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need of the nation today is men with faith strong enough to 

 last a life-time; with a vision clear enough to see ultimate 

 victory; with strength great enough to enable them to reach 

 the goal; with a determination, like St. Paul, to finish the 

 course. The world is today in great need of Calebs and 

 Joshuas. It is remembered that Caleb and Joshua were the 

 only ones of the twelve spies sent to investigate the Promised 

 Land who favored a " forward march." Ten spies showed 

 little faith and the Children of Israel remained in the Wilder- 

 ness, and everyone familiar with the story knows the infinite 

 loss that resulted from the lack of faith. A nation can make 

 great progress only when the aggregate faith of its people is 

 great. What is the aggregate faith of Rural America? 

 Under great leadership the sum of this faith can be increased. 

 May the present generation witness this consummation ! 



An eighth essential of leadership is virility. The great 

 undertaking in the country is to win the youth of Rural 

 America, and the youth of Rural America are never won by 

 the " ladylike and innocuous saint." They even prefer the 

 " courageous sinner." " Youth can be won by setting free 

 the virile and chivalrous spirit of youth " and that can be done 

 only by the leader whose life is blessed with virility. Youth 

 are hero worshipers and the heroes that command their high- 

 est admiration are those that have achieved distinction in the 

 physical realm. And this is natural, since during the first 

 third of man's three score and ten years the activities of the 

 body dominate the life. The animal is much in evidence, and 

 the great aim of leadership is that the animal may develop 

 into a highly civilized animal. The one incident that made 

 " Quo Vadis " one of the most popular books of its generation 

 was the wonderful scene in the arena, representing the Lygian 

 giant catching by the horns the hugh German aurochs on 

 whose back is bound his queen, and calling into service the 

 almost superhuman strength of his wonderful body, breaking 

 the neck of the animal. The experts of the baseball diamond 

 and the stars of the gridiron have the youth of America at 

 their feet. A study of leaders from Moses down to the present 



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