Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-26
THE PRESIDENT
Addresses Audience of 1000,
Sunday at Washington
On the Subject: Intelligent Service
to God and to State"
Tribute to President from England by
Archbishop Mutual.

| Washington, Oct. 25.-'Intelligent
Service to God and to the State" was
the subject of an address by President
Roosevelt to the 7CO0 people who at
| tended the public open air missionary
| service at Mount st. Adams, this after
| noon, on the close of the cathedral of
| St. Peter and st. Paul. The President
was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt,
| Admiral Dewey and Gen. John M. Will
| son, Z. S. A. After a procession led by
the Marine Band, choir of 500 voices,
| the clergy of the diocese of Washing
| ton and the bishops of the Anglican
communions in America, the opening
prayers We're read by Bishop Doane OF
Albany. The President was introduced
by Bishop Satterlee.
At the close of the Presidents adj
dress, Archbishop INITIAL of the West
Indies, asked permission to say word
on behalf of the British people. Speak
ing as he said for them, he told of the
reverence and respect which all Eng
glishmen feel for the President of the
United States and for Theodore Roose-
welt, 1.-The man and 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 visitor.
The President spoke as follows:
Il extend greetings and i'll your name
especially welcome those who are in a
sense the guests of the nation, today.
To an audience such as this | do not
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 your minds have got also.
II want to call your attention to some
thing that is especially my business for
the time being. and that is your business
lall the time, or else you are unfit to be
citizens of this republic. In the seventh
hymn which we sung, in the last line. you
| all joined in singing God Save the State
TO you intend merely to sing that or to
| try to do it? If you intend merely to sing
lit your part in doing it will be but small.
| The state will be saved if the Lord puts
! it into the heart of the average American
| to TO save his life that the state shall be
worth saving and only on those terms.
| I'VE need civic righteousness. The best
constitution that the wit of man has ever
devised, the best institutions that the
IabIeSt statesmen in the world ever have
reduced to practice by law or custom
shall be of no avail if they are not vivi-
| fed by the spirit which makes state
great by making it honest, just and brave
in the first place.
Il do not ask you as practical believers
| i'll applied Christianity to take part one
| way or the other in matters that are
merely political. There are sides of ques-
tons about which honest men can and do
| differ very greatly and very intensely:
about which the triumph of either side
may be compatible with the welfare of the
State-a lesser degree of welfare or Il
greater degree of welfare-but compatible
| with the welfare of the state.
| But there are certain great principles
such rs those which Cromwell would have
! called fundamentals, concerning which
! no one has a right to have but one opin-
ion. Such 4 question is honesty. If you
have not honesty in the average private
| citizen or public servant, then all else
goes for nothing. Not only the honesty
| that Keeps its skirts technically clear
hut the honesty that is such according to
| the spirit as well as the letter of the law;
the honesty that is aggressive. the hon
esty that not merely deplores corruption
! it is easy enough to deplore corruption
but that which wars against it and tram
! pies it under foot
Il ask for that type of honesty. l ask
for militant honesty, for the honesty of
| the kind that makes those who have ii
| disconnected with themselves as long as
they have failed to do everything that in
| them lies to stamp out dishonesty where
evil can De lcund n nlSh pace OF IN low
| | ask, then, that cur people feel quick
| encd within them the burning indigna-
| ton against wrong in every shape which
shall take effect in condemnation and es-
| pecially in condemnation of that wrong
whether found in private or public life at
| the moment.
Surely in every movement for the bet
| terment of our life we have a special
right to ask not merely support but lead
ershp from those of the church. We ask
that you here to whom much has been
! given will remember that from you right
lily much will be expected in return. For
| all of US here the lines have been cast in
pleasant places Each OF us has been Civ
! en- one talent, five 10 and each Of us is
/ in honor bound to use that talent o. those
! talents. right and to show that at the end
he is entitled to the praise as having
/ done well as a faithful servant"