The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-21
PRES. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
ADDRESS FOR PRESBYTERIAN
 HOME MISSION WORK.
Great Gathering at Carnegie Hall in New York-Hundreds Turned Away Chief Executive Received With En- Who, Sitting a Ease in Their Homes, Criticfse the Hard Workers

New York, May 2o.-Carnegie hall
 was crowded to the doors this evening when President Roosevelt delivered an address in the interests of Presbyterian home missions, the occasion marking the close of the centennial celebration. In the parquet sat the commissioners | Of the general assembly. There were about 400 men and women on the plat form and not 8 vacant seat or a bit of standing room was left in the en- tire auditorium. Hundreds were turn- | cd away.
 When President Roosevelt took his seat on the platform he received a
 great ovation. He was seated between the Rev. Dr. Vandyke and the Rev. D.
 Stuart Dodge. D. D., the latter being the presiding officers.
 | A choir of one hundred and twenty five voices from the different Presby- terian churches sang the hymn "Ye
 Servants of God Your Master Pro-
 claim" and the president sang with them.
 Every true American.'' said MT.
 Dodge, in his opening remarks, lis
 grateful that his country was founded
 by men and women who feared God;
 and to-day this nation is receiving it's chief strength and support from God fearing men and women."
 Dr. Dodge reviewed the bright pros-
 poets of the church, which, he said, lis
 about to receive a creed that, plain people can understand and accept"
 In introducing President Roosevelt Dr. Dodge said that no man knows bet ter than the president the importance to the nation of good work of the home missions. When President Roosevelt stepped to the front of the platform and began with MT. Chairman" he was interrupted by the fashlight of a photographer. As, the smoke blew across the stage he laughed and said: "There goes the mystery now" refer ring to the mystery of the creed. He then said
 It is pleasure on behalf of the peo- pie of the United States to bid you well come on this hundredth anniversary of the beginning of organized home mis- sionary work by the Presbyterian church. In one sense of course all fer vent and earnest church work Is part of home missionary work. Every earn est and zealousbeliever, every man or woman who is a doer of the work and not a nearer only, is a lifelong mission ary in his or her field of labor--a mis- by precept and by what is a more than precept, by 1 practice. Every such believer exerts 1 influence on those within reach some what by word, and infinitely through | the ceaseless yet well nigh unseen | pressure, all the stronger when it's ex- ! ercise is unconscious of example, of l broad, loving, charitable neighborli- l ness.
 But tonight we celebrate hundred | years of missionary work done not in- but with set purpose; hum dred years of earnest effort to spread i abroad the gospel to lay deep the 1 foundation upon which true na- ! tional greatness must rest. The cen- | tury that has closed has seen the con- uuest of this continent by our people. To conquer a continent is rough work. All really great work is rough in the ioing, though it may seem smooth enough to those who look back upon it or who gaze upon it from afar. The -oughness is an unavoidable part of the loing of the deed. We need display but scant patience with those who sitting 1t ease in their own homes, delight to exercise g euerrilous and censorious spirit of Judgment upon their brethren
 (Continued on Sixth Pagel