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rises and sets all of our great material progress, all 

 the multiplication of the physical agencies which 

 tend for our comfort and enjoyment, will go for 

 naught and our civilization will become a brutal 

 sham and mockery. If we are to do as I believe we 

 shall and will do, if we are to advance in broad hu 

 manity, in kindliness, in the spirit of brotherhood, 

 exactly as we advance in our conquest over the hid 

 den forces of nature, it must be by developing 

 strength in virtue and virtue in strength, by breed 

 ing and training men who shall be both good and 

 strong, both gentle and valiant men who scorn 

 wrongdoing, and who at the same time have both 

 the courage and the strength to strive mightily for 

 the right. Wesley accomplished so much for man 

 kind because he refused to leave the stronger, man 

 lier qualities to be availed of only in the interest of 

 evil. The Church he founded has through its career 

 been a Church for the poor as well as for the rich 

 and has known no distinction of persons. It has 

 been a Church whose members, if true to the teach 

 ings of its founder, have sought for no greater 

 privilege than to spend and be spent in the interest 

 of the higher life, who have prided themselves, not 

 on shirking rough duty, but on undertaking it and 

 carrying it to a successful conclusion. 



I come here to-night to greet you and to pay my 

 tribute to your past because you have deserved well 

 of mankind, because you have striven with strength 

 and courage to bring nearer the day when peace and 

 justice shall obtain among the peoples of the earth. 



