The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-21
EAGER TO HEAR.
Carnegie Hall Was Crowded to
the Doors
With People to Listen to the
President.
HE TALKS OF CUBA
And the COuntry's Recent Rec
ord in Martinique.
Pays Tribute to the Q. s. Army
and Navy.
IE TALKS OF CUBA

New York, May .21-Carnegie hall
was crowded to the doors last evening
with an audience eager to hear the ad-
dress OF President Roosevelt in the in
terests of Presby terian home missions.
the occasion marking the close of the
centennial celebration. Many of the
audience remembered that Presidents
Cleveland and Harrison had made ad-
dresses from the same platform on the
same subject.
In the parquet sat the commissioners
Of the general assembly, with as many
of their friends as could be crowded IN
The two tiers of boxes were filled with
men and women who are leaders IN
Metropolitan PresbyterianiSm, and 9TH
ers interested in the meeting. There
were about 400 men and women on the
platform. There was not a vacant seat,
not bit of standing room left in the
entire auditorium. Hundreds We're
turned away.
When President Roosevelt took his
seat on the platform he received great
ovation. When the applause died away
Mr.. Roosevelt took his seat between the
Rev Dr. Van Dyke and the Rev. Dr.
Stuart Dodge, D. D, who was presld-
ing.
A choir of 125 voices from the differ
ent Pres byterian churches sang the
hymn 'tYe Servants of God Your Mas
ter Proclaim" and the president sang
with them.
Every true American" said DR..
Lodge, in his opening remarks, is
grateful that this country was founded
by men and women who feared God;
and today this nation is receiving It's
chief strength and support from God
fearing men and women. On this occa-
! sion, our centennial celebration of our
home mission, it is our chief reason to
keep rejoicing that our church still sup
plies such men and women to keep up
the good work"
-,as-, ~~o1e
DR.. Dodge said that no man knew bet
ter than the president the Importance
/ to the nation of the good work of the
/ home missions.
When President Roosevelt stepped tC
the front of the platform and began
Mr.. Chairman" he was interrupted BY
/ the uaShl1ght OF a photographer AS
/ the smoke blew across the stage he
laughed and said: There goes the mys-
terry now" referring to the mystery OF
/ the creed. Continuing he said
1t IS a pleasure on behalf of the peO-
pie of the United States to bid you vel
come on this hundredth anniversary Of
! the beginning of organized home mis-
slonary work by the Presbyterian
/ church. In one sense, of course, all fer
/ vent and earnest church work is a par
of home missionary work. Every earn
| est and Jealous believer, every man OF
| woman who is a doer of the word anC
| not nearer only. is a lifelong mission.
! airy in his or her field of labOr-a mis-
| sionary by precept. and by what is {
thousand fold more than precept, by
| practice. Every such believer exert:
| some influence on those within reach
somewhat by word but infinitely more
| through the ceasless, yet well nigf
unseen pressure, all the stronger wheI
! its exercise is unconscious, Of example
Of broad, loving charitable neighbor.
| illness.
but tonight we celebrate a hundred
years of missionary work done not Incl
dentally but with set purposes; a hun
bred years of earnest effort to spread
abroad the gospel to lay deep the moral
| foundation upon which true national
greatness must rest The century that
has closed has seen the conquest of this
continent by our people. To conquer g
continent is tough work. All really
great work is rough in the doing, though
it may seem smooth enough to those
who look back upon it. or who gaze
upon it from afar. Thoroughness is ar
unavoidable part of the doing of tht
deed. We need display but scant patti
ence with those who, sitting at ease
in their own homes, delight to exercise
a quarrelous and censOrious part Of