The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-24

ABOUT R0OSEVELT, GRANT AND
THE TRCACEEROUs FILIPINOS.

Grant was Clubbed Unresisting and
Whcn Rsesovelf wanted . Ciassmat'
Punched-lesssns In streuueusnees
John d. Rockefeller. Jr.. had Major Gen
Adna r. Chaffee, President Nicholas Muir
ray Butler OF Columbia University and
Jacob A. Riis address his Bible class at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church last evening
So many people came TO the meeting thai
It was held, not in the chapel, but in tho
church auditorium. which was filed. Mr.
Rockefeller sat with the speakers on the
platform.
President Butler said that Bible study
has not yet begun 70 exhaust the possible
tea OF that marvellous book.
knowledge OF the English Bible is not
widespread 4, very large proportion q thu
american youth who come p the college.
knowledge Of this book. There IL Hrowins
up q generation unable to read intelliRently
the secular p literature Of Their Language, BE-.
impossible 70 read Shakespeare and Milton
with any understanding without knowledge
We are In danger Of losing something out
OF the Bible IN the next generation or two!
religious instruction or study be not alto.
sether lost sisat of in the total scheme OF
edu cation.
Gen. ChsiYee had been asked to speak
Of some Of his personal experiences IN the
Philippines. but he declined to talk Of him
self and spoke about the physical features
Of the islands. He mentioned incidentally
the treacherous character Of the Moros,
and told Of one Moro who came along carry
ing a white flag OF peace, brushed elbows
with an American officer and then stuck
his bolo into a sergeant who was walking
six feet behind the Officer. The officer
turned and fired with his revolver at the
Moro when the sergeant gave the alarm, but
the native dived into the jungle and es-
capped.
Gen. Chaffee expressed the conviction
that the Spanish Government and Church
had done much for the people In the islands.
and added that II we accomplished as much
With them In the next 800 years as the ne.
S Se dons dd n shall certainly
Mr.. Riis told OF having seen Gen. Grant
beaten and yet seeing him In his greatest
hour. 1t was when the Masonic Temple
fire occurred and the police lines were estab-
A policeman who had got tired Of pushing
people hack saw q small man going past
him and thumped him heavily upon the
back and threw him back into the crowd:
The small man was Grant He never said
the direction from which he had come.
Mr.. Riis; .he didn't pay the slightest at
tention to the insult of the policeman or
announce his identity. When / told the
policeman who II was he had struck you
could fairly hear his knees rattle
In telling Of the kinds OF men who are not
wanted in the world. Mr.. Ris told q story
Of President Roosevelt. When Roosevelt
class was leaving college a professor asked
one man what he intended to do.
-Oh, there's not much use in trying to do
anything, particular the young man re-
piled.
Whereupon Roosevelt got up and, walking
to the professor pounded his fist upon the
table and exclaimed: Professor, that man
ought to be knocked TN the head!'
And 20 he ought said Mr.. Riis; the in
different man IL not wanted"
THE world doesn't want the man who
can't, either, for the world is run by the
men who can. And II doesn't want the
pessimist optimists run the world. Date
back to God. not to Adam; you might well
despair 10 you began there. Il was the
belief OF the Vikings that the coward went
straight to he'll and / guess he does. but
what the devil wants with him l can't
imagine. Peter is my hero. 1t was wrong.
OF course. to cut OF the ear OF the high
priests servant, but that was Just what
was wanted at that time