The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-17

man in it's entire record! It doesn't make men; it makes boosters, many bags and wind bags. Cowards at heart who are nothing when separated from their material resources-they go down at once when they meet some DaVld with his faith and his sling when you are looking for Washington, Tor 9 Jefferson, a Lincoln, 8 Graht or Roosevelt, or for such citizen-soldiers as those whose names illumine your records, you do not go to PhiAstia'
 Now all this Is not denial or the the value of the things to which philis- tinism pins It's faith. That is where philistinism gets what power it has; the things in which 1t trusts are good things, needed things for the worlds work and growth. But philistinism makes them an end and not means; 1t trusts in them wholly and says, "there is nothing else" Israel must have armies; but she must have faith, first of all, in the God of her armies, and believe that He is greater than all armies and that alliance with Him and QOtll& HIS VIII lo lllC pL l4IlcIlt GSpCDlIdAs David was armed, and armed with the weapon with which he was most famil- jar and in whLse use he was most ex- pert But he did not go out in the name of, his sling; that was only the means which a God-fearing man was using at the moment to work out Gods purposes for his people. That was the real difference between him and Goliath (text). That is always the real differ ence between the philistine and the man of the higher faith and the larger thought of life; he seeks and uses all the things on which Goliath depends, but he subordinates them always to his faith, to his seeking after man. hood; to his trust in God and the high CT values.
 believe in money. believe ir what ever philistinism depends on. I believe in war, sometimes; I believe in armies and guns and battleships, in a military establishment and training So that na- tions may be ready to contend for truth, succor the oppressed defend their liberties and open the way for the on-going of Christian civilization everywhere. I believe most of all in the National Guard, which has made unnecessary in America the support of a great standing army.
 As I review the history of such command as yours I find little evidence of the philistinism I am criticlsing to- day-whatever may be the case with the leaders and manipulators, the real soldier who carries the gun and does the fighting Is never philistine; he cannot be because he is a patriot and he learned to obey. Because you have not been philistines you are what you are in the life of this city, and this commonwealth; your power has not been in your numbers, you are small company. Your renown is not in your war record, though the record has been glorious-you have shed blood in every war waged since you were organ ized; you have gathered laurels, and each year you garland the graves of dead heroes who have borne your name and honored your uniform, on every historic field. But your power; your claim upon our respect, your rec ognized right to rejoice to-day rest not upon these facts. Your power and re- nown rest securely in your personnel, in the manhood of your men. The names on your roster of dead and llv- ing are the names of men who in citi- zenship, in society and state and the church have been true men oc faith and action; leaders in thought and every good work, who have kept the faith and fought good fight for truth and righteousness.
 That is why this community honors you and rejoices with you in these nine ty bright honorable years and in the prospects before you as you face the last decade of your first century. What do these ninety years teach you? The value of discipline, the value of men, the value of high ideals and a pure faith. Rich men and poor men have marched side by side and fought shoul- der to shoulder in your ranks. You have not worshipped the means. Ex- cellence in military training, manliness. self-control, ability to command, have won distinction among you. That Is the lesson. pray you learn it well. Organizations preserve the spirit of the times in which they were born and the temper and aims of their founders. You came into being when the sturdy young nation was beginning to realize the meaning of it's principles and to assert its right to be heard in the affairs of the world The spirit of the Revolu- tionary fathers was still regnant, the watchwords of the fathers were still potent. In your traditions and ideals you have maintained that spirit and repeated those watchwords. The men who organized your command were the strong men of their time--men who be- lieved in the republic and in God-lin- cal descendants of Revolutionary he- roes. They fixed your character and gave you your trend, Through all the years you have attracted such men to you and given them an arena suited to their tastes and powers.
 I beseech you, Grays, hold to the faith of the men who have made you strong faith in God, faith in manhood, faith in the republic, faith in the higher truths and values of life. Shun philistinsm