The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-21
WITHOUT FAITH
NOTHING counts
Secretary Of State William J.
Bryan So Tells Audience
at Columbia Theater.
NJ EETING WAS FOR MEN
81 Society and Cooperation Depends
Upon Possession Of This
One Grace.

hat faith is more important than
rk, and that without faith nothing
importance caL be accomplished was
80 statement in an address on Faith
g lde by William Jennings Bryan. Secre-
- ~ of State, at a meeting for men, held
der the auspices and with the CO.
Grafton of the Y. NJ. c. A., the Pastors
8 Iteration Of Washington. the Epworth
f.eague. of the Methodist Episcopal
~aurch South, of Washington and VI
nifty. and the Presbyterian Young Peo-
pes Missionary Union, and the Christian
ndeavor Union, at the Columbia The
ter, yesterday afternoon. Every seat
as taken and standing room was at a
.remium.
DIR. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
and the Scripture reading was by Rev.
Paul b. Wellington, pastor Of the Mary
land Avenue Baptist Church. Dean
Charles L. Gregory, of the law depart
nlent of George Washington University,
presided over the meeting. There Were
a number Of musical selections and solos
by Miss Viola Shepherd and Mr.. Boyer.
and congregational singing under the d.
rection Of Percy Foster.
Without faith il Is impossible to do
anything Of importance" said Mr.. Bryan.
Faith is more important than work, as
where there is no faith there Is no work.
a men will not begin a great undertaking
without he has faith in his power to ac-
complsh il. He must not only have faith
in his intellectual and moral, but also in
his physical strength and his mental pre-
paredness."
BiE Heads Dangerous.
Continuing his address, he spoke OF
college education and said that there are
some people who have an idea that col
lege boys are egotistic and have too
much faith in themselves. IF a man
has a big head" said the Secretary of
State, You can whittle it down, but for
the man with the little head there is
absolutely no hope.
The consciousness that we are pre-
pared is the thing which gives us
strength, and the consciousness of not
being prepared inspires with the knowl-
edge of our own weakness. Conscious
ness OF preparedness is a very impor-
tant factor i'm ones success. One must
not only have intellectual preparation in
order to accomplish great work, not only
physical strength, but one must have also
moral purpose. A man engaged in
selfish cause cannot be strong, and
consciousness that is right is a factor
that man cannot overlook il he would
accomplish anything worth while.
Man must also have faith in his fellow
men If he would accomplish things. It
is better to trust and sometimes be dis
appointed than to go through life with
no trust in anybody. You have to have
faith. as all society and cooperation de-
ponds upon faith There is something
more than the mere education of the
mind; il is the education of the heart.
The man whose heart is shriveled up
and has no sympathy for his fellow-man
is going back and not forward
Hsrking hack to the day of political
campaigning, Secretary Bryan said that
sometimes in the midst of campaigning
we get so full of enthusiasm that We
say things which we would hardly rec
ognize after the heat or the campaign
is over
Col. Bryan said ii is the great faith
which the American people have in their
government which makes them say that
il is the best.