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we demand it not as entitling the possessor to 

 praise; but as warranting the heartiest condemna- 

 tion possible if he lacks it. Surely in every move- 

 ment for the betterment of our life, our life social 

 in the truest and deepest sense, our life political, we 

 have a special right to ask not merely support but 

 leadership from those of the Church. We ask that 

 you here to whom much has been given will re- 

 member that from you rightly much will be ex- 

 pected in return. For all of us here the lines have 

 been cast in pleasant places. Each of us has been 

 given one talent, or five, or ten talents, and each of 

 us is in honor bound to use that talent or those 

 talents aright, and to show at the end that he is 

 entitled to the praise of having done well as a faith- 

 ful servant. 



I greet you this afternoon, and am glad to see 

 you here, and I trust and believe that after this 

 service every one of us will go home feeling that 

 he or she has been warranted in coming here by 

 the way in which he or she, after going home, takes 

 up with fresh heart, with fresh courage, and with 

 fresh and higher purpose the burden of life as that 

 burden has been given to him or to her to carry. 



AT THE CENTENNIAL EXERCISES IN THE 



N. Y. AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 



WASHINGTON, D. C, NOV. 16, 1903 



Mr. Justice: 



Let me first express the appreciation that all of 

 us feel to Professor McMaster for his exceedingly 



