The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

The New York papers devoted from
half q column to a column OF space
to the speech OF Secretary of the Navy
Daniels before the New York Confer
ence last Friday evening. The fellow
ing is a condensed symposium OF
their news Stories" |
The Herald. !
The Secretary OF the Navy, jose
plus Daniels. came from Washington |
to speak at a dinner last night given
by members attending the Methodist
Conference. More than two hundred
were at the tables in the dining rooms
Of the Bombay Hotel. Madison ave
nue. and Ninety-secondo street. When
the Secretary arrived he was cheered
loudly by the assembled preachers and
their wives.
The Secretary addressed his listen
ers as Ladies n brethren his
friendliness at once meeting with gen
eral approval. He began by d~eploring
the division existing in the ranks of
his fellow churchmen. 81 regret that
the Methodists haven't the vision to
see that they must mobilize. They
have not been able to take the ram
parts of sin because OF this division
he said. Now when 1 see in Seattle
Southern Methodists building q
church where they nave no business TO
build, and when I see in Atlanta your
church building where you have no
business to build. I say it is wrong.
Methodists should mobilize. What We
need is unity
Continuing, he said, THE Bishop
said l was a reformed editor. An
editor needs no reforming, and I have
not quit editing because the Secretary
of the Navy is the managing editor of
the navy" He also referred to himself
as the president of the biggest college
In this country. Harvard, Yale and
Princeton. why, those are just little
schools compared to my educational
institution" he said.
That Mr.. Daniels approves OF
Billy Sunday was made clear. And
his sentiments were echoed by nearly
all OF the two hundred preachers
present.
Now. tell me, what is the secret o.
Billy Sundays success as q preach.
err" he inquired. and answered tn,
question by declaring that it is the re
vivalists old fashioned faith ant
boldness, coupled with his genius
New. don't think that 1 mean an.
preacher ought to initiate BILLY
Subway. ne pTODaDly make q mis-
erable failure OF it If he tried and b
put out at first base. No man in tn
pulpit has q right TO be an imitator,
he aid
That the Secretary Of the Nay
thoroughly approves Of baseball ais
was brought out in his speech.
IF 1 could get every preacher i
this conference to playing baseba,
they would get in touch with NOR
people than in any other way h
said. 1.-THE fayorite American game
the greatest bond Of sympathy "
have. l have to appoint thirty c
more chaplaii-s to the navy in a littl
men m said he kept in touch wit
h diamond. and the other applicar
didn't. other things being equal. r
choose the n who knew about tn
diamond"
Again he referred to the chaplair
In the navy. w W. spent million
and millions of dollars in buildin
dreadnaughts and superintendent
~aeroplanes and other war craft. b,
we haven't added one man to the Ii
OF chaplains In the navy. Ships ha,
gone away Tor a year or two year
perhaps' without a chaplain, in mo-
than fifty years we have increased =,
navy rapidly but have let the cha,
lains remain the same in numher
they were in the old days.
The Tribune.
Praise Of Abraham Lincoln. w
liam Mckinley, Woodrow Wilso
Billy Sunday and Methodism. togeth
with a recital Of the reforms viii
he had established and hoped to 6
tabiish in h nav formed the CHI
topic OF the address delivered by
sephus aniels. Secretary Of the Nav,
The three greatest Presidents Il
country has RV0r Ennurn oo~o~ls--
h Secretary. were through Divi
d~ispenSatiOn, the three who p7,idod