And State Papers 227 



the work done by those who founded this move 

 ment, and of course by all those who have taken 

 part in similar movements, in all movements for 

 good, in every movement for social betterment, for 

 civic betterment, in every movement to make men 

 decent and manly and strong if it had not been for 

 the work done by them, if they had sat supine and 

 thought things would make themselves better, things 

 would have become steadily worse. We see all 

 around us people who say, "Oh, well, things will 

 come out all right." So they will; but not because 

 there are men who are content to say that they will 

 come out all right; but because there is a sufficient 

 number of earnest men with the root of righteous 

 ness in them who are bound to do what will make 

 them come out right. 



The remarkable concentration of our lives during 

 the last half century has rendered it possible for any 

 thing that is evil to manifest itself more strongly 

 than ever before, and therefore made it necessary 

 for us to see that the good has a corresponding de 

 velopment. A hundred years ago there was no such 

 need for the Young Men's Christian Associations, 

 for the invaluable Young Women's Christian Asso 

 ciations. Life was simpler. The temptation would 

 come surely to every man, but it would not come so 

 frequently and in so intense a form. As the forces 

 of evil manifested themselves in stronger and 

 stronger form they had to be met, if they were to 

 be successfully grappled with, by organized effort, 

 by the effort of the many, which must always be 



