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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



station, ready to pour out all he information they had. I only ohtained 

 a glimpse of what was doing in dry farming and since then I have tried 

 to keep in touch with it and tell our people about it. Now I have come 

 to note the gathered experience of the past three years, and I want to 



Truth Should Be Known. 



say this straiight )away, let us get to bed rock and have the actual facts 

 and living truth. It will do no one any good to represent things as 

 better than they are, and it would be a crime to make them appear 

 worse. I have kept in touch so far as I could and have a mass of in- 

 stances reported of the good work done. I want to see these verified. 

 A careful persual of the proceedings of the Salt Lake conference left on 

 me the impression that wittingly or unwittingly, in some cases the whole 

 details were not told, especially in the matter of rainfall. The re- 

 sults were given, but not all of the particulars. Now, this question of 

 precipitation is the very pith and essence of the whole matter. 



"This week I find in the home of dry farming opinions somewhat 

 mixed. There are many enthusiastic supporters. There are some un- 

 believers, and some doubting Thomases, willing to believe, but whose 

 faith is as I heard a gentleman express it, 'In the twilight yet.' Of 

 course, there are some men born doubting, and perhaps it is as well 

 there are, for we are apt to receive too readily what we desire to be- 

 lieve. 



"Let us stick to the Great Apostle's injunction, 'To prove all things 

 and hold fast that which is good.' Personally, so far as I know, I am 

 a believer, but I will be glad to have my faith further confirmed. I 

 want what I know now made good, for I feel the responsibility of my 

 position. I want to take a message to our people and it must be a 

 true one. I want it to be a message of gladness, but on a good founda- 

 t'on, right on the bedrock. 



"Let every man consider he is in the place where he is demanded 

 of conscience to speak the truth, the whole truth, concealing and over- 

 stating nothing. Then shall we do glorious work, and to the end of the 

 world the message will go, bringing honor to you, and glory to the land, 

 that has started this great work for the good of the world at large. 



Australia. 



"I have been asked to talk of Australia, but time will not permit me 

 to say much. It is a land geographically apart, the oldest country on 

 the globe geographically, the youngest developmentally. 



"In the working of the great designs of Providence this great laud 

 was reserved, as it seems, specially for the Anglo-Saxon race. Nations 

 came and went, civilizations grew and decayed, yet away in the south 

 this great silent land, one-fifth of the globe, was kept free from the 

 disabilities of older lands, from their wars, their pests, their diseases, 

 their physical drawbacks, kept a virgin country with but few inhabi- 

 tants for the race most fitted to develop it. 



