THE MAN 



the "good meal" consisting of all the corn cake a man's appe- 

 tite would demand, with no accessories. 



His logic and his invincible arguments gradually won a 

 large and intelligent following and in this regard Doctor Hop- 

 kins reversed the ancient and honorable saying that a prophet 

 is not without honor save in his own country. It was in his 

 own state that he first won a following by means of his irre- 

 sistible logic, his experiments and his demonstrations, all point- 

 ing to the same thing, namely, the reasonableness of his doc- 

 trine of the need and the methods of securing a permanent 

 agriculture. 



And they came from the ends of the earth to study with 

 him — from Egypt, from China, from India, from Assyria, and 

 even from Nazareth. Finally, he was called to the seat of 

 modern civilization, and stood with Paul on Mars Hill, de- 

 claring the duty of man to the soil upon which he subsists, and 

 its full discharge as a necessary means of beating his way up- 

 ward to his God. 



HIS IDEALS 



Doctor Hopkins had but one purpose in life, and that was 

 service, particularly along the lines in which he had special 

 training. He was not one who assumed that all his obliga- 

 tions could or should be discharged by his scientific achieve- 

 ments — far from it. He was a good citizen, interested in the 

 details of community and public life. He accepted and dis- 

 charged all the ordinary duties of citizenship, and when time 

 passed with no family, he invited into the full privileges of 

 his home two boys who were homeless, and to them he gave 

 all that he had beyond the devotion which he felt and lav- 

 ished upon her whom he had asked to share his labors and 

 his fortunes. He gave liberally to worthy enterprises, and 

 from a young man he tithed all his earnings: one tenth went 

 regularly to the Lord. His life was clean in the strictest sense. 

 He had an especial abhorrence of drugs in any form, hence 

 his aversion to tobacco and liquor, which in a way he classed 



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