No. 4.] HARNESS YOUR FORCES. 11 



world needs is individualit}' ; and individuality is born alone 

 of necessity. The force of opposition, the press of adverse 

 circumstances, the struggle for mastery through the com- 

 plete harnessing of all the forces, — these are the factors 

 which call out the talents and set the seal on the forehead of 

 the man. Life may be made so easy that self-culture and 

 self-reliance will not be considered the all-in-all in the 

 making of the man. 



The individual without imagination is to be pitied. The 

 activities of the present demand men who see and think and 

 act. We must be inspired b}^ noble and real convictions, 

 and plant ourselves by the side of those declared by Emer- 

 son to be " appointed l)y God to stand for a fact." Organ- 

 ization can do much, but only as individuals use it for the 

 upbuilding of self through harnessed forces. Perfect yonr 

 organizations for greater service. Put into them all of the 

 individuality possible. Keep clear the burden of individual 

 responsibility, and, above all, the certainty that there is to 

 come in the near future the greatest uplift ever realized in 

 New England agriculture, and that all these agencies are to 

 play an important part in the forward movement of the 

 hour. 



We boast of what the grange has done, but what concerns 

 us most is what it is to do. Where it is strongest, there 

 your agriculture is most active. It is an agricultural organ- 

 ization, founded to promote the industry, and its advance- 

 ment must be the controlling purpose of the patrons. 

 Whatever best serves the country towns best serves the 

 farms ; whatever makes active the desire for larger crops 

 and herds increases the permanent wealth of the State ; and 

 whatever leads to a clearer insight into the problems of 

 growth adds to the prosperity of all. The grange must be 

 more active along educational lines for the great majority. 

 Systems must be reconstructed to aid the many, not ludd for 

 the benefit of the few. More pride must be stimulated in 

 rural life. The defacement of farm property must cease. 

 God never made the rocks and trees for advertising bill 

 boards. Here is work, hard work, for the grange ; and only 

 by seizing these larger problems and cementing the members 



