The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-03-21
THE PATRIOTIC HEN
MANS GRAND GIFT
Natures Moving Picture Show, ms
Seen by G. III. Carroll

Miller, March 1S.-When Nicodem,
us got up In the middle OF the night
to inquire what he must do to be saw.
ed he had a weighty question to con
tend with So, these days, when mar
Is wondering what he must do 10 BE-
fed he has an equally serious prob
lem on his hands. Mother Nature
made q wise provision for feeding her
children when she covered the earth
with a thin coating OF soil as a labor.
atory through which the food must
be produced. This thin peeling OF soil
Is all that stands between man and
starvation. But, thanks to kind Ma
ture, the grains and grasses have az,
ways been ready to contribute to
mans support. The domestic animals
have done their part-and "All flesh
is grass" says the Bible. The COW,
for instance, what would the world
do without milk and butter and beef?
The hog is doing his share, and a BIG
share ii is. the simple headed sheep
has not only furnished us mutton,
hut has given us wool to keep us
warm up here in this cold zone
There is no substitute for wool, and
II must be grown on the sleeps back
before u a be worn on mans back.
The humble hen has never been
known to fail. In many ways she
Gems to be the grandest gift to man
kind of all earths creatures. She lays
her eggs and matches her brood and
then she teaches her chickens how to
make a living. She contributes TWEEN
ty billion eggs, and a half billion
chickens to the tables OF the American
people annually. II is interesting to
hear her laugh and cacklc when she
has laid an egg. She is proud of
what she has done, and she has a
right to be She is doing her part to
win the war. Somebody says, "You
act as If a hen could talk" She can.
Have you not heard her call her
chickens, and have you not seen them
come? Did you eve see anything so
true TO its natural instincts as the
hen? When on her nest storms may
blow and typhoons roar, but not a
muscle does she move. Death has no
terror FOR her. She holds her ground
like a good soldier. She knows her
business, She tries no experiments.
She makes NJ mistakes. We might all
learn something from the hen.
All the forces in Nature, like the
soil, the grains and grasses, the do
mestic animals and the barnyard
fowls. make up n great schoOlhouse
or kindergarten for our education.
They form a sort of moving university
like one great moving picture show,
where man may be educated free of
all cost. Nature conducts a great
school. Her doors stand open wide.
Tuition is free. Huxley, 1.-The greatest
scientist since the world was known"
says the Britannica, uses this Ian
guage: Education is the training OF
the intellect in the laws of Nature"
A preacher in the largest Congrega-
tional church in the world said q year
age. Nature is Gods Bible, as holy.
as divine, as direct, as inspired as the
printed Bible" That is so, or II is not
so. believe every word of it. II it is
so, why is 1t that sc many preachers
will stand up and say, Behold, God
spake three thousand years ago?'
Why not say, BEHOLD, God speaks
right now?" Mr.. Emerson was lectur-
ing to a class of divinity students in
! Boston and he said, Don't teach that
God was, but that He is; not that he
spaka, but that he speaketh." He says
further. that a poor factory hand in
CONTINUED to last page)