stand a victor under the arch over which is written "All 

 things are yours," and you are greeted as the children of a king with 

 the salutations of the universe, you will look out on those landscapes 

 and find them all planned with art and taste surpassing human 

 thought. No two stars alike. One is an opal, another a ruby ; there 

 a topaz, and that one an amethyst ; there is a turquoise and that 

 monster ball is a diamond in full bloom. Higher up there is a chal- 

 cedony, and there is an emerald, and farther on is a sapphire. What 

 a garden to bloom before us as the ages are marching by ! 



Rev. C. S. Harrison, York, Nebraska. 



Such being our destiny we ought to pay more attention to the 

 beautiful down here. We raise great crops to feed our bodies ; we 

 raise fruits to please our taste ; we ought to raise something to feed 

 the soul. 



Minnesota — land of the sky-tinted waters — was a delightful land, 

 one unbroken charm. Men came in and have robbed the state of its 

 primitive beauty. Many have built homes which have been as 

 carbuncles, blotches on the fair face of nature. This is simply cruelty 

 to God. I used to wander delighted through the big woods to the 

 north of us, and now right there you will find places where every 

 tree and shrub has been cut away, and a lone, brown, weather beaten, 

 unsightly house stands out in the desolation. Every home should 



