134 Presidential Addresses 



AT NORTHFIELD, MASS., SEPTEMBER i, 1902 



My Fellow-Citizens: 



Here near the seat of the summer school for young 

 men founded by Dwight L. Moody, I naturally speak 

 on a subject suggested to me by the life of Mr. 

 Moody and by the aims sought for through the es 

 tablishment of the summer school. 



In such a school a school which is to equip 

 young men to do good in the world to show both 

 the desire for the rule of righteousness and the prac 

 tical power to give actual effect to that desire it 

 seems to me there are two texts specially worthy of 

 emphasis : One is, "Be ye doers of the word and not 

 hearers only"; and the other is, "Not slothful in 

 business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." A re 

 public of freemen is pre-eminently a community in 

 which there is need for the actual exercise and prac 

 tical application of both the milder and the stronger 

 virtues. Every good quality every virtue and every 

 grace has its place and is of use in the great scheme 

 of creation; but it is of course a mere truism to say 

 that at certain times and in certain places there is 

 pre-eminent need for a given set of virtues. In our 

 own country, with its many-sided, hurrying, prac 

 tical life, the place for cloistered virtue is far smaller 

 than is the place for that essential manliness which, 

 without losing its fine and lofty side, can yet hold its 

 own in the rough struggle with the forces of the 

 world round about us. It would be a very bad thing 

 for this country if it happened that the men of right- 



