The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-28

raised of hogs and reared of children
7 was reared in Lawrence county. and
we all attended meetings, and when
we got religion we shouted and hit
each other in the back and did the
good old time way. few years later
when l went to New York to study
medicine, 1 went into one of those fine
city churches where the seats are so
soft that you want to clutch at some
thing and think you are never going
to stop going down. Well after the
sermon they called for mourners Just
as we did in the country, and they
went up. By and by they sang the dox-
ology, and I thought now 1t is time to
go. but no, the preacher said let US
pray" Then they sung the doxology
again and prayed again and kept on
at that, and by and by l asked lady
sitting near me what kind of church
that was and she said II was a Meth
odst Episcopal Church. But said I. is
this like the Methodist EPISCOPAL
Church, South. Oh. yes. she said, Just
the same and found out that each
time they sang the doxology somebody
had got religion. just the same as we
got with shouting and clapping of
hands. only it was in different way.
and Just as orderly and systematic as
a machine. 1t was the same religion
either way. but there was a difference
in the point of view.
Now. gentlemen, we doctors go off
sometimes to study. We have to do II.
IL we did not you would not send for
US. We have to keep up with the dis
coveries in our profession. There is
a heap for us to learn, and I have stud
led my profession ever since l was if
teen years old, and have still to keen
up with it or the sick will send for
somebody else. So you gentleman
come here to study the science of rails
ing crops and stock.
The farmers of Alabama are taxed
specifically about $4,000 a year This
is tax on guano. and it is all right
1t is necessary that the fertilizers YOU
use be good and pure and as you can
not tell about this yourself you must
have an expert chemist, who can o.
X. them for you. You can tell after
you have grown the crop, oh, yes, but
that is too late Like the man who
puts the gun to his cheek to see If 1t
is loaded. Chemistry is in itself a
profession that 1t takes years to ac-
qufre and part of this tax goes to test
your fertilizers, and see that they are
good. Portionsr of the tax go to main
tanning the nine district agricultural
schools, and the Canebrake Expert
-''N'i' 'N"'i'h' Aou get DUCK from THIS
tax more than you put out There are
no taxes you pay that mean so much
to you as this fertilizer tax means to
you and your children in the agricul-
tural advantages afforded by it to Won
and your children.
Gentlemen / want you all to awake
up to the fact of what we have in this
state. God gave us nature and natural
laws, and He has never done anything
else in the way of manufacture God
has quit making dirt. 1t is mans place
to develop 1t. God has stopped making
earth, whether you take the Bible or
evolution to explain its existence
mere are no more worlds being made
that men are going to get to, except
those already provided for us, and /
am not quite sure which one Is for ia
by the way. But God has given us the
right to develop what He has given.
There are only three great forces in
the world, gravity, elasticity and CON
tractility out of these forces all 9TH
ers grow, and the applications of them
FORM the grounds for patent, but the
FORCES themselves can never be patent
ca. Ihey are open to you. Now, gem
tlemen, Will you throw upon these
great problems of nature and natural
development. the light of education
ana Intelligence. God has spread he
lore you the store house of nature.
laden with resources that are match
Tess and says to you. go forth and
possess 1t. Follow your duty.