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whatever that work may be, necessary to make good 

 the work that you did; to acknowledge the inspira 

 tion of your careers in war and in peace; and to 

 remind ourselves once for all that lip loyalty is 

 not the loyalty that counts. The loyalty that counts 

 is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than 

 in words; and therefore we pledge ourselves to 

 make good by our lives what you risked your lives 

 to gain and keep for the nation as a whole. 



AT THE CENTENNIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD 

 OF HOME MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN 

 CHURCH, CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, N. Y., 

 ON THE EVENING OF MAY 20, 1902 



Mr. Chairman; and you, my friends for if this 

 meeting means anything, it means a commemor 

 ation of the embodied spirit of friendship and 

 righteousness working through the Church 

 through generations 



I am glad to have the chance of greeting you to 

 night. I belong to a closely allied Church the 

 Dutch Reformed. I want to tell you a curious inci 

 dent which was mentioned to me by one of the two 

 gentlemen who, on your behalf, met me this evening 

 and brought me up here. Mr. Ogden mentioned 

 to me that two hundred and sixty or seventy years 

 ago, the first church of my denomination here in 

 this city was put up under contract by his ancestors, 

 who then dwelt in Connecticut. It is, I think, 

 in a sense symbolical of how much the Church has 



