IN MEMORIAM, E. J. CUTIS. 415 



It would be impossible to give any notice of the deceased that 

 professed to accord with the facts without alluding- to his firm be- 

 lief in the Bible as the word of God and his earnest wish to conform 

 his life to its teachings. Its truths were to him more than a mere 

 belief; they were a practical experience. He regarded this life as a 

 season of preparation for a higher and better. He had a presenti- 

 ment that his time had nearlj^ come, and his one wish was so to live 

 and act that the suddenness of the stroke would find him prepared. 

 He felt assured beyond doubt that "when our earthly house of this 

 tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not 

 made with hands eternal in the heavens." 



H. Tanner, Howard Lake. 



My first acquaintance with the late Mr. Cutts began by meeting 

 him in an institute audience. I was told that he was a successful 

 grape grower, and was also told that he was apt as a teacher and 

 could readily tell to others what he knew himself: so I asked him 

 to take a part in our institute sessions and suggested that he use 

 our black-board and give us a short talk upon his method of grow- 

 ing grapes. Mr. Cutts very modestly acquiesced in my request 

 and in an impromptu manner gave us a very interesting talk, using 

 the black-board to make plain to us his system of grape growing. 

 I well remember how nicely he caught the attention of that audi- 

 ence and held it until the close of the discourse. I observed at that 

 time that he had the ability to impress what he had to say upon 

 his hearers and that his general manner was such as to create con- 

 fidence on the part of all who heard him that he was talking about 

 things with which he was well acquainted and in which he had 

 made a positive success. I then made a minute of him as a prob- 

 able future member of our institute corps. When the appropriate 

 time came I sent a letter to him asking him to unite with us in our 

 institute work and received a very prompt reply, very modestly 

 disavowing any claim to ability as a speaker or teacher upon 

 the public platform but expressing his readiness to do the best 

 that he could, and asked that I should be very frank with him 

 in pointing out his defects so thathe might remedy them if he could' 

 and if not that he should be quietly dropped out of the institute 

 force. This letter of itself only added to my confidence in the man, 

 and, as he began his work, I soon saw that what he had written me 

 was but an honest expression of his thought and was not actuated 

 by false tnodesty. 



We had the pleasure and satisfaction of having Mr. Cutts with us 

 during one institute year. That year's work in horticulture upon 

 our institute platform has produced an effect that will be lasting. 

 In my opinion the horticultural society has always been fortunate 

 in the men who have represented their interests. That work has 

 engaged the efforts of practical, thoughtful and influential men, and 

 not the least among them was Mr. Cutts. 



We found hitn an exceedingly agreeable companion in institute 

 travel and intervals. He was always loyal to the institute and to 



