Arizona republican., 1903-02-27
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT
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and therefore our, fate. From this fate we have been largely rescued by the fact that together with the rest Of | the pioneers went the pioneer preach CTS; and all honor be given to the Methodists for the great proportion of these pioneer preachers whom they furnished
 These preachers were of the stamp Of old Peter Cartwright-men who suf- fered and overcame every hardship in common with their flock, and who in addition tanned the wild and fierce spirits of their fellow pioneers It was not task that could have been accom- phshed by men desirous to live in the soft places of the earth and to walk easily on life's journey. They had to possess the spirit of the martyrs: but not of martyrs who could oppose only passive endurance to wrong. The pio- ncer preachers warred against the forces of spiritual evil with the same | fiery zeal and energy that they and their fellows showed in the conquest or | | the rugged continent. They had in | them the heroic spirit, the spirit that i scorns ease if it must be purchased by | failure to do duty. the spirit that
 
 if the goal to be reached is really worth | ! attaining. Great is our debt to these men and scant the patience we need show toward their critics At times they seemed hard and narrow to those whose training and surroundings had saved them from similar temptations: and they have been criticized, as all men, whether missionaries, soldiers, ex- n1nrnrc f-or, tio,. cized when they go forth to do the rough work that must inevitably be done by those who act as the first harbingers, the first heralds. of civilI- zation in the worlds dark places + is easy for those who stay at home in comfort. who never have to see hu- manity in the raw, or to strive against the dreadful naked forces which ap- pear clothed, hidden and subdued in civilized life-it is easy for such to criticize the men who in rough fashion. and amid grim surroundings, make ready the way for the higher life that is to come afterwards; but let us all remember that the untempted and the effortless should be cautious in passing too heavy judgment upon their breth- ren who may show hardness, who may | nevertheless do the great deeds by . which mankind advances. These pIo- neers of Methodism had the strong, militant virtues which go to the ac- complishment of such great deeds f Now and then they betrayed the short 2 comings natural to men of their type; I but their shortcomings seem small in $ deed when we place beside them the 2 orI1itIIdn fyf ha bay
 And now, friends, in celebrating the t wonderful growth of Methodism, In re- Q joicing at the good it has uone to the = country and to mankind, I need hardly = ask body like this to remember that = the greatness of the fathers becomes = to the children a shameful thing if c they use it only an excuse for inac- l ton instead of as spur to effort for q noble aims. I speak to you not only : as Mcthodists-I speak to you ;;s Amer :. ican citizens. The pioneer days are $ over. We now all of us form parts oi d a great civilized nation, with a con- plex industrial and social life and in1- y nite possibilities both for good and fol $ evil. The instruments with which. ant n the surroundings in which, we work Ii have changed immeasurably iron
 
 l. rough backwoods preachers ministeret IT to the moral and spiritual needs o q their rough backwoods congregations
 But if we are to succeed, the spirit il # which we do our work must be the 1t same as the spirit in which they dit ,e theirs. These men drove forward, ant t. fought their way upward, to success ,a because their sense of duty was in thei z breasts in ha of Id bones. It was not with them some T. thing to be considered as a mere ad
 junct to their theology, standing sep
 arate and apart from their daily life T. They had it with them week days a $. well as Sundays. They did no; divorc
 the spiritual from the secular. The.
 did not have one kind of conscience fo .. one side of their lives and another fo ..- another.
 :. Well, if we are to succeed as natfo < we must have the same spirit in us. W '':' must be absolutely practical, of course h and must face facts as they are. Tn ?; pioneer preachers of Methodism coul l. not have held their own for fortnigh pr if they had not shown an intense prao
 ticality of spirit, if they had not pos he sessed the broadest and depeest sym
  co fellow men. But in addition to tn DIV hard, practical common sense needle
 by each of us in life, we must have . lift toward lofty things or we shall b '1 lost individually. and collectively as - nation. Life is not easy. and least ( Y, all is it easy for either the man or til L, nation that aspires to do great deed II In the century opening the play of tn Y infinitely far-reaching forces and ten6 H. encies which go to make up our socis
 system bids fair to be even fiercer
 it's activity than in the century whic n has just closed. If during this centur IT the men of high and fine moral sens ~, show themselves weddings; if the r possess only that cloistered virtu r which shrinks shuddering from contac o,. with the raw facts of actual life; C they dare not go down into the hurlJ nc burly where the men of might conten
 for the mastery: if they stand aSi6