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first mystery that ever came under his observation, and it has not yet been solved, notwithstanding the wonderful progress made by our agricultural col leges. Let him find out, if he can, why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and then give white milk with yellow butter in it. Will the mystery disturb him? No. He will enjoy the milk anc the butter without worrying about the mystery involved in it. And if he solves the mystery of milk, let him investigate the onion. In the vegetable world the onion is the “crime that smells to heaven." It is the scavenger of the garden. Its roots gather up all the stray odors and strange flavors that .the other plants reject in disgust and the invisible chef within makes them over into a whole some food that becomes the incense of ithe kitchen. The onion is an import ant unit in God’s creation, and it need not be ashamed to swing high its ill- scented censer when the children of the soil assemble in the autumn to pay their annual homage to the Maker of them all. And so we might take any other vegetable or fruit, or melon or berry. The blush upon the peach is in striking contrast to the serried walls of the seed within. Who will explain the mystery of ithe apple, the queen of the orchard, or the nut with its meat, its shell, and its outer cover ing? Who taught the tomato vine to fling its flaming many-mansioned-fruit before the gaze of the passer-by, While the potato conceals its priceless gifts within the bosom of the earth?—Wm. J. Bryan. m m PRAYER AS A TEACHER An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with and conquest over a single passion or subtle bosom sin will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty and form the habit of re flection than a year’s study in the schools without them.—Coleridge.
MRS. ZELLA M. HALL Superintendent of Women. She announces ker en gagement to Rev. Franklin G. Huling, a former B. I. student, now a Baptist pastor in Los Angeles. L em an C. Hobie, ’19 began an ev an g e listic cam paign D ecem ber 30, a t A rk p o rt, N. Y. He re p o rts th a t in fo u r and one- h a lf w eek s’ w o rk p rio r to th is field, th e L ord g av e him over 100 souls. The follow ing is a lis t of stu d e n ts in th e C orrespondence School who have r e ceived certificates d u rin g 1920: M ary J. Seelig, course No, 1; L ovisa C lark, course No. 1; Mrs. M yra M arshall, course No. 1; Mrs. A. Monica Hull, course No. 1; Mr. E. C. Saxton, course No. 1; S arah J. McQuaid, course No. 1; Mrs. Geo. H un ter, course No. if A lan D ouglas, course No. 2; Mrs. A nna C. C rites, course No. 3; E zra Sander, course No. 3»; Mrs. S a ra h P a rr, course No. 3; Jo h n Salvner, course No. 3; M a rg are t Myers, course No. 3; C. H. H ouston course No. 4; .Jas. W. H ail, course. No. 4 ;- F lo r ence D avis, course No. 4; J. F . B. E aston, course No. 4. NUTS FOR NUTS TO CRACK !Sometimes I go into a community and find a young man who has come in from the country, obtained a smatter ing of knowledge and then his head swells and he begins to swagger around and say that an intelligent man like himself cannot afford to have any thing to do with anything that he can not understand. Poor boy, he will be surprised to find out how few things he will be able* to deal with if he adopts that rule. I feel like suggesting to him that the next time he goes home to show himself off to his parents on the farm he address himself to the
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