February 1, 1917.] 



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Bishop DuMoulin. 



brought a Bishop from Ohio. He is a man who is responsible 

 for my well-being in the paths that I walk, and some other 

 rubber men that I know. Whether he has fulfilled that re- 

 sponsibility it is up to you gentlemen to judge. Before bringing 

 him down here, we didn't take any chances — I spent my vacation 

 with him, and he lives second door to a rubber president, .and 

 we concluded that we would like to have him spread the in- 

 fluence among our friends. I am sure you will be interested in 

 hearing from my friend and bishop, Frank DuMoulin. 

 BISHOP DU MOULIN ON .AMERICA'S ETH1C.\L OPPORTUNITIES. 

 Genial Bishop DuMoulin, whose beneficent influence has found 

 such generous expression in the welfare ivurk of the rubber fac- 

 tories of Ohio, spoke with 

 earnestness and enthusiasm 

 in appreciation of the im- 

 portance of the finer sensi- 

 bilities in business and social 

 relations. Four types of men 

 represent about all there is of 

 life to-day, according to Bishop 

 DuMoulin, the commercial, 

 man, the teacher, the ethical 

 man — ever growing more im- 

 portant in this humanitarian 

 age — and the prophet. The 

 viewpoints, achievements and 

 shortcomings of each in their 

 relations one to another he 

 pictured convincingly, and then 

 in the role of both prophet and 

 ethical man he pictured bril- 

 liantly the wonderful opportun- 

 ities for progress in every line of huiiian endeavor. Said he in 

 conclusion : 



It is a mark of the age that a minister, a weak-kneed, effeminate, 

 anaemic minister, if you please, should be allow-ed to sit at this 

 board with e.x-presidents and kings of finance as they discuss the 

 merits of the greatest factor and element in all the world's his- 

 tory, and that he should be allowed to make his contribution to a 

 symposium of the character in which we have all joined tonight. 

 It is because men consciously or unconsciously are getting down 

 to the roots of things, are getting down to the fundamental bases 

 upon which the whole of life is structured and upbuilded and 

 developed. * * * You and I are living in an age which will 

 be looked upon, when the history of life is written, as being 

 the greatest transitional age the world has ever seen. There is 

 not the element of finality about this age ; there is not a single 

 atom of completeness about it ; it is a contradictory age ; it is an 

 introductory age ; it is an age of expediency ; the human race 

 is forward bound, its hope is in the future, its golden age has 

 yet to come ; it is in the vanguard of things ; it is looking forward 

 as it never looked forward before, save in one period of three 

 years, in all its far-reaching: history. Why, the world has reached 

 that adolescent period in its history, in its development, which 

 constitute it the mightiest opportunity for the men who live in 

 it that has ever been given to any generation of the sons of man. 

 Because we have reached the heir of the ages, we have reached 

 that time that we may well call the nick of time, the strategic 

 era, the pivotal point in the world's history, when every act of 

 morality and truth and self-sacrilice and goodness to-day will be 

 worth a hundred later on, just as it is worth a hundred of any- 

 thing that has gone. You and I have the privilege of living in 

 the mightiest epoch of human affairs tliat history has ever re- 

 corded or men have ever known ; that accounts for its confusions, 

 its upheavals, its cataclysmic and almost unbelievable desires, 

 because the whole world is in influx, is in process, is forward- 

 bound, is in its birth pangs of suffering and blood; and there is 

 a brighter day upon us. As we stand on this threshold age, the 

 eastern sky is streaked with the crimson of the morning sun of 

 a new day, created by the blood-red banners that spell progress 

 and happiness and achievement for our humanity, and may a 

 beneficent Creator who has given us the privilege of living at 

 this epoch in human affairs, give us such sense of responsibility 

 in our commerce, and our education and our ethics, that we may 

 be fitted to the age in which we live, that we may to the full 

 realize the maximum of progress, that we may gain the largest 

 dividend of human welfare and achievement, until the knowledge 

 of truth, of God, and all that is best in life, shall cover this wide 

 world as the very waters cover the sea. 



THE MEMBERS AND GUESTS PRESENT. 



AT THE PRESIDENT'S TABLE. 



Appleton, Francis H. 



Bourn, Hon. A. O. 



Clifton, Col. Chas. 



Cole, W. T. 



Colt, Hon. Le Baron B. 



Colt, Col. Samuel P. 



Du Moulin, Rt. Rev. Frank 



Firestone, Harvey S. 



Hodgman, George B. 

 MacRoberts, Samuel 

 Malone, Dudley Field 

 Perez, Ernesto C. 

 Pinheiro, H. C. de Martins 

 Taft, Hon. William Howard 

 Voorhees, John J. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST. 



Abbott, J. M. 

 .Vchelis, F. G. 

 Adams, H. J. 

 Aldrich, Edward B. 

 .Altscliuler, A. A. 

 Andersen, E. A. 

 .\nderson, J. D. 

 Andrews, Don E. 

 .\ppleton, Edwin J. 

 .Appleton, Lloyd E. 

 Armitage, J. D. 

 .Xrm^trong, H. G. 

 Arnold, W. H. 

 Arthur, Geo. D. 

 Ashcroft, R. W. 

 .Austin, F. G. 

 Ayer, P. P. 



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Babcock, F. Huntington 

 Babcox, E. S. 

 Badenhop, Robert 

 Bailey, S. R. 

 Baird, Collier W. 

 Baird, H. W. 

 Baird, Robert L. 

 Baird, William T. 

 Baldwin, S. D. 

 Ballou, Roland H. 

 Ballnu, Walter S. 

 Barker, Wm. E. 

 Barnard, Harold H. 

 Barnard, O. A. 

 Barnes, C. W. 

 Barton, B. W. 

 Bass, W. F. 

 Bass, W. H. 

 Bassett, T. W. 

 Basten, Otto 

 Bates. Charles Austin 

 Beal, H. L. 

 Bedell, Harold H. 

 Behrens, Henry 

 Belcher, Edwin W. 

 Bers, Aaron 

 Bers, Edward 

 Berrien, W. P. 

 Besaw, Charles A. 

 Birkenstein, Louis 

 Bishop, Erie A. 

 Blackwell, Wilson H. 

 Blanchard, F. C. 

 Blanchard, J. C, Jr. 

 Blandin, Victor C. 

 Blatt, H. D. 

 Bourn, Lyman M. 

 Brandes, C. O. 

 Brewster, L. O. 

 RrinckerhofF, E. A. 

 Broadwell, E. H. 

 Brodhead, Garrett, Jr. 

 Broughton, J. S. 

 Brown, Andrew H. 

 Brown, A. H. 

 Brown, J. Stuart 

 Bruyn, W. E. 

 Buckleton, E. E. 

 Rudlong, M. J. 

 Burlev, H. B. 



Burnett, Aaron 

 Burr, A. E. 

 Burrage, H. L. 

 Burrill, W. S. 

 Butler, O. 

 Byles, L. M. 

 Byrne, F. L. 



Caldwell, J. C. 



Caldwell, R. J. 



Campbell, C. E. 



Campbell, Phillip H. 



Candee, C. N. 



Candee, W. L. 



Carberry, John D. 



Carkhuff, S. G. 



Carlisle, C. H. 



Carlton, C. C. 



Carnahan, G. H. 



Carroll, J. M. S. 



Cartmell, Van H. 



Case, C. C. 



Casey, J. J. 



Cast, J. F. 



Cattle, Geo. T. 



Chad wick, W. H. 



Chadbourne, Joseph 



Chandler, J. J. 



Chichester, Ira 



Chilcote, Samuel S. C. 



Chipman, R. L. 



Clark, Mr. 



Clark, M. H. 



Clark, S. H. 



Clemens, James 



Clements, James 



Clements, Dr. R. L 



Cobb, J. H. 

 Cobbell, H. R. 

 Colt, Roswell C. 

 Conant, Richard G. 

 Cone, Charles A. 

 Cone, Frederick H. 

 Cone, John 

 Conlin. A. J. 

 Cook, C. S. 

 Cook, Mortimer M. 

 Cnrnell, A. B. 

 Cory, Robert H. 

 Couch, C. A. 

 Coughlin, E. J. 

 Coughlin. T. B. 

 Covell, George F. 

 Cowen. R. R. 

 Cowenhoven, C. S. 

 Craven, B. 

 Cramer, M. L. 

 Crowley, John T. 

 Cummings. E. O. 

 Cummings, H. H. 

 Cummines. W. L. 

 Curtis, F. L. 

 Cutler, David A. 

 Cutter, W. O. 



Daggett. H. A. 

 Daniel. C. A. 

 Dannerth, Frederic 



