The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-05

large meeting of the Knights of Co
lumbus on Social Vision" after
which the individual members who
| discovered he possessed a fund of wit
and humor had him tell OF his expert
ences. These were all illustrated with
| witty sayings and jokes which he APP
piled to Pensacola and Pensacolians.
My stay in your city has brought
| me to a realization that after all New
York city is not the only place. This
| is the only city I have visited where
I have not felt the craving to go home.
| Your people are the welcoming type.
From the moment I set foot off the
| train up to the present have received
| nothing but wonderful and sincere
| handshakes and words of encourage
ment in my work from men and wom-
en- of all creeds.
your city and its activities par
| ticularly during the past week have
demonstrated to me that your people
| possess wonderful organizational abil-
| ity. To think of a committee arrang-
| ing within six weeks such a 1audable
| Mardi Gras! The community has dem
| onstrated to me that community spirit
! exists. The events that occurred with
| in this city of some 10000, compare
lively speaking, are just as stupendous
as the events that my home city, New
York, brings about-a city of over
| 100000 with trading population Of
| 100000.
| "The greatest tribute that can be
| paid to any American city is not that
| it knows the constitution of the United
States, but that it lives up to the prin-
l afn nF +o ho
down to us from the great patriots
who signed it. mean this, and I say
/ 1t sincerely and honestly that Pensa-
cola is in my estimation a City of
| federation Peoples OF all creeds rub
| elbows here and greet each other as
| only true Americans should-with an
| open heart and misunderstanding not
his brother citizen. Such spirit
| have observed and such a spirit gives
lasting impression OF this, your city
and, I am almost tempted to say,
my city--a city which is a beautiful
jewel in the crown OF the goddess of
liberty.
"'Socia1 Vision is a broad subject
to cover and If at times I am not
clear and tire you, use the gavel to
let me know.
1.-THE first essential that should be
present in any mans mind, that is, if
he wishes to be honestly convinced, in
unprejudiced thought. Thought must
be stripped of all our likes and dis
likes, we must get out OF our little
selves or, better still, take our minds
and place them without ourselves
look straight at them, recount the
convictions without self coming into
play at all.
THE proposition to be placed must
also be void of prejudice and the ar
gumentauon must be backed up by
facts Of history to prove it's worth
The purpose of the proposition must
be honest and sincere and it must
possess sympathy. The proper and
unprejudiced organization of thought
must be placed logically and honestly
TO this mind. Therefore, to be recep- |
tive to the purpose of my thought, II
ask that you for the time place your
mind outside Of any selfish purpose |
you possess about the proposition I
wish to present and do not permit !
that mind to enter within it's selfish |
ness until 1 have finished.
You all have read in your Bibles the |
story OF Christ preaching to the null
titudes. You all here today, nineteen
centuries after Christ preached these
words. are able to apply them to our
every day life. And why? Simply
because Christ possesses. apart from
His divine, also what. for the sake of
a word, we will call material vision.
In talking to the multitudes he was
keeping in his minds eye the multi
tudes down the ages to our present
day and beyond.
you, all, have beheld that MASTER
piece art of Christ. seated on hill
outside of the city of Jerusalem, with
eyes turned toward the ruins of that
city, the words under which read IF
thou hadst known This fact pre-
sents to the mind, at least in the
Christian way of thinking, that Jeru
salem did not possess that which we
now refer to as social vision
Il recall having heard the Rev. Paul
James Francis, the Friar of the Atone
men. preach upon the Mount of the
Atonement, opposite West Point, in
New York state, to a multitude who
had gathered there to hear him. Men
of ell religious beliefs and of various
social standing-for you know he has
on that mount what is known as The
Inn,' wherein men who
tramp the road from city to city may
receive q meal and a bed for which
they volunteer to labor, and If they
prove worth their hire, they are en-
ployed until they are made assets
rather than liabilities, Then are they
sent forth with a job already secured
for them, through the F'riars endeav-
ors, to the city beyond. His sermon
was on the future activities of The
Mount He told OF the care of these
tramps and how he intended to con-
duct his future activities. This man
possessed social vision.
1.-The great Napoleon possessed a
different social vision. His purpose
was selfish. Through the acquisition
of territory his country would become
great and. of course, with it his power
would bear greater authority and ex-
He became an obstruc-
ZIONIST and the worlds powers had to