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of a man's character -the qualities, Colonel McCook, 

 which you and those like you showed when as boys, 

 as young men, they fought to a finish the great 

 Civil War. 



So much for the manliness, so much for the 

 strength, so much for the courage developed by 

 your profession, all of which you show, and have 

 to show, or you could not succeed in doing the work 

 you are doing as your life work. These qualities 

 are all-important, but they are not all-sufficient. It 

 is necessary absolutely to have them. No nation 

 can rise to greatness without them; but by them 

 alone no nation will ever become great. Reading 

 through the pages of history you come upon nation 

 after nation in which there has been a high average 

 of individual strength, bravery, and hardihood, and 

 yet in which there has been nothing approaching 

 to national greatness, because those qualities were 

 not supplemented by others just as necessary. With 

 the courage, with the hardihood, with the strength, 

 must come the power of self-restraint, the power 

 of self-mastery, the capacity to work for and with 

 others as well as for one's self, the power of giving 

 to others the love which each of us must bear for 

 his neighbor, if we are to make our civilization really 

 great. And these are the qualities which are fos 

 tered and developed, which are given full play, by 

 institutions such as the Young Men's Christian As 

 sociation. 



The other day in a little Lutheran church at 

 Sioux Falls I listened to a most interesting and most 



