Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-26
THE SCENE AT CATHEDRAL CLOSE.

archbishop OF the West Indies and the bish-
ops from Canada bowed in acknowledgment
of the compliment paid them by the Presi-
dent in the opening of his address:
The Presidents Address.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Bishop Satterlee. and to you representa-
tives of the church. both at home and
abroad, and to all of you. my friends and
feilow-citiZens, extend greeting. and in
your name I especially welcome those who
are in a sense the guests of the nation to-
day. In what l am about to say to you 1
wish to dwell upon certain thoughts sug-
gested by three different quotations. In the
first place, Thou shalt serve the Lord with
all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all
thy mind the next. BE we therefore wise
as 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 those things which thou com
mandeSt.
'To an audience such as this I do not
have to say anything as to serving the
cause of decency with heart and with 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 to 1t also.
In the eternal and unending warfare TOR
righteousness and against evil the friends
OF what is good need to remember that In
addition to being decent they must be efft-
cen.: that good intentions. high purposes,
cannot be effective and a substitute for
power to make those purposes, those inten-
tons. Felt in action.
I'VE must have the purpose and the in
tention. If our powers are not guided
Alright 1t Is better that we should not have
them at all; but in addition to being guided
Alright we must have the power also; we
must cultivate the power also. In the sec
ond quotation remember that we are told
not merely to be harmless as doves, but
also to be wise as 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 1t was much easier 10
be a harmless dove than wise serpent.
NOW we are not to be excused II We do
not show both qualities. 1t is not very
much praise to give a man to say that he
is harmless. We have right to ask that
in addition to the fact that he does no harm
to any one he shall possess the wisdom and
the strength to do good to his neighbor:
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 sub
stantial results.
Finally, in the quotation from the Col
lect we ask that we may be made ready
both in body and in soul. that we may
cheerfully accomplish these things that we
are commanded to do; ready both in body
and in soul that we shall fit ourselves ply
sically and mentally; fit ourselves by the
way in which work with the weapons
necessary for dealing with this life no less
than with the higher, spiritual weapons: mt
ourselves thus to do the work COMMANDED,
and, moreover, do 1t cheerfully Small IS
our use for the man who individually helps
any of us and shows that he does 1t grudg-
irgly We had rather not be helped than
be helped in that way.
"a favor extended in a manner which
shows that the man is sorry that he has 20
grant it is robbed sometimes of all and
sometimes of more than all Its benefit. So
in serving the Lord If we serve Him, II we
serve the cause of decency. the cause oI
righteousness in a way that impresses
others with the fact that we are sad in do
ing it, our service is robbed of an immense
pr oportion of its efficacy.
The Inestimab1e Privilege.
eve have a right to ask a cheerful heart
"A right to ask a buoyant and cheerful
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 penalty.
1t is a privilege. Let me quote sentence
that / have quoted once before that I'M
pressed me very greatly: In TINS hfe the
man who wins to any goal worth winning
almost always comes to that goal with
burden bound on his shoulders.
.sThe man who does best in this world.
the woman who does best almost inevltaDiy
den Life is so constituted that the man or
the woman who has not got some responsi-
bility is thereby deprived OF the deepest
happiness that can come TO mankino, pc
cause each and every one of u.s. II he or
she is fit to live in the world. must be con-
scious that such responsibility rests on MIN
or on her-the responsibility of duty toward
those dependent upon us; the responsibility
of duty toward our families. toward our
friends toward our fellow citizens; the re-
sponsibility of duty to wife and child. TO
the state. to the church.
mot only can no man shirk some or all
of these responsibilities no man worth
his salt will wish to shirk them. On the
contrary, he will welcome thrice over the
fortune that puts them upon MIN 10 carry.
in closing 1 want to call your attention
to something that is especially my business
for the time being, and that Is your nnsi-
ness all the time, or else you are unf1t TO De
citizens of this republic. In the seventh
hymn which we sang in the last line, you
ali Joined in singing God Save the State.
Do you intend merely to sing that, or TO
try to do 1t? If you intend merely 10 sins
.'The state will be saved II the Lord puts
1t into the heart of the average man so to
shape his life that the state shall be worth
saving, and only on those terms. We need
civic Righteousness. The best constitution
that the wit of man has ever devised, the
best institutions that the ablest statesmen
in the world have ever reduced to practice
by Jaw or by custom. all these snail De CT
no avail if they are not vivified by the
spirit which makes state great by making
ii honest Just and brave in the first place.
81 do not ask you as practical believers in
applied Christianity to take part one way
or the other in matters that are merely pc
litical There are plenty of questions about
which honest men can and DO dtner very
greatly and very intensely. about which the
triumph 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 compatible with the welfare of
the state. But there are certain great prin
ciples such as those which Cromwell would
have called fundamentals, concerning which
no man has right to have but one opinion.
Such question is honesty.
1T you have not honesty in the average
private citizen. In the average public ser
want. then all else goes for nothing.
THE ADLER man is. the more dexterous,
the shrewder, the holder, why, the more
dangerous he Is il he has not the root of
right living and right thinking in hifn 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