Address at St. Paul's Church

; LADlES AND ME KE • PLEASED BUT SOMEWHAT AWE I PRECEDE.-D -m IN ADDRESSING THIS DISTINGUJS ....... BY WAY OF CL I WOULD LIKE THAT I HAVEN'T COME PREPARED TO PREACH A MAKE ANY B18TORIC ORATION. co G BEGINNlNG, MAKE SERMON, OR rYE COME TO XPRESS MY PBRSONAL TUL TIONS ON YOU REMARKS CONCERNING THE ROLE OF FAITH AND THE ROLE OF - OF THE MARBLE C_j&QIAfE CHURCH, EVER BEARD • THERE' P TICUL R ONE LITTLE STORY I READ THAT MAD PRES ION UPON ME AT THE TIME. PARABLE REVo PEALE TOLD OF THE MAN FOR IT' A THE WHO, BEING HARD PRESSED MONEY, PRAYED AND ASKED THE LORD TO GIVE HIM SOME. THE LORD IN HIS KlNDLJNESS HEARD THE PRAYER COMING UP FROM EARTH AND CALLED ONE OF HIS ANGELS AND SAID, "THE PIDOR FELLOW NEEDS MONEY. LEND HIM SOME. tt THE ANGEL WAS AWAY FOR SOME TIME. RETURNED HE SAID, "LORD, WHEN BE I HAVE LOOKED THROUGH THE VAULTS OF HE VEN AND CAN FIND NO ME J MOTH NOR RUST VE ONLY THAT WHICH NEITHER 0 EY. N IN DOTH CO RUPT A D WHER BUT WHR..E TAL. N R M> TBIEVl£ HAVE NO MONEY WE HAVE SOME E DOWN TO HIM?" TB TREASURE '" ... THE UNITED STATES I HAVE UANTITIES VJNG RELATIVELY LARGE AMOUNTS OF IT UNDER LOCK AND TO \if 0 ACCUSTOMED TO HANDLING MONEY IN HUGH B CO SHALL WE SEND SOME OF UL JDEAS AND INSIGHTS. R DO NOT BREAK THROUGH ','''' J" .. \ _ ._,.... .c .;1 • OF THE OCCASIONAL VISITORS WHO ARE CONDUCTED ON TOURS OF THE BU WASHINGTON WHERE ALL UNITED THE ONE HE VEST THAT THEY AU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING IN TATES CURRENCY IS PRINTED. MAKE, M RE THAN ANY lS THAT THEY BE PERMITTED THE P IVD...EGE 0 OTHER, HOLDING ONE MD.,LIO DOLLARA IN THEIR HANDS JUST ONCE. WHEN TIME , TB LOCKED IN ONE OF THE TREASURY VAULTS WITH LV THE D..LIO IF IT AROUND TH E, I DON'T BUILD UP ITT R D OF THAT • WIlH, NATURALLY, NEVER GRANTED. GINE THEY WOULD BE HAPPY LONG, THEIR OULD EXPERD!NCE A MOST SUDDEN AND PPOlNTMENT. ULD BE ENCOUNTERED. UDn ND WOULD HAVE IT, • SATAN HIMSELF G EETED BUT A SBORT DIlTANCE WHEN TH THB MOST IDEAL, MOST MA NIGICENT GOLD COURSE CONCEIVED IN ROLLING GREEN FAmWAYS STHETe INTO T D TANCE. WAS THE PLACE OF ITo I WOULDN"T WANT TO LEAVE THE IMPRESSION, HOWEVER, THAT THERE 18 ANY SUBSTANTIAL SUIAE OF MONEY LYING IDLB IN TO VJlULTI 0 r TIlE TRBASURYo NOT THE CASE. ON THE MOVB. R OF ACTUALLY THAT JS WHAT CURRENCY AND COIN THER lS, IS CONTINUALLY MONEY COMFB IN TO THE ...... TREASURY AS A ULT OF TAX COLLECTIONS. MONEY GOES OUT AS THE RESULT AYMENlB FOR aoVERNMETN EXPENDITURES. SOILEl> AND TORN ! FIT F R OmCULA TDN COMES IN TO THE CURRENCY NO LON TR ABURY AND BY THE TO CURRENCY GOES OUT D DAILY. MO M THE ... LIFE CONSUME B IT THE 0 VIL. IT BRINCE THE NECESSITIES OF FTIE JNDUST IAL, CIIMERCIAL Y IN THE TREASURY''S VAULTS OF WHICH I VMS IN II NEITHER rOUR POCKETS, YET, THROUGH BIBLICAL MISQUOTATION MONEY AC OIRED A BE s ARYl) A VITAL PART MALLE GOOD NEe OIL, MINES, FORE TS AND FACTORIES TO THE IT FOR 0 Y UTATION IT IN 0 WA D ERV • WE HEAR IT m, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, THAT MONEY 18 THE ROOT OF CTUALLY, TUBS A MlSQUOTA ION. ALL EVIL. ID W NOT THAT MONEY tfTHE LOVE OF MONEY ................... ":, THE ROOT OF WHAT ST. PAUL THE RBOT OF ALI.,EVIL, " ALlA£Vn.. BUT THAT j(' TO MENTION ONE OF THE MUNBER OF C I \voULDL ,-UOTATION lS CAUSING. FLO IDA E ciosn... G A ROLL DU Or'APER ES COMING / !NO THJS PAST YEAR AND A HANDERCHIEF. TIns / ! WAS ARTBRIT STORY. FIVE Fa EABS SHE HAD SUFFERED FROM ACUTE / BE HAS RE ·EIVED TREATMENTS FROM A NUMBBR OF • / THEN IN JANUARY NTS BAD NO EFFECT. DOCTOBI BUT THE 'tREAT / / ! BE MET A ELF TYL D tt VlSOR AND HEALER" WHO SOON CON- VlNCED HER FOR A RAlNY DAY, AND ANOTHER TWENTY -SEVE SUCCEEDED IN BORRO HER HOME. HUNDRED SBE ING ON THE STRENGTH OF A lENT ACCORDING T THE AGE OLD SWINDLE o OR MULA. ETTE BAPP REMEC NOT ONe ITBE UT A DOZEN T GOOD NOR EVD..t. TO DIFFERENT P OPLE IT REPRESENTS DIF BRENT THIN • • ,.DU.liiu.,.T 1'00. ON Tim ONE' M NEYCAN TABLE, WARM CLOTBJNG FOR ON H AD. U ED BY THE VIL, t BACK, N Y MAGNIFIES E EVn... PBSESSION OF THE RIGHTEOUS JS BECOMES AN IN T INSTRUMENT CABLE 0 IT' DOING INFINITE GOOD. NOT THE INIC THAT GIVES UNITED STATE P OMJSE BEHIND THE MO GOVERNMENT, BACKED THE PAPE P EY, METAL, NOT THE PAPER, NOT THE CURRENCY ITS VALUE. THE PROMlS OF THE UNITED STATES Y GOLD AND n..VER, IT GIVE THE BOLDER OF ES L TO STATE THAT THE TREA- E FULL OF PAPER PROMlSESo D IN BING o JNGPAUA LE ...".....,....,vEVE HE 0 . 00 G B PRO- BS AL R, .. _--- THE .... P. THE UNIT D S ATKS THft U HAVE TAKEN THE VALU E PACKED PA E UMBE CU • ACE THEREOF. MlSE THE VALUE STIPULATED ON T IT WOOLD NOT BE FAR FROM: WRONG URY VAULTS IT'S THE T THE TRE- R H T OSERIO 8 LY. G GJ: F THE UNITES SlATES WHOM ARB • FRANC RESIDENT LINCOLN APPOINTED, EARNED THE APPELLATIO OF A E TALLED PECIALLY FO HIM IN THE T EASURY BUILDING. STORY LEADING UP TO THIS IS WORTH REPEATING. EEN ACCUSTOMED TO HAD NOT NIGHT E WAS STILL WJDE AWAKE. , MIND P TIlE REALIZ TIO BURRJEDL THE GEN. SPINNER LEEPJNG IN THE TREASURY UNTIL THE GENERAL BAD AFTER THAT NIGHT. VlN VAULTS LIFE, D Y AND NIGHT SLEEPING BY THEM ON A COT IN- WITH B TURNIG TH RETIRED EARLY BUT AT FITFULLY TOSSING AND BTURBED, BE COULD NOT RELAX. SUDDENLY STRUCK. SOMKTBIN WAS WRONG AT TIlE TREASURY. DRESSED AND DASBED BREATHLESSLY THROUGH DARDNBD STREBTS, BB ARRIVED AT THE TREASURY TO BE MET BY BE WATCHMAN WHO lNFORMED HIM THAT OF THE VAUL1S BAD BEEN FOUND OPEN. BEEN DONE. ONE OF THE DOORS LUCBILY, NO DAMAGB BAD THE PAPER PROMlSES WERE INTACT. B T BEGlNNING THE II FOLLOWING NIGHT AND CONTINUING TILL THE DAY HE PINNER E DlED, GENERAL ONNALLY MADE THE ROUND3 OF ALL VAULTS BEFORE RETIRING AND THEN RETmED TO A COT BESlDE THEM. HAPPILY FOR ME, MY PRESENT DUTIES DO ME TO SPEND MY EVENINGS IN WASBlNGTON T GUARDING REQUIRE THE VAULTS. DOUBLE COMBINATION LOCKS, TIME CLOCKS, ELECTRIC EYES, HIDDBN MICROPHONES, SIGNaL LIOB'I8, AND THE EVER WATCHFUL BYES OF THE VIOD.aANT SECRET SERVICE GENTS GUARD THE VULTS WELL. F MONEY IN TERM'S • -THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, 0 PEOPLE OF THE UNITED ST TEa i'"rI!IftI_ PAPER PROMISES OF MORE ACCURATELY OF TH COLLECTIVELY, I.. . ES THAT A Eft PRO , CA RNYL ;a_ ...... UY PE CE, CO TENTME _T , NOT TO MiilIJaS' GO· .. ,"" ...... HO T L • YE ROMlB, ARE IT RES A GO DD ED, A NO 1\1 RB HAN T VAUL DE 0 INTBE LITTL T, o , OF LI o OF OTHBR ITHIN BIN T vee E PAPER PROMISES T , IN BEAVEN THEA URER OF D HOU T, MA T, E T OF MAN. TORED. FAITH, EXlSTING HOPE AND".I IMPLE PRICE OF A • lS THAT IT ALL TO U, E BAV ADV • L uDEAR LO ITlS , N TLE ALO E SO LDlE R TTE • THE W. YFARER D TO IIBAVEN VOle U WHICH ON MORE TATIONBD AT AN LAC KNESS OF C LO t ., ¥ U P T T T ·TOTA - I V ULTS OF HEAVE CAN B INO A • NDANYTBINQ PL AS ULL A'" -LIM qllfaD IN HUMBLE CAUSE OTT ABU TO E TEa LL TIME, T LE TS IONS GOD HAS BESTOWED UPON US. WlTSOUR CREATOR, AND POSS E OUR T TW IT RE um OT TO GAIN SELF THE CO CIENTJS TR OUR , • • SIONS IT REQUIRES OR POLITICAL LEADERS, SEEK OUT AND MAKE UTION WE ALONE CAN MAKE. S HEROIC SPIRIT OF CRIFICE. AND WORKED TOGETHER . W STRO PRPS G. FOR+:.TH .. IN , FAIT FOR PERSONAL GLORY E BETTERMENT OF . ND IN THE BECAUSE OUR FOREFATHERS SUBORDINATED THEIR WORLDLY DESm BUn.,T • CREATIVE ARTlSTS, au INESSMEN, , AMERICA JS FOUNDED IN PRAYE COUNTRY G TALESNT, OUR POSS H ENDS BUT TO HELP MANKIND, THAT WE, AS TBJNKE RESEARCH , • ,PAITB (b\YE AMERICA A FARMS AND THRIVING MANKIND, OUR DRRIBI, CITIES, THAT RAlSED OM THIRTEEN STRUGGLING COLONIES TO H BECOME THE L , - lNT OF LESS PAC TWOC IE DU IN o OF G OWTH, MANY BITTER FOUGHT. c PPB LY T 188 E FOR B , TO FTBET I TIME DEFENDING THE RIGHT 0 ND A GOOD PORTION N A LIVING. WOMEN TO E TH ON TIlE FLOOR OF CONGRBSS BODY, lBEWBERE OF I BEJNG LO G DEMPTIO y OF OMEN' AUTHOR WRIT EIGHTY 0 . RIATE, E AND IMMORAL. IN THEm CHARACTER. " E THAN VIRTUOUS AND OTHER BASED ON TBJ)ROUGH L DE AND , IS THAT IMPLE TRUT THE FACTS. WE MODEST, '\ \ " ARE AS AS THEa LLI A ......... - ElliE AND AS DeBE ENT, ,/' AN R AS THE DE VIRTUOUS, AS MODEST, AS ¥SlED .., PAUD ,/ , ATBY, "COULD THEIR /1 - OMMUBITY OF WHICH WE .I \ • AND LADYLIKE IN L TORRENT OF FOR THE <J.}/ CR RADUCElW BUT VJSIT THE HE OMEN IR MPLONT; T C UL I - IF DEPRIVED /THE / POSIT , NS ULD HAVE ., lENDS OR THE WORLD, WE THEM CELY ANY OTHER I RBSOURSE FQR THE SUPPORT OF THEMSELVES AND I MQ9T 0 - " F " E S IBS THAN THAT END bLD BE PUT AT ONCE AND roREVER TO THE DJ:T.RACTION OF WOMEN WHO EA N THEm BREAD Y BARD LABO IN THE .A8URY '7 E ART . AXAMPL, THlB TIME FROM A LETTER OTHE LET US TAKE CABINET OFFICER TO ITTBN IN 1886 BY A MY PART, .IS EVERY DIJPOSlTION 0 CABJNBT OFFICER, " CBNGRESSMAN 0 DO ANYTHING FOR THE LADY IN " WROTE THE UESTION CE TTO WORK IN THE ROOMS OJ' . OBJECTION TO THE EMPLO OF SUCH DUTIES AS THE VCR o ¥IOUS IMPROPRJE WALLS OF A p" I SAVE NO P TENT OFFICE. 'Ii 1\ El(TOF ARE CO . ' MALES ••••• ETENT TO D IN THE MIXIN BLIC OFFICE THAT IN THE PERFORMANCE CHAR1IE, OF THE SED ruT THERE IS WITHIN THE l>tt DBTERMINED TO ARREST it. THE i PRACTIVJ£,. ' fCTBRY THE I , " THA.T WOMEN HAVE WON TT MAKE THEM EQUAL IN TIlE EYES OF THE GOVERNMENT AND IN THE BYES OF THE , LAW JS UNDENIABLY A VICTORY OF CHRlBTIAN PRlNCIPLE, FOR, ACCORD ... ING TO CBRlSTIAN \ • • j,??IJB TEACHING, THEY BAVE AL WJ."'"'",,""-Uo.1...j!L=-=:' ,... ..sf: .I""' .. ",¥ __ <&. TRUGGLE FOR THE TRIUMPH OF CHRJSTIAN PRlNCIPL I JS A CONTINUING OMBo THE PAST THE GREATEST NEED AS IN CONTINUES TO BE TO GET MEN AND WOMEN TO APPLY THEIR CHRIJTIAN TEACHINGSo THE SUNDAY CREDIT. IT JS EASY TO BE A CHRlSTIAN IN eHU eli. CBRlSTIAN TO MY WAY OF THlNKING, DESERVES LITTLE BUT IT 18 THE MEN AND WOMEN WITH eRR INDELIBLY WOVEN INTO THE STUFF OF THEIR LIPES, WHO LIVE CBRJJTJANITY FROM ..._. MONDAY THROUGH UNOSTENTATIONSLY PRACTDlE CBRlSTIAN MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES AT TS TEACBJNCE SATURDAY, RmCIPLES EVERY W-"4I.I'" HOME, AT WORK: AND AT PLAY THESE MEN AND WOMEN DESERVE THE GREATEST PRA THEM LIVES THE WHO SALVATION, THE FUTURE OF OUR E. -- .. - IN COR"l.d ; IN CONCLUSION, I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS 1 IEFLY MY ..,... . I ' .- I ! mEA OF CBRIJTIANITYo CBRlSTIANITY 18 A BUOGAN F ITIL THE LITTLE CBRJSTIANS ARE CONTINUALLY THANXS GOD FOR PLEASURES THEY HAVE RECEIVED, ARE CONTlNUALLY TLY LOOKING Fa THEm SUCCESSES, ARE CONST. ONE THEY A'YS THINKING IN MEET, ARE CALLING VIRTUE IN VERY ITIVE MANNER, AND ABOVE ALL, ARE CHEERFULo A CBRJSTIAN TAKES DISAPPOINTMENTS AND LOSSES IN HIS STRIDE, AND zxarsns A CHARACTERJSTIC COUNTENANCE OF BPTlMlSM, CHRJSTIAN J3 A HAPPY SECURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUL, WORKlNG IN PARTNERSHIP WItH GOD, POWER. THANK A ..... YOU I HIS ESS D OF TREMENDOU:a..