The Washington times., 1908-05-16
Nations Future Secure.


both brave OF heart and cool of head
while not for a moment refusing 20
see and acknowl ledge The many evils
around as, must yet also Feel CONT
shall win and not lose, that the con-
furV that has just opened VIII see great
triumphs for our people. "
But the suTest way 10 achleNe tills
triumph is, while never losing hope and
belief in our progress, yet at me same
time 10 refuse to blind ourselves 20 WHdt
Is evil in the complex play OF the many
forces. working through, ana Win. anu
against one another. In the upbulldin5
~ our social structure There IS mucil
that tends toward evil as we'll as much
that tends toward Soodi ana inc tue
patriot IS that man VINO. without losihs
faith in the good. does his pest 20 COM
bat the evil. to stamp II out WherS naL
IS possible and at least TO minimize It's
results.
prosperity such as ours, neces-
sary though il he as the material
basis o. national greatness, ineVi-
fabIV lends to undue eXaltatiOn or
the merely material side Of the
national character; and we must
largely rely on the efforts OF such
men and women as those l am adj
dressing TO build up the spiritual
life without which the material life
amounts to nothing.
AS generation succeeds generation
the problems change in their external
shape; old needs vanish, and new needs
arise; but 81 remains as true as ever
thar in the last analysis national great
ness, national happiness, national sue
cess, depend upon the character or the
Individual man and individual woman.
Good Laws Needed.
I'VE need good laws: we need to have
these laws honestly and fearlessly ad-
ministered; We need wealth; we need
science and art and all the kindred ac-
tivities that spring from the clever brain
and the defL hand. But most of all We
need the essential qualities that In their
sum make up the good man ana the
good woman most OF an we heSu Ia :
hne and healthy family life the lack OF
which makes any seeming material
prosperity but glitteTing sham
IF the average man IS brave and
Woodworking and Clean-living, If the
average woman has the qualities WslcIt
make a good wife and good mother, II
each has self-reSpect, and II each real
ICES that the greatest thing in life is
the chance TO do service-why, then the
future OF the nation is secure We can
not stand Up for what IS good IN man
hood and wOmanhOod without condemn
ing what Is evil We must condemn the
weak and COWdTdly. the man VINO rails
to do his duty by the public, VINO IS a
bad neiEhbOr, an idler. an inCOnslderate
and selfish husband, neglectful father
$50 also we must condemn the
woman who, whether from cow
ardlce or GOODNESS, from selfish
love of ease or from lack of all
true WOmanly quality, refuses to do
Alright her great and alI-essential
duties of WifehOOd and motherhood.
We admire a good man; but we
admire a good woman more. We
believe In her more. All honor is
due the man who does his full
duty I'm peace, who as a soldier
does his full duty In war; but
even more honor is due the mother.
No human being has a greater title
10 respect than the mother who
does her full duty, who bears and
rears plenty of healthy children,
SO that there shall be national
growth and not national decadence,
so that I'm quality and in quantity
our people shall increase. The
measure of our belief In and re-
spect for the good man and the
- good woman must be the measure
Of our condemnation Of the man
and the woman who, whether from
ViciOusness or seIfishness or from
yapid folly, fails to do each his or
her dBty in his or her special
sphere.
"CouTa &c. unseIfshness, common
sense. devotion to high ideals, proper
care for the Things of the spirit, and
Yet also for the things OF the body
these are what we most need to see in
our people: these are the qualities that
make up the right type of family life;
and these are the qualities that by pre-
Cept and by example you here, whom
l am addressing, are bound to do all
IN your power TO make the typical
qualities OF American citizenship"
President Receives.
After the speech-maIling the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt received the Wis
iting Methodists IN the adjacent College
OF History, the only completed build
ing OF the American University group
low in process of erection.
During the intermissions between the
speeches, the Temple Male Quartet
sang the general song service being un-
der the direction of Percy 5 Foster. The
entire. ceremonies were open to the pub
lie ana constitute an important after
event OF the great conference just closed
IN Baltimore.
Following the exercises Of the after
noon, the Woman's Home Missionary
Society OF the conference will give a
banquet in honor of Bishop and Mrs
Cranston az Rust Hail. In addition "a
the churchmen. a number OF prominent
laymen viii attend, including Vice
President Fairbanks Senator Taylor
Senator Burkett. Representative J. E.
Waston. and Representative ". s.
Green.
VIII Hold Rally.
Arrangements have also been made
for a general mass meeting and rally
of the missionary workers who will
remain over in the city tomorrow. al
TIT Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock
Missio nary workers from all parts Of the
world have attended the conference ana
VIII participate in these exercises The
meeting will be presided over by Mrs
Robert NJ. Moore president Of the Mis-,
ionsry Association of the Washington
district. Among the speakers viii bt