Rev. Wm. Gardam's Sermon

Referrinsr to the unrest and the morbid condition and appetite for the extravagant which characterizes the American people at the present time, Kev. Wm. Gardam spoke last Sunday morning in the iollowing terms: "ïhen, too, there is such an indefiniteness, sueh a strange, morbid character about modern hunger. We are much like Tennyson says, like 'an infant crying in the night, and infan crying for the light, aud with no language but a ery.' "We want, we know not what. We are restless, uneasy and weary. and our cry is often queruious. for the unattainable. The old order ehanges. and has changed, and that which seemed (o satisfy the hunger of our fathers and forefathtrs seems, when nffared to us, to leave us still hnngering. You see it in the literary spirit of the times. v'e crave, not novelty, not freshness, not the luscioiis fruits of cultivated genius. We are in such a fever that all our tastes are of the most morbid sort, and so fiction. much of it, is keyed to tliis taste. And the newspaper of the da v, is a fair index of this unrest and fever. I do bel eve, when the thoughtf ui reader at the i-nd of the next century shall take up the average metropolitan paper with colured supplement, he will find it hard to believe that he could have descended from such an ancestry. It is a queer cry the world is uttering, a strange hunger, gnawing at the vitáis of our modern life." If the free distribution of seeds by the United States agricultural department is to be continued, as seems probable, then some better plan of sending out the packages ought to be hit upon than leaving it all to the congressmen. Members of congress have other thirigs to do than Bending out seeds to their constituents. The conditions of the country have changed so much since the seed distribution law was made that now less than half the voters are agriculturists. What do mercbants, manufacturers and professional men want with grain and vegetable seed? The right way would be for those wlio want the seed to write to the agricultural department themselves, certifyiug that they are bona fide farmers and that they want the. seed for actual use. As a matter of f act, the necessity of the scattering by the (Jnitcd States government of seeds through the length and breadth of this land no longer exists at all as it used to do. Now there are plenty of seedsmen in nearly all parts of the nation fully up to the times and ready to furnish the best and freshest seed at reasonable prices. So fax as possible this business ought to be left to go through the regular hannels of trade.