The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-26
PLEADS FOR HONESTY.
President Roosevelt Speaks at
Open-Air Church Service.

Washington, Oct 20 Intelligent
service to God and to the state was the
subject of an address by President
Roosevelt to the 1000 people who at
tended the public open air missionary
service of the Pan-American Missionary
society at Mount ST. Adams Sunday
afternoon on the close of the Cathedral
of Saints Peter and Paul The presi-
dent was accompanied by Mrs Roose-
welt, Admiral Dewey and Brigadier
General John NJ. Wilson.
After procession, led by the Marine
band, in cassocks and cottas, and sing
1ng by choir of 500 voices. the clergy
Of the diocese of Washington and the
bishops of the Anglican communions in
america, the opening prayers were
read by Bishop Doane of Albany The
president was introduced by Bishop
Satterlee.
At the close of the presidents ad-
dress the Most Rev. Enos NuttalI,
archbishop of the West Indies, asked
the British people. Speaking. as he
said, for them he told of the reverence
and respect" which all Englishmen feel
Tor the president of the United States
ana Tor Theodore Roosevelt, the man
and the Christian" He declared that
England welcomed the expansion of the
United States into a world power. and
that If President Roosevelt should visit
England he would receive the greatest
welcome ever extended a foreign Wis
tor. The president spoke as follows:
Bishop Satterlee and to your Lepre-
senta1ves of the church both at home
ana abroad and to all of you.my friends
ana fellow citizens: l extend greeting,
and in your name I especially welcome
those who are in a sense guests Of the
nation today.
In what 1 am about to say to You I
wish to dwell upon certain thoughts
suggested by three different quotations:
IN the first place, Thou shall serve the
Lord with all thy heart, Win all thy
soul and with all thy mind the rext
o BE We therefore wise as serpents AID
harmless as doves;' and finally, in the
collect which you, Bishop Doane, Just
read, thai We being ready DOtn in body
and soul may therefore accomplish
these things which thou commaudest.'
ITO an audience such as this [ Go rot
have to say anything as to serving the
cause of decency with heart and soul.
] want to dwell, however, upon the fact
that we have the right To claim from
you not merely that you shall have
heart in your work. not merely that
YOU shall put your souls into it. but
that you shall give the best that W ur
minds have got TO It also. II the eternal
and amending warfare for righteous
ness and against evil the friends of
what is good need to remember that in
addition to being decent they must be
efficient; that good intentions, high
purposes, can not be effective md a
substitute for power to make those pur-
poses, these intentions felt in action.
We must have the purpose and the in
tention. If our powers are not guided
alright it is better that we should rot
have them at all; but in addition TO be-
ing guided Alright we must have the
power also; we must cultivate the pow
er also.
I'm the second quotation remember
that we are told not merely to be harm
less as doves. but also to be wise as
serpents. One of those characteristic
humorists whom the country has devel-
Oped, and who yelled under jocuiaI
phrases much deep wisdom-one OF
those men remarked that it was much
easier to be a harmless dove than a
wise serpent. Now, we are not to be
excused if we do show both qualities II