The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-27

Ross address is given in full elsewhere.
Address OF Morris Ross.
Tho address OF Mr.. Ross. reviewing the
history OF the movement and predicting
great things for the future. follows:
THE address of the president of the
lsOl-the first year of the twentieth CEN
tury-is become historic. To-day we turn
the page on which 1t was written to begin
meeting OF the mission to view OF the
whole army, quoting one OF General Harri-
sons inspiring and felicitous comparisons
or how the soldiers heart was strengthened
by an enlarged comradeship; his pace
.Quickened when he advances to battle If a
glapce 10 the right or the left revealed a
marshaled host moving in unison to exc
cute single battle plan.
I've celebrate to-day the capture of the
fortress. We are In the citadel: here 1t is.
The battle has been fought and won. Joy
at She victory. admiration for the army.
wonder at the plan of the battle may well
contend In our feelings to-day 1t was a
small army-this one that marches under
the fowery banner. but 1t was made up of
seasoned veterans. Twenty-Five years in
the service IL was then-and 1t had rallied
20 the trumpet that shall never call re-
treat And do We not all feel that this
little army measures In heart-beats the
other lines?
% be swift. my soui. to answer Him. be 1u-
1T was army that never took fur
louEh- In twenty-five years it had never
beeh absent from its post. To quote this
historic address, Its doors are open when
the church doors are closed 1t does not
give ntful or intermittent help. 1t Is thor
ough, Intelligent, sympathetic and resource
ful IL its work. 1t Is pillar against which
strength to walk alone. 1t unites the quail
tty OF personal service with the advantages
that follow from efficient organization
THE SUPREME VALUE.
There lies the supreme value-ef1icient
organization-and it reaches far A first
achievement of it is this great victory.
And yet the real marvel is the simplicity
OF the plan that arrayed the battle. The
president-or shall We say. commander-in
this last review before the final charge
In the very next sentence Of this address 70
which I have alluded, said: We believe
efficient organization has a distinct value
over individual effort and then, detailing
the three branches into which the organ
tzed effort was divided, came directly to
this point: There Is no hospital for an in
every case OF lingering fatal illness among
the depenoent sick poor on the bounty OF
There Is the battle arrayed Here was
the bugle call to fall In There is need
OF simple home in some quiet clean place
where persons may be taken who are now
such to-day. I am sure that when
the attention Of our citizens is called 10
the necessity OF home for incurables that
ously.'
CALL TO BATTLE.
THAT IS all. I have examined this ap-
peal or call 20 battle. carefully. Oh, some
words about bringing peace to suffering
and about claims to sympathy and an
effort to demonstrate the money-saving II
would be to the community, and so forth
and on-the sort OF thing that we hear
90 often. as to suggest the Greeks when
st. Paul preached to them the doctrine
Of the resurrection. Some wagged their
heads and others said. We will hear thee
again OF this matter
ct grieve to say-from a worldly point OF
view, Snust say it-that the ignorance OF
THIS embattlsd host. commander, rank and
fle as IL stood there. was something pro-
found and appalling Actually, this little
army did not know another thingl 1t sim
piy stood at the forks OF the road staring
At the invisible and challenging the wind
Its call to battle was just voice crying in
tbs wilderness But not vox ct praeterea
ninil. There was an echo. 1t breaks or
the ear STILL We can hear II plainly. II
Is. % ye Of little faith and again. here
tosore we have asked nothing.
IT shot an arrow into the air:
FOR so = swiftly It few. the sight
1T breathed a song into the air;
II fell to earth. I knew not where.
FOR who has sight keen and strong
That II can follow the flight OF song?
Long long afterward. In oak
I found the arrow. still unbroke;
And the song. from beginning TO end.
I found again In the heart OF friend .
THAT friend! II there is any one I envy
fust now II Is that friend In whose heart
This song found Judgement, and who came
ur with reinforcements 5000 strongi / envy
himl Or maybe IT Is Her-one Of the WON,
er-God bless them!
SHEER FAITH.
but what was there here but faith-sheel
faith? Did any one dream that munificencs
lay but waiting the voice that should call Il
out? But look further. Instead OF asking
for a subscription. even a munihcent one
the appeal was for whole hospiteli True
Il was put In the euphonious phrase OF "a
simple home in quiet. clean place.
Hut for one firmly believe that the sub
lime faith that could make that request
unconsciously subconsciousIy at thai
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