50 Presidential Addresses 



brotherhood, of a future when the sense of duty to 

 one's neighbor will extend beyond national lines. 

 They are good omens for the future, these actions : 

 that action which' culminated to-day in establishing 

 the free Republic of Cuba; that action which made 

 our country the first to reach out a generous and 

 helping hand to those upon whom calamity had 

 fallen, without regard to what the flag was to which 

 they paid allegiance. 



AT THE OVERFLOW MEETING OF THE CEN 

 TENNIAL OF PRESBYTERIAN HOME MIS 

 SIONS, CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 

 NEW YORK, N. Y., MAY 20, 1902 



Mr. Chairman; Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I am glad to have the chance of saying a word to 

 you this evening, and I know you will pardon me 

 if it is but a word, for I did not anticipate that there 

 would be another meeting at which to speak. 



Of course, the very first thing that any nation has 

 to do is to keep in order the affairs- of its own house 

 hold ; to do that which is best for its own life. And 

 as has been so well and truthfully said, Dr. Van 

 Dyke, by you this evening, the vital thing to a nation 

 is the spiritual, not the material. Napoleon said 

 that in war the moral was to the material as ten to 

 one ; and it is just exactly as true in civil and social 

 life. I do not mean for one moment to undervalue 

 the material. We must have thrift, business energy, 

 business enterprise and all that spring from them, 



