New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-16
BROTHERHOOD HIS TOPIC.
ADDRESS By PRESIDENT.
He Speaks to His Fello7c Members
of Grace Reformed Church.

Washington. Dec. 15.-President Roosevelt at
tended the prayer meeting at Grace Reformed
Church, of which ne is member. tonight and
at the close of the service made q short ad-
dress to the large congregation and held an in
formal reception. shaking hands with all the
members of the church and the Sunday school
present Some time ago the President expressed
10 the pastor, the Rev. DR.. J. NJ Schick his de-
sire to meet his fellow members of the church.
and tonight set for the meeting the pas
tor sending invitations to all the members to be
present As a result the church was filed to
Overfiowing. The President arrived while the
service was in progress, unattended, except by
his colored valet, and took his seat in his pew.
At the close of the service he introduced
by the pastor, and spoke follows:
DR.. Schick and my friends ana neghbors and
fellow members OF this church:
AS the doctor has said | first asked for this
privilege and the doctor kindly arranged that
it should take place. I wanted to have the
chance OF saying to you how very greatly 1 have
enjoyed meeting and worshippiug with YOU
Sunday after Sunday, and how l have appre-
ciated the cOmpanionship with you. When |
was still Governor after l had been elected Vice
FfSident, the doctor wrote that this was the
c,ty Reformed church in Washington. and that
he thought he could claim me as q parfShiOnar
1t has meant great deal to me to be BILE
10 come down here Sunday after Sunday, and to
be with you. and especially for the very reason
touched upon by the doctor in the few words
brotherhood
l think that any man who takes an interest
in this great country of ours must realize that
the one all-impOrtant necessity of our social
industrial and political life is the necessity of
the realization of what brotherhood means We
cannot develop civilization at all unless we
develop it upon the basis of each recognizing
in his fellow man his brother whose interest
he must have at heart No scheme Of legiSla-
tion no kind of administration of the govern
ment. will atone, or can atone, for the lack OF
the fundamental quality of each being iii every
deed his brothers keeper.
! do not mean to talk about every seventh day,
but to feel II in the intervening six DAYS 10 feel
ployes, the part of the employees with the en-
ployer. 1hree-fourths. probably nine-tenthS Cf
the labor troubles that sometimes assume
ominOus form would vanish If YOU could in
terest the people each side to approach the
matter in the spirit of each striving to care for
his fellows he cares for himself. | 90 not
mean for a moment to neglect his own interests.
/ want a TO take care of himself. for if n
does not somebody else will have to take care oc
him. | want MIN TO remember that. ju addi-
tion to taking care of himself. he has got 10 try
to do his duty by others. If he will approach
his fellow men in the spirit which makes The use
term of hypocrisy. the difficulty Of dealing with
the great questions that arise Will be miuimized,
II not entirely done away with.
hope TO see the steady growth Of the Chris
tian spirit in this country not merely among
our congregations, among the members in their
dealings with one another. hut among the mem
beIS of our congregations in their dealng
with all mankind. iu their dealings with their
them: and in way can We 50 spread the
power and influence of Church. i'm no way
effectively bear testimony to il, I'm
no way can we so help in its growth. as by
showing that We have been. according 70 our
abilities, doers of the word we'll as hearers
not hearers only