110 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1898. 



These things make us better. They are God's evangel of 

 beauty, and therefore the horticulturist has a wonderful honor 

 conferred upon him, for the lover of flowers is brought nearer 

 to the love of the infinite and the beauty of the Lord is upon 

 him. 



I am very glad to meet you ; I am glad to have a chance to 

 say a word, and exceeding glad to hear our brother here, the 

 minister, tell of the wonderful opportunity for growth. All 

 these things belong to us ; they are our heritage ; we claim 

 them as our right. 



Out in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, we are starting a col- 

 lege and we want to have a horticultural department. I believe 

 the better way to do is to encourage them, to let them realize 

 what can be accomplished. The girl is very nearly related to 

 the beauty of her flowers ; you can hardly tell where one leaves 

 off and the other begins. What we want is to teach the girls of 

 the West that they can wield the wand of the magician, and 

 clothe the prairie with beauty. 



Mr. Record. 



I have listened with a good deal of interest, and if I had 

 power to convey my ideas I would make some remarks, but I 

 would simply say that I have failed in my eflbrts in the past to 

 see that process of development that had been expounded to us 

 in nature. I had rather fall back on the religion which we have 

 given us in the Scriptures, and which, I think, no science has 

 yet, or ever will, entirely upset. They may at first seem to 

 contradict, and I think that even Mr. Darwin has got on some 

 wrong tracks. Our brother has not told yet in just what form 

 the flower or rose started, but has given us to understand that 

 by reason of its hard surroundings it was obliged to put out 

 these organs of self-defence. I do not know but man by reason 

 of his hard surroundings has been obliged to put out this very 

 perverse nature which we see working all through the world, 

 still I believe that the final regeneration of man will come about 

 in some other way than by merely cultivating that which is in 

 us. I believe that Jesus Christ said, "Ye must be born again," 



