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dared to point a finger at Theodore Roosevelt and say that in any re¬ 
spect his character ever fell below the level of the highest and most 
courageous type of Christian manhood that our country has to-day. 
I have been in sixteen states this winter lecturing on my trip across 
Central Africa where the Roosevelt party has hunted. I visited 120 
towns and cities from Boston to Denver and from Philadelphia to 
Duluth and in not one place did I find the slightest opposition to Mr. 
Roosevelt. In the middle west nearly every man I met had already in 
his mind nominated and elected him for president in 1912. During my 
winter work there was just one discordant note. It was a letter I re¬ 
ceived from 53 Wall Street, New York City, and it said in effect: “ You 
had no business to speak so flatteringly in a public lecture about 
Theodore Roosevelt, a discarded politician.” This letter is sufficiently 
answered by the events of the last two months. At Khartoum the 
Roosevelt party was received by the English government with the 
greatest and most distinguished honor. It was noticeable that the 
Sirdar of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wyngate, took Mr. Roosevelt first 
to the Gordon tree named after the famous Chinese Gordon whose 
lamentable death at Khartoum is part of the thrilling history of Egypt. 
The ex-president visited the battlefield of Omdurman and doubtless, in 
an honorable way, envied Lord Kitchener the brilliant glory of that 
famous victory. He doubtless showed the English officers just how he 
would have posted the Rough Riders at the fatal Donga where the 
lancers fell. The Sirdar visited, with the ex-president, the battlefield 
where he himself destroyed the power of the Mahdi. The Gordon 
College at Khartoum and the Missionary station not far away were 
visited. The missionaries of all denominations in Africa received high 
praise and great encouragement from the man who himself is earnestly 
religious. 
One of the admirable traits in Mr. Roosevelt’s character is his deep 
and abiding faith in revealed religion. He laid the foundation stone 
for a missionary building at Kijabe in the Rift Valley at the American- 
African Inland Mission. The Rev. Dr. Hurlburt and his wife did the 
hospitable honors and the ex-president in making a speech to the Amer¬ 
ican missionaries (who by the way are non-denominational), gave it 
as his opinion that there was no better, safer or more practical work 
being done in the uplift of the natives than that done by missionaries. 
While his enthusiasm was great for religious work it did not end there, 
