The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-13
PULPIT GRACED
BY ROOSEVELT
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cared for: that the first duty of any
man. especially of the man who has
others dependent upon him. is to take
care OF them. and to take care of him
self. Nobody can help others if he be-
glns by being a burden on others. Each
man must be able to pull his own
weight, TO carry his own weight: and.
therefore, each man must show the ca
pacity to earn for himself and his fam
lily enough TO secure a certain amount
of material well-being. That must be
the foundation. But on that founda-
ton ne must build as a superstructure
the spiritual life.
Proper ideals.
zone of the best things done by this
society and by kindred religious and
benevolent societies is supplying i'm our
American life today the proper ideals.
1t is good thing TO have had the ex-
traOrdinaTy material prosperity which
has followed SO largely on the extra
ordinary scientific discoveries alluded
to by Justice. Brewer if we use this
material prosperity Alright. 1t is not
good thing. ii is a bad thing. if we
treat il as the end all of our life If
we make it the only ideal before this
nation. if we permit the people of tins
republic to get before their minds the
view that material well-being carried
to an ever-higher degree is the one
and only thing to be striven for, we are
laying up for ourselves not merely
trouble, but ruin. I. too. feel the faith
and hope that have been expressed
here today by the vice president and
the secretary of the society; but, I so
feel because I believe that we shall
not permit mere material welI-being to
become the only ideal in this nation.
because I believe that more and more
we shall accustOm ourselves to looking
at the great fortunes accumulated by
certain men as being nothing in them
selves. either to admire, to envy. or to
deplore, save as they are used well
or i'll.
If Used Well.
IF the great fortune is used well, if
the man who has accumulated it has
the strength necessary to resist the
temptation either TO use IL wrongfully,
or what is nearly as bad, not to use it
rightly-for negation may be almost as
harmful as positive wrong doing-he is
entitled to the praise due to whoever
employs great powers for the common
good If the man who accumulates
that great fortune uses it i'll or does
not use it well, then so far from being
an object Of envy, still less an object
of admiration, he should take his place
among those whom we condemn and
pity-for usually is we have the root of
the matter in US, we will pity those We
condemn. If he uses il Alright, then he
is entitled to our admiration, our
respect. exactly aS every man is en-
titled to our admiration, our respect,
exactly as every nan is entitled to it if
he has special talents and uses those
special talents for the welfare of the
people as a whole, for the uplifting of
mankind.
Changes of Half Century.
Wonderful changes have come in
the last half century. 1t may we'll be,
as Mr.. Justice Brewer has said that
we tremble on the verge of still greater
changes in the future The railway,
the telegraph, the telephone, steam.
electricity, all the marvellous mechani-
cal inventions, have changed much in
the superficial aspect of the world and
have, therefore, produced certain great
changes in the world itself. But after
al. in glorying over and wondering at
this extraordinary development l
think that we sometimes forget that,
compared TO the deeper things. it is in
deed only superficial i'm it's effect. The
qualities that count most in man and
in woman now are the qualities that
counted most 1000 years ago, and as
nation, we shall achieve success or
merit accordingly as we do or do not
display those qualities. Among the
members of this congregation is a man,
who, in his prime, served as the fleet
engineer of Farragut when Farragut
went into Mobile bay. That was forty
one years ago. The ships and the guns
with which Farragut did that mighty
feat are now almost as obsolete as the
galleys that fought for the mastery Of
the Aegean sea, when Athens waged
war on Sparta. They could no more
stand against n modern ship than
could the ships that fought against
the invincible Armada in 1899. But if
the need ever comes for this nation to
call on it's sons to face a foreign foe,
the call will or win not be made in
vain just exactly according to whether
we do or do not still retain the spirit
which drove Farragut and the men
under him onward 10 victory The gun
changes, the ship changes; but the
quality needed in the man behind the
gun, in the man who handles the ship,
are just the same as they ever were.
So it is in our whole material civiliza-
ton of today. The railroad, the teIe-
graph, all these wonderful inventions
produce new problems, confer new
benefits and bring about new dangers
Cities are built ZIP to enormous size.
and of course with the uDbuilding of
the cities comes the growth of the ter
Tible problems which confront all of
us who have to dc with city life. Out
ward circumstances change. New
dangers spring UP and old dangers
vanish but the spirit necessary to
meet the new dangers, the spirit neces-
sary to insure the triumph that we
must and shall win. is the same now
as it has always been. This is the
spirit which lies behind this society
and all kindred societies and we owe
to this society all the help we can at
ford to give; for it is itself giving to
our people a service beyond price, a
service of love, a service which no
money could buV''