The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
OPEN AIR MISSION SERVICE
SEVEN THOUSAND PERSONS HEAR
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Honesty, Courage and Ability Funda-
mental Needs of Every Man-Brit-
ish Bishops Invitation.

i,VW people VINO ATTENDED the pubic open
sir missionary service at Mount st. Adams.
this afternoon in the close of the Cathedral
of Saints Peter and Paul. The President was
accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Admiral
Dewey and Brigadier General John M. Will
son. After a procession led by the Marine
Band and choir of 500 voices, the clergy
OF the diocese of Washington. and the
Bishops of the Anglican Communions in
American. the opening prayers were read
by Bishop Doane, of Albany. The President
was introduced by Bishop Satterlee. At the
close OF the Presidents address the Most
Rev. Enos Muttall, Archbishop of the West
Indies, asked permission to say a word on
behalf of the British people.
Speaking, as he said, for them, he told
of the reverence and respect which all
Englishmen feel for the President of the
United States and for Theodore Roosevelt.
1.-THE man and the Christian" He declared
that England welcomed the expansion of
the United States into world power and
that IL President Roosevelt should visit
England he would receive the greatest well
come ever extended foreign visitor. The
President. after greeting Bishop Satterlee
and the other clergy, spoke in part as fol-
lows:
lin what am about to say to you l
wish to dwell on certain thoughts suggested
by three different quotations. In the first
place. Thou shalt serve the Lord with all
thy heart. with all thy soul and with all
serpents and harmless as doves and
finally, in the collect. which you. Bishop
Doane, just read, that we, being ready,
both in body and soul, may, therefore, &C
complish these things which thou COM
mandest.'
MENTAL EFFORT NEEDED.
ITO audience such this 1 do not
have to- say anything as to serving the
cause OF decency with heart and soul.
want TO dwell, however, on the fact that
we have been right to claim from you not
merely that you shall have heart in your
work. not merely that you shall put your
souls into il, but that you shall give the
best that your minds have got TO it, also.
In the eternal and unending warfare for
righteousness 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 pur-
poses. cannot be effective and substitute
for power to make those purposes. those in
tentions, felt in action. We must have the
purpose and the intention. II our powers
are not guided Alright 1t is better that We
should not have them at all; but. in addi-
ton to being guided Alright, We must have
the power also; we must cultivate the power
also.
I'm the second quotation remember that
as doves, but also to be wise serpents.
One of those characteristic humorists whom
this country has developed, and who yelled
under jocular phrases much deep wisdom
one of those men remarked that II was
much easier TO be a harmless dove than
a wise serpent. Now. we are not to be
excused If we do not show both qualities
1t is not very much praise to give a man
to say he Is harmless. We have a right
to ask that in addition to the fact that
he does no harm to any one he shall pos
sess the wisdom and the strength to do
good to- his neighbour: that together with
innocence, together with purity of motive
shall be joined the wisdom and strength
to make that purity effective, that motive
translated into substantial result
Finally. in the quotation from the collect
we ask that we may be made ready both
in body and soul, that we may cheerfully
accomplish these things that We are COM
manded to do: ready both in body and soul:
that shall fit ourselves physically and
mentally. lit ourselves by the way i'm which
we work with the weapons necessary for
dealing with this life no less than with the
higher. spiritual weapons; fit ourselves thus
TO do the work commanded and moreover
do il cheerfully. Small is our use for the
man who individually helps any of and
shows that he does IL grudgingly. We had
rather not be helped than be helped in that
way favor extended in manner which
shows that the man is sorry tina. he has
to grant 1t is robbed sometimes of all and
sometimes of more than all it's benefit So
i'm serving the Lord, If we serve him. if we
serve the cause of decency, the cause of
ers with the fact that We are sad I'm doing
it, our service is robbed of an immense pro-
portion of its efficacy.
CHEERFUL SERVICE.
eve have a right to ask cheerful
heart: right to ask buoyant and cheer
full spirit, among those TO whom is granted
the inestimable privilege of doing the
Lords work in this world. The chance
to do work. the duty to do work is not
a penalty, 1T is privilege. Life is so con-
stituted that the man or the woman who
| has not got some responsibility is thereby
deprived of the deepest happiness that can
| come TO mankind.
''In closing i want TO call your attention
| to something that is especially my business
| for the time being. and that is your busi-
ness all the time, else you are unfit to
| be citizens of this republic. In the seventh
all joined in singing God save the state"
| Do you intend merely to sing that,
or TO try TO DO it? If you in
tend merely to sing it,, your part
| in doing Ii Will be but small. The State
| will be saved If the Lord puts IL into
| the heart of the average man SO to shape
| his life that the State shall be worth saw
ing. and only on those terms. We need
| civic righteousness. The best constitution
| that the wit of man ever devised the best
| institutions that the ablest statesman in the
WOTlu nave Teuuceu 10 prdctlce Dy
| law or by custom, shall be of no avail If
| they are not vivified by the spirit which
makes q State great by making Ii honest
| just and brave in the first place. | do not
| ask you as practical believers in applied
| Christianity to take part one way or the
| other in matters that are merely political
| There are plenty Of questions about which
| honest men can and do differ very greatly
| and very intensely, about which the tri-
umph of either side may be compatible
! with the welfare of the State-a lesser de-
| gree OF welfare or a greater degree of well
| fare-but there are certain great PRINCIPLES
| such as those which Cromwell would have
| called fundamentals, concerning which no
| man has right 10 have but opinion
| not honesty in the average private citizen.
| or public servant, then all else goes for
nothing.
DANGEROUS ABILITY
THE ADLER man is the more dextrous,
| the shrewder. the bolder-why the more
| dangerous he is IL he has not the root of
| right living and right thinking in him
and that In private life, and even more
| in public life. Exactly in time of war,
although you needed in each fighting man
| far more than courage, yet all else counts
4 for nothing IL there Is not that courage on
which TO base IL. So in our civil life
| although we need that the average man. in
/ private life. that the average public servant
| shall have far more than honesty. yet all
other qualities 60 for nothing or for worse
| than nothing unless honesty underIies them
mot only the honesty that keeps its skirts