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his Bible and searched for that old text. I am a very unworthy 

 man to say this, but let me tell you what he found. This is what 

 he got, and I tell you this because this is what I have got in 

 my heart. My sympathy goes out to these people who need 

 farm education. If I was one of these people back upon the 

 hill, vv^ho have to fight their way up, I should know how to 

 look at it better from their point of view, but I know what 

 it is to be denied and to be misjudged by those who think 

 they are not worthy of their care. Rut this is what the old 

 man found when he opened the book : "Jesus walked by the 

 seaside, and he saw a man that was blind from his birth, and 

 the disciples asked him, saying, 'Master, who did sin, this 

 man or his parents, that he was born blind?' And the 

 Master answered them, saying, 'Neither hath this man sinned 

 nor his parents, but that the work of God should be made mani- 

 fest in him.' " And like a flash the thing came to that man's mind 

 that he was working upon, that that hateful child was a part 

 of his life, a part of his home, and that the man's character 

 and patience were at stake, that with patience and strength 

 he might finally win the child and make him worthy in a 

 larger way. And friends, therein lies the real problem and 

 the real opportunity of farm education. By untiring 

 strength, by patience and ambition to succeed in this mighty 

 work which lies before us, the fight can be won. You who 

 have been helped, you who have won in a large way in the 

 struggle, it is up to you to do your share with tliose who look 

 forward, that the works of God may be made manifest in 

 them. 



I thank you. 



The Toastmaster : We all of us like a dollar. We like 

 the feeling of it, and we like to hear them jingle in our pock- 

 etc. Most of us have got enough Yankee blood in us perhaps to 

 be able to get some dollars to travel along with, but the trou- 

 ble with the most of us is to know how to keep them. We 

 have with us to-night a gentleman who is going to talk to us 

 about fifteen minutes and tell us what the trouble is, why we 

 cannot keep our money when we get it. We have with us 



