Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-28

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President Roosevelt's Letter on the
Bible.
About a year ago Mr.. Roosevelt, then
vice president of the United States, de
livered an important address at Oyster
Bay. L. L., where he resides. The oc-
casion was the annual meeting OF the
Long Island Bible society, and the SUD-
ject of the address was the Bible. On
Sunday evening, May II. at the cele-
bration of the thirteenth anniversary
of the Epworth League at Strawbridge
church, Baltimore. communications
were read from a number of prominent
men, who expressed their judgment as
to what class of men and ONE the
world most needs at the present time.
President Roosevelt vas among those
who were invited to participate in the
symposium, and he sent a letter which
contained the following extracts from
his Oyster Bay address:
Every thinking man, when he
thinks, realizes what a very large num-
Der of people tend to forget that the
teachings of the Bible are so interwov-
Cu anu tllN lltu Will OuI MnOle ClNlC
and social life that it would be literally
i do not NEAR fguratively, | mean
literally-impossible for us to figure
to ourselves what that life would be if
these teachings were removed. We
would lose almost all the standards
by which we now judge both public
and private morals; all the standards
to which we, with more or less resolu-
ton, strive TO raise ourselves. Almost
every man who has, by his life work,
added to the SUI of human achieve
ment of which the ace is proud. of
which our people are ~proud-almost
every such man has based his lifework
largely upon the teachings of the BIZ
BILE. Some times it has been done I'M
consciously, and among the very great
est men a disproportionately large
number nave been diligent and close
students of the Bible at first hand.
"Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lin
coin. who after bearing upon his weary
shoulders for four years a greater bur
den than that borne by any other man
in the nineteenth century, laid down
his life for the people whom, living.
he had served so well-built up his IN
tire reading upon his study of the BIZ
bic. He had mastered H. absolutely;
mastered it as, later. he had mastered
one or two other books. notably Shake
speare; mastered so that he became al
most q man Of one book, wac knew
that book and instinctiyely put II into
practice what ne had been taught
therein; and he left his ltfe as part
Of me crc"ning work Of the century
that has just closed.
you ma look through the Bible,
/ frprrl srxrn-s f.. nnr-f-s n ! No whore VI.
you ma a line that can be construed
mo an apology Tor the man or Drains
VINO slA- against the liEht. On the con-
5Taiy in the Bioic, taxing that as a
aHI.C, you NII II tAaL because much
G22 oeen gwen t. Fou much vail be eX-
ptct-1 ci YOU, . q heavier condemna-
tl.l - re VIsi,2a upOl the able man
VINO C,-- "iclt tc9n upon his weaker
brother, VINO caulo. dc inc. harm that
the other does, because 1t is not in MIN
to do IL.
Il plead not merely for training of
the mind, but for the moral and spirit
ual training of the home and the
church; the moral and spiritual train
ing that have always been found in,
and that ever have accompanied the
study of, this book; this book, which in
almost every civilized tongue, can be
described as The Book, with the GER
tainty of all understanding you when
you so describe it.
The immense moral influence of the
Bible, though, of course, infinitely the
most important, is not the only power
it has for good. In addition there is
the unceasing influence it eXerts on
the side of good taste, of good litera-
ture, of proper sense of proportion,
of simple and Straightforward writing
and thinking.
This is not a small matter in an
age when there is a tendency to read
much that, even if not actually harm
full on moral grounds, is yet injurious,
because it represents slipshod, sloven-
ly thought and work; not the kind of
serious thought. of serious expression,
which we like to see in anything that
goes into the fber of character.
THE Bible does not teaCh us TO