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fury has been carried on at higher pres
sure than ever before. That means, OF
course. that all the forces have been raised
to a higher degree of power-the forces OF
evil and also the forces Of good. If it had
not been for the work OF such organizations
as this the immense material progress OF
the world during the past half century
have told for Ill to the nations, not for
good. And we can say with truth that
we are better of and not worse of than
we were. We see all around us people
who say. Oh well; things will come out
all right So they will, but they will come
out all right, not because there are men
who are content to say that they will come
out all right, but because there are a sufh-
cient number OF earnest men with the
root Of Righteousness in them, who are
bound to see that they come out all right
A hundred years ago there was no such
need for the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation and other movements OF this KIND
Life was simpler. The temptation would
come surely to every man. but it would not
come so frequently and in so intense a
form. AS the forces of evil manifested
themselves in stronger and stronger form
they had to be met, If they were to De
successfully grappled with, by organized
effort, and the successful effort to combat
the forces of evil had to take just sucn
shape as has been given to the growth OF
the Young Mems Christian Association. II
had to take the shape OF combining decency
and efficiency. There have been phllan-
thropic movements led and supported by
most excellent people. which nevertheless
have produced results altogether incom-
measurable with the efforts spent, because
they failed to combine, as this movement
has combined, a recognition of the needs
of human nature at the same time that the
resolute effort was made and make that
human nature better.
Three Types of Work.
81 have been acquainted especially with
three types of your work-the work in the
army and navy, among railroad men and
among college students Now those three
classes are not going to be effectively
reached as classes by any effort which fails
to take account of the fact that they de-
mand manliness as well as virtue, and you
can make them straight on condition that
you keep in mind that it Is necessary for
them to be strong. An old and favorite
quotation of mine has been Wesley's re-
mark when some one criticised him pc
cause his hymn tunes were so good. Tne
answer was that he was not going to leave
all the good tunes to the devil And we
want to be exceedingly careful that the I'M
preston shall not go out that good men
intend to leave strength to those who serve
the devil. daughter and applause.) In
the long run the man who is decent Is apt
to be the man who Is the best soldier. The
work among the railroad men always par
willingness of those men to take risks, to
accept responsibilities. Those that follow
that pursuit have both the power to obey
and the power to act on individual initia-
tive-the power to take responsibility. You
get among a body of men like that and you
can make them accept morality II you make
them understand that it is not only COM
patible with but is demanded by essential
manliness.
''The work Of the Y. NJ. c. A. has grown
SO among the college students because it
has tried not to dwarf any of the impulses
of the young, vigorous man, but to guide
him Alright. 1t has sought not to make his
development one-sided, not to prevent his
being man, but to see that he is in the
fullest sense a man and good man.
among those that are here tonight I
know that the rest among you will Join
with me in saying that we greet with pecu-
liar pleasure the men who served in the
great war. (Applause.) Those men won
in the day of trial because they and their
fellows had in them in the first place the
power Of devotion to an ideal and In the
next place the strength to realize that
power in effective fashion. | do not care
how good soldiers or sailors they had been
If their ambitions had been personal; If
Grant and Sherman and Thomas and Far
| ragut had not all felt that they We're Tight
ing for one end: that they were holding up
the arms of mighty Lincoln as he toiled
and wrought and suffered for the people,
then no prowess would have prevailed.
This nation would have gone down into
bloody anarchy, would have crumbled into
dust. as many republics had crumbled
before 1t. But they had to have more than
that. They had to have fervent devotion
to country to the right and power to fight.
1 do not care how patriotic the man was,
if he could neither march nor shoot he
was not any good
'In addition to the lofty ideal, to the
power of devotion. the man had to have
the fiber Of heart. the fiber of body to make
his devotion take effective shape for the
nations welfare.
land so it is now in civil life. We will
make this twentieth century better and not
worse than any century that has gone be-
fore It, because we will. like this society,
approach the problems that face US with
firm resolution that we will strive to
make the young men decent, God-fearing,
law-abiding, honOr-loving, justlce-doing,
and will also make them fearless and
strong able to hold their own In the hurly
burly of the worlds work: able to strive
nightly that the forces of right may be
in the end triumphant. cloud. applauseC
Admiral Dewey's Response.
Admiral Dewey. who was introduced as
"the great admiral said: The great adj
mirap feels slightly out Of his element to-
night" He spoke Of the good work the
Y. M. C. A. had done for the navy. refer
ring particularly to the building erected by
Miss Helen Gould for the sailors of the Y.
NJ C. A at Brooklyn He said this build
ing was the only one Of its kind that he
| knew Of and that 1t did the men more good
than anything that could possibly be done
for them He said he had always thought
the sailor was the best man on earth, and
that his recent experiences with the jackies
had confirmed this belief. He left 10000
men in the tropics, he said, where the
weather was pleasant and the work they
were doing valuable, but. he concluded.
there is not a man of the 10000 who would
not at this moment like to hang up his hat
in that building in Brooklyn and enjoy the
good things of the place.
Speaks for the Army.
General s. M. B. Young. in speaking for
the army, referred to the work the asso-
citation was doing in the army in this
country, and then said: 1.-THE good work
already accomplished stamps your associa-
ton as the best in existence. The influence
Of your work has done more than any
other to better the conditions Of men in
camp and the field. This has been
shown in our own country at home and
own country across the water. (Applause)
l have seen the effects Of your work at
Montauk Point and many other places
When campaign is over a soldier thinks
of home. He wants to write to his mother
and his sister. You furnish him with writ
ing material and make 1t possible for him