The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-17

East Alton, bricks were shaken from sev- eral chimneys and glass were broken in several windows. The shock lasted nearly eight seconds.
 of you, in the presence of younger boys, and especially the younger people of your own family, misbehave yourself; if you use course and blasphemous language before them, you can be sure that the younger people will follow your example and not your precept. It is no use to preach to them if you do not act de gently yourself. You have got to feel that the most effective way in which you can preach is by your practice.
 Just as l was driving up here friend who was with us said that in his exper- fence the boy who went out into life with a foul tongue was apt so to go be- cause his kinsfolk, at least his intimate associates themselves, had foul tongues, but while the life in the family cannot do everything. while the association of friendship cannot do everything. still the friends, the father, the elder brothers can do much toward seeing that the boys as they become men, become clean and honorable men.
 Boys Admire Virtue.
 T have told you that l wanted you not only to be decent but to be strong. These boys are going to admire virtue that is of a purely anaemic type. They believe in courage in manliness; they admire those who have the quality of being brave. the quality of facing life as life should be faced, the quality that must stand at the root of good friend ship in peace or in war If you are to be effective as good Christians, you have got to possess strength and courage or your example will count for little with the young who admire strength and courage I want to see you the men of the Holy Name society, you who em- body the qualities which the younger people admire, by your example give these young people the tendency, the trend in the right dirction; and remem- Der that this example counts in their case as well cleanliness of speech. want to see every man able to hold his own with the strong and also ashamed to oppress the weak l want to see the young fellow able to do q mans work in the world and of type which will not permit imposition to be practiced upon him.
 Must Not Submit to Wrong.
 "I want to see him too strong of spirit to submit to wrong, and the other ashamed to do wrong to others l want to see each man able to hold his own in the rough work of actual life outside, and al- so when he is at home--a good man, un- selfish in dealing with wife or mother or children. Remember that the preaching does not count if 1t is not backed up by practice. There is no good of your preach- ing to your boys to be brave if you run away. There is no good of your preaching to them to be unselfish if they see you selfish with your life and disregardful of others. We have a right to expect not only that you will come together in meet ings like this, that you will march in pro- cession; that you will join in building up such a great and useful association as this; but we have a right also to expect that in your own homes and among your own associations, you will prove by your deeds that yours Is not lip loyalty; that you show in actual practice the faith that is in you
 Now friends. that is all l have to say; I have come here merely to greet you and to say how welcome the work is being done by this society. In the last anayss. the whole future of the state depends up- on the average citizen having in his na- ture the mixture of strength and honesty which make in their sum what we call
 
 which many qualities. but these, above all in the first place, the quality of hon esty; we have got to have that first. I am using 1t in it's broadest sense, honesty, including decency in private life, clean liness of word cleanliness of speech as well as of life, decency toward the state. including honesty which, if 1t is really possessed, stands at the basis of patriot ism itself that Is indispensable.
 Men Must be Patriotic. 'I see in the audience man wearing the button of the Grand Army of the Republic, a man who fought in the great war. In that war the quality needed in the first place was patriotism. I don't care how strong a man he was. how brave he was. If he was crooked, if he did not have in him the love of country. then his other qualities but made him a curse. The man who had no love of country was a traitor; and if he was strong and able and brave, he was only