The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-26
SERVICE TO GOD
And The STATE
President Roosevelt Delivers an
Open Air Address at Mount St.
@ Adams.
Speech Was Made in Connection
with the Pan-American Mis- I.
sionary Service.

Il Washington, Oct. 26.-'Intelligent
Service to God and to the State was
the subject of an address by Presl-
dent Roosevelt to the 1000 people VINO
attended the public open-air Pam
American missionary service at Mount
st. Albans yesterday afternoon. me
president was accompanied by MRS
Roosevelt Admiral Dewey and Briga-
der General John M. Wilson. In part
he said:
g 80 an audience such as this do not
have to say anything as to serving the
cause Of decency with heart ana win
souE 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 1T, but that you
shall give the best that your minds have
got to it also. In the eternal and unend-
ing warfare for righteousness and against
evil, the friends of what Is good need to
Remember that in addition to being decent
they must be efficient; that good inten-
tons, high purposes, cannot De ef1ectlVe
and a substitute for power to make those
purposes. these intentions, felt in action.
We must have the purpose and the lnten-
tion If our powers are not guided Alright
it 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
not merely to be harmless as doves, but
also to be wise as serpents. One of those
chara cteristic humorists whom this coun-
Try has developed, and who yelled under
Aiocular phrases much deep Wisdom-one
Of those men remarked that 1t was much
easier to be a harmless dove than a wise
serpent.
81 TWO Qualities Needed.
4 Now we are not to be excused if we
do not show both qualities 1t is not very
much praise to give a man to say he is
harmless. We have right to ask that ir
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 neigh
Dor; that together with innocence, to-
5gether with purity of motive, shall be
joined the wisdom and strength to make
that purity effective, that motive trans
lated into substantial result. Finally We
ask that we may be made ready both II
body and in soul, that we may cheerful!
accomplish these things that we are com
rnanded to do; ready both in body and il
soul; that we shall fit ourselves PHYSICAL!
and mentally fit ourselves by the wa.
In which we work with the weapons nee
tessary for dealing with this life no les
than with the higher spiritual weapons
fit ourselves thus to do the work com
,manded, and, moreover, do it cheerfully
Small is our use for the man who in
;dividually helps any Of us and shows tina
he does it grudgingy. We had rattle
not be helped than be helped in that way
"A favor extended in a manner whcl
shows that the man is sorry that he ha
to grant it is robbed sometimes of all an
Sometimes of more than all it's benefit
So. in serving the Lord, If we serve him
if we serve the cause Of decency, the caus
of righteousness In a way that inpresse
Others with the fact that we are sad i
doing it, our service is robbed Of an i'm
Of off O hou
+ a right to SIX a cheerful heart, right
ask a buoyant and cheerful spirit anon
those to whom is granted the inestimabl
privilege Of doing the, Lords work in th1
world. The chance to do work, the dut
to do work, is not a penalty, it is a priv