Year: 1878

and changes in the constitutions OF
both State and County Oranges as
experience has shown to be neces-
sary, viii prove highly beneficial,
and we urge you to a renewal of
your efforts and zeal, with the con
fident hope of soon making our
Order one of the established insti-
tutions of the country, for it is one
that promises more good to the la
boring men, and, indeed to all in
dustrial classes, than any other
secular organization that has yet
claimed their support.


We are greatly encouraged by the
manifest evidence of the TACT that
there now prevails amongst Patrons
a more just conception of the pur-
pose and methods of the Order, and
a growing conviction among farm
ers and Patrons of the necessity of
a more united effort to protect and
promote their interests, more gen
eral inquiry for the best methods OF
culture, the best implements, and
the conditions essential to success,
as well as a fuller recognition of the
want of higher intelligence to di-
rect the operations of the farm, and
a just sense of the duties and
responsibilities of good citizenship.


In view of these facts, we regard
the present as a most suspicious
time for a. general advance, along
the whole line, of the Grange forces
of the State, and the early realiza
ton of the truth that within the
reach of those engaged in the vari
Gus forms of husbandry known
amongst us, there is no agency SO
well calculated to increase their
social pleasures, their growth in
practical knowledge, to enlarge theiI
| influence as a class, and to perfect
them in their vocation, as the Order
of Patrons. We must give an i'm
petus to our cause that will vitalize
and inspire with fresh vigor the
tagging energies of a lukewarm
membership wherever it may exist.


In urging a renewal of effort OF
your part, brethren, to build up odl
Order and to develop its aptitudes
ior the promotion of our social, edu
catlonal and material interests, Lei
US profit by our past experience
and guard against those errors anc
mistakes which have proved so un
favorable to our progress hereto
fore, and like a good general who
advances cautiously after calculat
ing we'll the nature of the obstacles
to be overcome and the chances o
success. let us 60 forward Will
clearly defined purposes, ever striv
ing to diffuse throughout the Orde
the spirit which Investigates anC
seeks truth for its guide.


Realizing that many Oranges ar
dormant for want of proper instruc
ton, and many have become luke
warm from the same cause, we urg'
upon the former in their efforts t
reorganize, and those which maj
have delayed their annual elections
the importance of exercising grea
care in the selection Of officers, for
whilst each member should endeav
or to qualify himself for any duty o
position in the Grange. until all be
come imbued with the spirit of th'
Order, only those best qualitieG
should be chosen for important po
| sitions; this becomes more appar
ent whea it is considered that jus
comprehension of its principles
| purposes and methods is necessar.
to awaken a proper interest an'
zeal aud 10 secure effective cooper
alton amongst members.


There should be incalcated
proper sense OF the obligation th
Patron assumes that the secrets o
the Order may be more CAREFUL.
guarded and the duties OF the Patrol
! more fully observed. Ii is mad