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try fair educates and interests. The church 

 crowns all in its ministrations of spiritual vision, 

 moral uplift, and insistence upon character as 

 the supreme end of life. 



But no institution can do the work of the 

 others. They are members one of another. 

 The hand cannot say to the foot, I have no need 

 of thee. All these things make for rural progress. 

 None can be spared. The Grange cannot take 

 the place of the church. The institute cannot 

 supplant the Grange. The college course can- 

 not reach the adult farmer. The experiment 

 station cannot instruct the young. The church 

 cannot secure reforms in taxation. 



These agencies may however co-operate. 

 Indeed the most rapid and most secure rural 

 progress, the broadest and soundest agricultural 

 growth, can not take place unless there be this 

 form of co-operation. There will come added 

 interest, increased efficiency, larger views, greater 

 ambitions in our agricultural development, if, 

 in each state, all of these forces work together. 



We may therefore welcome most cordially 

 the proposed plan of federating the various 

 agricultural societies of each state into one 

 grand committee organized for the purpose of 

 forwarding all the agricultural interests of that 



