The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-10-23

"N0 oeSLnnlng by CARRYING q
ride along the banks of the Clear Fork
and White Oak streams. Then thora
must be reservations for parks. gardens
and recreation grounds. Next comos
the question of buildings, and here we
must bear in mind that these are in
tact, or should be, the expression in
lumber brick and stone of the thought
Oh men and women as the eternal con-
dltlon under which folks should live
Consider for moment the different
impressions in this matter, which the
visitor carries away from the streets of
Chester, or Wells, Salisbury, and from
those OF town in our manufacturing
districts. Now, we hope that visitors
from the first will carry away with
them from this place the feeling that
We here have understood something of
what homes should be. Of course we
must act prudently and cut our coats
according to our cloth. We have no
money to spare for superfuous decor
atlon, and our first buildings, both pub
Tic and private. must be simple and
even rough IN material and construction.
But there is no reason whatever why
they should not at the same time be
slightly and good in form and proper
ton. And at this I hope we shall all
ann. We shall try to set you a good
example In the public buildings.
These will consist, in the first instance,
OF church and school house, and then
a court house and town hall, which will
be built as soon as we can see our way
to doing-so prudently, and can make
arrangements with the government of
the State for our establishment as
country town. We shall also promote,
as far as We can, good habits in this
matter of building, by providing plans
and models of houses of different sizes,
such as we think will suit the site, and
do us credit as a community.
Shall | carry you with me in the
next step? Hitherto we have been
concerned only in the first and most
necessary step of housing ourselves, but
now we have to ask, whether after we
are housed and living in our houses,
the idea of our common life and COM
mon interests must cease, and the iso-
lated struggle for existence in which
every mans hand will be for himself
and against his neighbors, must begin.
The survival of the fttest is recognized
as natural law, which means that men
will always live upon, and not for, one
another. Are we prepared to accept it
Internationally or to try how far it can
be modified by reason and agreement ?
| myself have no doubt that it was and
ought to be so modified, and that we
have good opportunity here for max
ing the attempt. And there is fortu-
nately no question as to the direction
which that effort should take in the
first instance. We have all of us q
number of imperative wants. which
must be provided for and satisfied day
by day. We want food, clothes, furni
ture and great variety of things, be-
sides which our nature and culture have
made all but essential to US. These
must all be provided here, either by
each of us for himself, or by some com
mon machinery. Well, we believe i
can be done boot by a common maehin
cry, in which we should like to SCI
: every one take a hand. We have /.
, commissary already established, anC
, have used that word rather than 'store
. to indicate orr own wishes and inten
tons, as commissary is especially 1
public institution.
: l must take you one step higher, ant
: then | have done. Hitherto we hav
2 been dealing with the outside only o
r our lives here and questioning how ia
5 the idea of community can be health
? ily realized in relation to these visibl
t material things which we can see an
8 taste and handle But we all know
r, and confess to ourselves, if not to other:
] that no success in dealing with or ha1
: ding these can satisfy us as men-c
n at any rate ought to satisfy us-ths
t we are one and all in contact with al
e living in world in which we have
n do with other things than those whic
S rust and moth can corrupt. But hel
r at once, it may be urged we are fghtin
l. against the Zeit Gheist-the spirit
l. our time, nowhere so strong and so d
e cided as here in America, if we mai
l. any effort to deal as q community wit
n the invisible. Here, at any rate, v
is may be told experience speaks empha
n ically, that men must be left free
l. follow the guidings of their own co
l. sciences. You may possibly succet
RI in supplying the material wants of a
" by one central organization started
a. once; but the spiritual wants you W
N leave, if you are wise, to find their oV
E, satisfaction, and develop in such dire
" tions and by such methods as chan
&c may determine.
Or We are putting up Temporal
Is building as church, in which the e
pertinent will be tried whether t
is members of different Christian den or
as nations can not agree well enough
n use one building for their several az
to of worship. In it | trust will alwa
ut lie heard tie common prayer OF IL
ly liturgy, which both in England a
e, America has proved itself the best {
at preston through many generations
as the joys, hopes and aspirations of lar
re portion of those who speak our |.
lc- guage; and has risen from innumeraI
We gatherings all round the globe, lad
us with confessions of our short comir
ey and appeals for guidance and streng
ew in the mighty work which has be
en- laid upon our race. am personal
1t. not without hope that the meaning a