The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-26
Mr Roosevelt Again Tries His Hand at SermOnizng
TELLS HOW ID SAVE STATE
We Need Civic Righteousness-lf You Have Not Honesty in Average Prl- vate Citizen All Else Goes
 for Nothing.


 Service to God and to the State was the subject of an address by President Roose- welt to the 1000 people who attended the public open air missionary service at Mount St. Albans, this afternoon. The President was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt Admiral Dewey and Brig. Gen. John M. Wilson.
 After a procession led by the marine band and chair of 800 voices, the clergy of the diocese of Washington and the bishop of the Anglican communions in America, the opening prayers were read by Bishop Doane of Albany. The Presi- dent was introduced by Bishop satteree. At the close of the Presidents address, the most Rev. Enos Nuttall archbishop of the West Indies, asked permission to say a word on behalf of the British peo- pie
 Speaking as he said. for them, he told of their reverence of the United States and for Theodore Roosevelt, ''The Man. and the Christian
 He declared that England welcomed the expansion of the United States into a world power and that if President Roose- welt should visit England, he would re- ceive the greatest welcome ever extend cd foreign visitor
 The President spoke as follows:
 RooseveIt's Sermon.
 Bishop Satterlee and to your represen- tatives of the church. both at home and abroad and to all of you, my friends and fellow citizens:
 T extend greeting and in your name l especially welcome those who are in sense the guests of the nation today. In what I am about to say to you, wish to dwell upon certain thoughts suggested 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 minr,' the next Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless and doves; and finally, in the collect which you, Bishop Doane just read, that We being ready in both in body and soul, may therefore accomplish these things which thou com- mandeth.'
 ITO an audience such as I have do not have the right to say anything as to serving the cause of decency with heart and with soul. I 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 mere ly that you shall put your souls into it, but that you shall give the best that your minds have go to it also.
 Efficiency Needed.
 'In the eternal and intending warfare for righteousness and against evil. the friends of what is good need not remem- Der that in addition to being decent, they must be efficient; that good intentions, high purposes cannot be effective, and a substitute for power to make those purposes the intentions felt in action. We have, however, the purpose and inten- ton.
 The state would be saved if the Lord puts it into the heart of the average man so to shape his life that the state shall be worth saving, and only on these terms. We need civic righteousness. The best constitution that the witness Of man has ever devised. the best institutions that the ablest statesmen in the world ever have reduced to practice by the law or by custom. shall be of no avail if they are not verified by the spirit which makes a state great by making it honest just and brave. I do not ask you as pfdcUCdl DeHeNtTS III dpplleu OnTlSl- ianty to take part one way or the other in matters that are merely political There are plenty of questions about which honest men can and do differ very greatly and very intensely, about which the triumph of either side may be com patible with the welfare of the state.
 Certain Great Principles.
 But there are certain great principles. such as those which Cromwell would have called fundamentals. concerning which no man has right to have but one opinion Such a question Is honesty. If you have not honesty in the average private cti- zen, or public servant, then all else goes although you need in each fighting man far more than courage. yet all else counts for nothing if there is not that courage upon which to base it. So in our civil life although we need that the average man in private, that the average public servant shall have far more than hon. esty vet all other qualities go for noth- ing or for worse than nothing unless hon. estv underlies them; the honesty that is aggressive; the honesty that snot merely deplores corruption. It Is easy enough to deplore corruption. but that which wars against it and tramples it under foot T ask for that type of honesty. I ask for militant honesty, for the honesty of the kind that makes those who have it discontented with themselves. as long as they have failed to do everything that in them lies to stamp out dishonesty wher-