ANNUAL REPORT— CON VENT I ON. 
IS 
pass. The thanks of the young and the benedictions of the old 
will hereafter rest upon all who shall aid the movement, fraught 
as it is, with untold good. 
I plead, gentlemen, for model schools, model school houses and 
model school grounds. It is in your power to make them. Create 
the demand, and model teachers enough will be found to lead your 
children in the way of truth. 
In conclusion, gentlemen, besides model schools, let us have 
model homes. Homes crowned with the clambering vine, amid 
the cooling shade of trees, surrounded with the verdant lawn, with 
pendent berries, with golden fruits and clusters of crimson grapes, 
homes graced with pictures, refined by books and gladdened with 
song. Homes in which there shall be no scorching blasts of pas¬ 
sion, nor polar storms of coldness and hate. Homes in which the 
wife and mother shall not lose all her attractive charms by unre¬ 
mitting drudgery and toil; nor the husband and father starve his 
brain and dwarf his soul by hours of over-work. Homes in which 
happy children shall ever see the beauty of love and the beauty 
of holiness. Homes of plenty, homes of sympathy, homes of 
self-sacrifice, homes of devotion, homes of culture, homes of love. 
Angels from the fruits and flowers and streams and fellowships of 
the home in the upper Paradise would be lured to dwell in these 
earthly Edens. 
The people’s poet truthfully wrote— 
“ This world is full of beauty— 
It might be full of love.” 
But out of the very heart of truth he struck the divine song— 
“ This world is full of beauty, 
When the heart is full of love.” 
That is what we need—love in its manifold forms; love of na¬ 
ture, love of truth, love of integrity, love of our work, love for 
man, love for God. Gain this love ! It is the open sesame to all 
the mysteries of matter and mind. It is the soul of all enthusi¬ 
asm; of all insight; of all success. Love virtue— 
She will teach you how to climb 
Higher than the sphery chime. 
Or if virtue feeble were, 
Heaven itself would stoop to her. 
