Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-24
PRESS AND PULPIT
FURNISH ORATORY
Big Meeting of the Y. N. c. A.
in Convention Hall.
SONG SERVICE BY CHORUS
Speaker From Toronto Crested by
Canadian Delegates.
RENDER THE NATIONAL AIR
"CaIl of the Nation" TOPIC of News
paper Editor, While Bishop
Discusses Truth.
RENDER THE NATIONAL AIR

The press and the pulpit. or, as Vie
President Sweet put it. THE two great as
human forces" furnished the oratory las
evening at another great meeting in Con
vention Hall, under the auspices or TN
Young Mems Christian Association. In;
two principal speakers w2r7 Mr.. }.
Macdonald, editor and proprieto' OF tn;
Toronto Globe of Toronto, Canada. rep
resentihg the press, and Bishop VIII an
F. Mcdowell. LID. of Chicago repre-
senting the pulpit. Both were forcsfu
and convincing. and their remarks wer.
frequently rewarded by outbursts of ap-
plause.
Preceding the speaking was a song
service by the chorus and the Y. NJ {. A
Quartet. comprising Messrs. Paul Gilbert
of Duluth. first tenor; p. Fl. Metcalf oi
st. Paul. second tenor; C. NJ. keeler of
New York. baritone, and Edward \"
Peck of Minneapolis, basso The sing ers
were the recipient of several hearty en-
cores. The Y. NJ. c. A. Orchestra, Don
aid B. McLaod leader, also contributed
several numbers.
Judge Selden p. Spencer, president
called the meeting to order and announced
as the opening hymn, "Oh. worship Tn
King All Glorious Above" The We
president of the Y. NJ. c. A, Mr.. W. r
Sweet of Denver. then presented Editor
Macdonald. AS he stepped TO the 1ore
the large Canad an delegation arose and
sang the first stanza of the national song
of Canada, THE Maple Leaf" which call
ed forth rounds of APPLAUSE.
"Call of the Nation"
The subject of Mr.. Macdonald was the
a
Scotch accent and announcing himself
as a. Scotchman and a great-srandson. OF
n soldier of the war of 1T76-s ''on the
other side."- he said there had peeh
enoueh s1otehmen left after the revolu-
ton to establish Nova Scotia and fructfy
the countries to the north, south, east
and west ofsfhat land, He said the sturdy
Scotch are among the finest people OF
4. the garth.
Speaking. he added, a newspaper
man, and from the standing and view
point of his profession. the call OF the
nation is for the best brand OF Shrlstiah- an !.
ity that is obta;nable. He spoke OF the
laws of right, and declared that were not
made of man.
.-rhe laws are not made the speaker
went on to say. THE laws are The Ia w
which caused the apple to fall was In
the beginning Newton discovered 1t and
made IL known. Laws are not maze D..
congresses and pariiaments. The laws OIL
nature are being made known. The laws
Of the life of men have been discovered
and are being evolved They have not
been made. but are eternal in the life or
the man and the nation. 1t is the duty OF
every man to- do his share in the great
workshop of humanity.
Continuing, Editor Macdonald said the
character of a nation is appraised in the
qualifications Of it's individual men and
its officers. The work of the Y. M. c. A.
should be judged by the largeness Of Its
service by it's $4,000 members. ma
tion Is not great by its wide geographical
area, else Canada would be reckoned
one of the greatest countries in the
world; nor by its industries or its armed
forces. The true greatness OF nation
measured by the courage and mobility
of its citizenship and by the motives by
which il is moved.
Greatness Of a Country.
The speaker said II geographical lim-
its counted in the greatness of country
the Canadians could. for instance, take
the British islands and drop them into
one of their great lakes without making
a ripple that would extend to the shores
Facetious reference was made to the
remark of Gov. Glenn the evening be-
fore that the United States furnished
the world with 9 per cent Of its peanut
crop. and the speaker described the great
piles of wood pulp in Canada that ARE
waiting for the pulp-mills to convert
them into miles of paper for the news
papers of Canada and the United States" "
The men of the Y. NJ. Z. A might an
swer the call of the nation by standing
for the supremacy of political obligations
Mr.. Macdonald declare there is more pol
rics In Washington and Ottawa than in
the rest of the world. but the majority
OF citizens do not sstudy the questions
that save. They are too much involved
in work and pleasures. Some men in the
churches and the Young Mems Christian
Associations, too, are too pious for poll
tics There Is too much of the longing for
the streets of gold and the gates of jaspei
for them to undermine the kingdom OF
hell that Is here. To combat this evil the
heroes of today must not have feet OF
clay and hearts of straw.
The Y. NJ. c. A. can answer the call OF
, the nation by standing always and evel
for the rights of man as against the
oligarchy that is seekih; Sy.citl favors
and constituting tyranny. .he speaker
scored the aristocracy which controls the
opportunities Of wealth and absorbs more
OF the good things of life than it is en-.
titled to. He said there is also danger
from the false nolions of equality; that
the association stands for moral retribu
ton which obtains In all the life of man
secular and religious.
In the geography of your creed" hs
said. 'there/m must not be any free-and
easy section where there is no moral re
sponsbility.''
Falling Into Ruin.
Editor Macdonald spoke of the ancien
fortifcations on both sides Of the bound
ary line between Canada and the United
States which are failing into histori,
ruin; while the waters of the divIdin,
lakes are never disturbed by the rever
berations of hostile gun, and exclain
ed fervently:
Let it be so forever
The speaker urged that the Y. NJ. C. A
OF the two countries should teach the ma
ttons OF the word the power of peace an
good-feilowship. and the association mus
ever stand for truth. honor and the souar
deal
I'VE may buster and swagger fror
Mexico to Hudson bay, and our word
will be but firebrands. A nations great
ness is not in the tallness of its tax. bu
in the fiber of Its men,"
The speaker described the yaIor an
staiwartness Of the killed Highlander so
diers as they went into battle to the wa