THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



for it. Scarcity makes it costly. It commands more in the market 

 than education, genius or skill. As an investment it yields the largest 

 per cent; it is a treasure that indicates a prince." 



"The unfolding bud, the silent carpeting of the earth with living 

 green, the vast workshop of nature where force is struggling with 

 the atoms, the trembling crust of the earth, the rolling ocean, the 

 solemn march of worlds through infinite space, the eternal vigil of 

 the stars — these are exhibitions of power. The secret of power is 

 knowledge. Knowledge uncaps the wheels and turns the mainspring ; 

 it steps upon the engine and seizes the lever; it bands the continents 

 with iron ; it transmits its commands under the ocean ; Oh ! it is grand 

 to enter the arcana of God and converse with the Infinite. Yet the 

 possession of knowledge is nothing when compared with character." 



"The advent of Christ aroused and intensely excited the be- 

 lieving world. He took ignorant men from their fishing smacks upon 

 Galilee, and in three years, gave them such an education and such a 

 preparation for effective work as no college has ever been able to 

 duplicate." 



"The highest attainment on earth is a perfect manhood. Christ 

 came not to make angels, but to make men — men of his own royal 

 type. He died not to glorify us hereafter, but to glorify us here. 

 The hereafter is simply a sequence of the here." 



AT MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL 

 COLLEGE. JUNE 30, 1894. 

 "Wealth lies in the utilizing of waste. Our city gas works were 

 frequently run at a loss till the by products became of value — coal 

 tar, naphtha, carbolic acid, paraffin and the aniline dyes. Our canned 

 meat industry could not exist were it not for the profits derived from 

 the offal in leather, curled hair, combs, buttons, butter, glue and fer- 

 tilizers. In the waste of the farm is the fortune of the planter. If 

 the insects and the harmful seeds could be converted into poultry and 

 eggs; if grasses could be turned into beef, mutton and wool, if the 

 waste of forest could add its contribution to the general good; if 

 the apple, the peach, the pear, the plum and the cherry could 

 everywhere be substituted for roadside thickets, brier patches and 

 hillside coverings, it would be the inauguration of the millennium of 

 agriculture. Applied science is to discover how these can be profit- 

 ably utilized." 



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