The Washington times., 1903-01-20

there are men who are content to say
they will como out ali right. but be-
cause there is q sufficient number of
earnest men, with the root of righteous
ness IN them. who are bound to see that
they come out right.
The remarkable concentration Of our
lives during the last half century has
rendered il possible for anything thai is
evil TO manifest itself more stronSly
than ever before. and therefore to make
1t necessary for us to see that the good
has q corresponding development. 4
hundred years ago there was no such
need for the Young Mems Christian AS
sociauons, for the invaluable Young
Women. Christian Associations. Life
was simpler. The temptation would
come surely 10 every man. but it would
not come so frequently ard in so in
tense a form.
AS the forces of evil manifested
themselves in stronger and stronger
form they had to be met. If they were
to be successfully grappIed with, by or
gained effort. by the effort of the
mary, which must always be stronger
than the effcrt of one. and the success
ful effort TO combat the forces of evil
had 10 take just such shape as has been
given 10 the growth of the Young Mems
Christian Associations. IT had to take
the shape OF combining decency and ef-
fciency- There are many things shat
are so true that il seems almost like
rruism to speak Of them and yet il is
continually necessary to speak of them
There have been phiIantbropic move
ments. led and supported by most excel
Lent people. which, nevertheless have
produced results altogether Uncommon
surable with the efforts spent, because
they failed 10 combine, as this move
ment has combined, a recognition of the
needs of human nature at the same time
that the rssoIute effort was made to
make that human nature better.
Among College Students.
The work Of the Y. N. C. A. has
grown so among college students. for a.
stance, because Il think I am right n
saying il has tried not to dwarf any or
the impulses of the young, vigorous man
but TO guide them Alright. It has sought
not TO make his Development oue-sided
not 10 prevent his being man, bu- to
see that he is in the fullest sense = man.
and q good man. I know that you viii
join with me in saying that We greet
tonight with peculiar pleasure the men
who served in the great war, The men
who fought on fields. the men who had
to rise afterward to the highest com
mands, who lad to show that the spiri,
OF the early COS was not yet extinct in
the American breast Those mer won
in the day Of trial because they and their
fellows had in them in the first place
the power of devotion to an ideal, ana
in the next place the strength TO realize
that power in effective fashion IF the
men of 1851 had not been driven forward .
by spirit which made them anxious TO /
lay down their lives if need should be
rather than TO see the flag of the Union I.
torn in twain; if they had not in them .
the lift toward Ioftier things which .
comes to those who value life as Of small /
account compared TO devotion to country (
and 10 the flag; if they had not in tho +
truest and greatest and deepest sense .
Of she word been patriotic. then no
amount OF lighting capacity would have .
saved them don't care how good nat
Iral soldiers or sailors they had been.
if their ambitions had been personal. If
each had been striving to build up him
self and had viewed his fellows as rivals
10 be tramDIed down for his own ad-
Fighting for One End.
If Grant and sherman and Thomas
md Farragut had not all felt that they
y-Te fighting for one end. that they grere
holding up the arms Of mighty Lincoln
is nc tol!e" and wrought AMI suffered
OF the peouie; if they had not felt that