The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-17
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 StLF RESPECT President Roosevelt Makes Long Address to Holy Name SO-
 ciety of Long Island
HUNDREDS OF LISTENERS
 COME ON SPECIAL TRAINS
Says He Wants to See Christianity a Moving Spirit Among Men of Strength and Not Profess
 ed by Weddings Only.

Oyster Bay, August 16-President Roosevelt delivered the principal address at the quarterly meeting of the Society of the Holy Name, of Brooklyn and Long Island, held here today. Deeency of con- duct constituted the theme of his ad- dress, which was enthusiastically ap- plauded by an audience of more than 2O0O, chiefly men.
 During the afternoon special trains brought hundreds of members of the So- ciety of oyster Bay from Brooklyn and western Long Island. The threatening weather kept many away, but although light rain fell during the exercises, the crowd remained banked about the flag decked stand on beautiful hill opposite 1 St. Dominic's Catholic church.
 As President Roosevelt drove up to the stand in a closed carriage, accompanied by Capt. w. H. Brownson, superinten- dent of the Naval academy.
 After the audience had sung "Ameri- ca." Father Power, rector of St. Domin- ! ic's, introduced the President in a felici- tous speech in which he spoke of the es- teem in which MT. Roosevelt is held by the Catholics of this country.
 Cheers Greet President.
 When President Roosevelt rose to speak he was greeted with cheers, and it was | quite a minute before he was able to proceed His address follows:
 "very Rev Dean, Rev. Clergy and you
 mt apl fortunate in having the chance to say a word to you today and at the onset let me, Father Power, also my neighbors, your congregation, welcome you here l to Oyster Bay. l have a partial right to | join in d welcome myself, for 1t was my good fortune, in the days or Father l Powers predecessor, Father Bettord, 10 be the first man to put down small 1 contribution for the erection of the church here. 1 am particularly glad to see such a society, and fourishing as your society has flourished, because the future well fare of our nation depends upon the way in which we combine in our men--in our young men-decency and strength. Just ! this morning when attending service on the great battleship Kearsarge, listened l to A sermon addressed to the officers and enlisted men of the navy, in which the i central thought was that each American must be a good man or he could not De a good citizen and one of the things 1 dwelt upon in that sermon was the Tact that a man must be clean of mouth as well as clean of lfe-must show by his words as well as by his actions his fealty to the Deity and to the Saviour, If he was to be what we have a right to ex- pect from men wearing the national uni 1 form.
 It is What Goes Out.
 "We have further scriptural authority 1 for the statement that 1t Is not what | comes into a mans mouth but what goes l out of 1t that counts. 1 am not addressing weddings, or l should not take the trou- | ble to come here l am addressing strong, | vigorous men, who are engaged in the ae- | tive hard work of life, and life to be worth | living must be a life of active ana nara work. I am speaking to men in the hard and active work of life and. therefore, men who will count for good or for eVll. 1 And 1t is peculiarly incumbent on you who have strength to set right example | to others I ask you to remember that vou cannot retain your self respect IL you are loose and foul of tongue. A man who | is to lead a clean and honorable life must inevitably suffer if his speech likewise IS i not clean apd honorable. Every man nere knows the temptations that besets all Of
 
 l slip. I do not expect perfection but do | exnect genuine and sincere effort toward l heinz decent and cleanly, in thought, in word and in deed. As I said at the outset hail the work of this society as a typifying one on those forces which tend to lose betterment and uplifting of our social system.
 Strong Qualities.
 l Our whole effort should be toward se- | curing a combination of the strong quail i ties with those qualities which we term | virtues in the breast of every good citi- | gen. I expect you to be strong. l would | not respect you if you were not. l don't want to see Christianity professed only | by weddings. I want to see 1t moving | spirit among men of strength. l did not 1 expect you to lose one particle or your | strength or courage by being decent. On | the contrary l should hope to see each | man who is a member of this society from | his membership in it become all the litter | to do the rough work of the world, all the | filter to work in time of peace, and if | which may Heaven forbid. war should come, all the filter to fight In the time of i war I desire to see in this country the | decent men strong ana the strong men | decent and until we get this combination 1 in pretty good shape, we are not going to | by any means be as successful as we | should be. There is always tendency | among very strong men and among boys | who are not quite young men as yet to | think that to be wicked Is rather smart; | oh. how often you see some young fellow who boasts he Is going to see life, mean | ing by that he is going to see that part | of life which 1t Is thousand fold better | if 1t remains unseen
 Should Set Example.
 sI ask that every man constitute him. self his brothers guide by setting an ex- ample to that younger brother which will prevent him from getting such false estimate of life, as the example is the most potent of all things. If you, one