MR. ROOSEVELT AND METHODISTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 12

MR. ROOSEVELT AND METHODISTS.

President Roosevelt delivered a characteristically vigorous address in Washington to the General Conference, of tho Methodist Episcopal Church. After drawing a, picture of the fiery and restless Methodism which through its circuit-riders and pioneer preachers had kept paco with the westward movement of civilisation, Mr. Roosevelt said: "It is. your task to do tho work of the Lord on, the farm and in the mino, in the count-ing-room. and the factory, in tho car-shops and beside the blasting-furnaces, just as it was the task of your spiritual forbears to wrestle with tho souls of the men and women who dwelt on. tho stump-dotted clearings in the wilderness. : In. tho last.analyses, national greatuoss/r happiness, success, depend on tho 'character, ,oft.tne man and Iwoman.' > Most of all -we need.thb essential qualities , that in ; their sum make up tho good man and tho good woman; most of all wo need that fine and healthy family' life, the lack of which makes any seeming material prosperity but a glittering sham'. If the avorago man is brave, hardworking, and clean-living; if tho average woman has the qualities which make a good wife andmother; if each has self-respect and realises that the greatest thing in life is the chance to do sorvice —why, then,.the future of the iation is sccuro." . ■