The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-15
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MR. RoosEVELT's ADDRESS.
What He Said to the Long Island Bibl
Socisty


What He Said to the Long Island Bible
Society
The Post has been requested to publish
the following extracts from an address
by Vice President Roosevelt before the
Long Island Bible society at Oyster Bay.
Mr. Roosevelt was elected vice president
Of this society. He said In part:
sometimes, In hsatly putting the stress
that we do upon Intelligence, we forget
the fact that there is something that
counts more. Itves good thing to be
clever, TO he abkisdrd smart but 1t is a
thcir expression nlsshe ldeealogue and the
thing 10 be Intelligent; III is better thing
20 be stralght aud deeenf and fearless. 1t
WINS Yale professor Nh. Lounsberry, who
remarked that his experience In the class
room had taught him THE infnHe capacity
Of che human mind to Withstand the in
PRODUCTION of knowledge" Some of you
preachers must often feel the same way
about the ability of mankind TO withstand
the Introduction of elementary decency
and morality.
man must be honest in the first place;
but that by itself is not enough. No mat,
ter how good man Is, If he is timid he
can not accomplish much in the world
There is only very circumscrbed sphere
OF usefulness for the tlmld good man.
So, besides being honest, a man has got
70 +5 nave COURAGE too. And these two to,
brave and honest he is, II he Is u natural
born fool, you can do little with him Re
member the order In which name them.
Honesty first then courage, then brains.
And all are Indispensable, we have no
room In a healthy community for either
the knave, the fool, the weakling, or the
coward
You may look through the Bible from
cover TO cover and nowhere Will you ind
line that can be construed into an apology
for the man OF brains who sins against the
light, ON the contrary, In the Bible, TAX
ing that as a guide, you Will find that be-
cause much mas heen given 10 You much
will be expected from YOU, and a heavier
condemnation Is TO be visited upon the
able man who goes wrong than upon his
weaker brother who can not do the harm
that the. other does, because IL Is not in
SO plead, not merely for training of the
mind, but for the moral and spiritual train
ing OF the home and the church; the moral
been found In, and that nave ever accom-
panied the study of this book TINS book,
can be described as ''The Book" with the
certainty OF all understanding you when
you so describe II. One OF the highest
tributes of modern times TO the worth OF
fiuence Of incalculsble value TO the whole
community came from the great scientist
Huxley, who said: Consider the great
historical fact rhat for three centuries
this book has been woven Into the life Of
all that is nobiest and best In our history,
and that Il has become the National epic
OF our race; that II Is written In toe noblest
and purest English, and ahounds In ex-
quislte beauties Of mere literary form; ana
Tally, that II forblds the yeriest hind, who
never left his village, 20 be ignorant of
the existence of other countries ana other
civilizations and of great past stfetch'
ing back to the furthest limits OF the old
est nations In the world.
by the study Of what other book could
children be so much unmarked aud made
10 feel that each hgure In that vast hlstori-
cal procession flls, Ike themselves, but a
momentary space In the interval between
the eternities7
THE Bible has been the Magma Charta
Of the. poor and Of the oppressed. down
stitution In which the interests OF the PEG
pie are 40 largely taken into account IN
which the dulles. SO much more than the
privileges, Of rulers are insisted npon, as
that drawn up for Israel IN DenteIonoinS
M truth that the welfare Of the state, In
the long run, depends upon the rishieous'
ness Of the citizen, so strongly ialQ Gown.
The Bible is the most democratic BOOK In
the world
The teaching Of the Bible 70 children IT,
Of course. a matter Of especial interest
10 those Of us who have famlies~and. In.
eidentally. ! wish 20 express my profound
BELIEF IN large families Older folks often
fall 10 realize how readily child VIII
not take the trouble to explain. We can
not be too careful In seeing that the hibli.
cal learning Is not merely an affairs Of
sofa % that tia shlA naay understand