Model Speeches for Practise eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 103 pages of information about Model Speeches for Practise.

Model Speeches for Practise eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 103 pages of information about Model Speeches for Practise.

It is for you to prove the falseness of this charge.  It is for you to show by your life and utterances that you believe in the men who are working with you and about you.  There will probably be times when this is a hard task.  If you have studied history or literature or science aright, some things which look large to other people will look small to you.  You will frequently be called upon to give the unwelcome advice that a desired end can not be reached by a short cut; and this may cause some of your enthusiastic friends to lose confidence in your leadership.  There are always times when a man who is clear-headed is reproached with being hard-hearted.  But if you yourselves keep your faith in your fellow men, these things, tho they be momentary hindrances, will in the long run make for your power of Christian leadership.

There was a time, not so very long ago, when the people distrusted the guidance of scientific men in things material.  They believed that they could do their business best without advice of the theorists.  When it came to the conduct of business, scientific men and practical men eyed each other with mutual distrust.  As long as the scientific men remained mere critics this distrust remained.  When they came to take up the practical problems of applied mechanics and physics and solve them positively in a large way, they became the trusted leaders of modern material development.

It is for you to deal with the profounder problems of human life in the same way.  It is for you to prove your right to take the lead in the political and social and spiritual development of the country, as well as in its mechanical and material development.  To do this you must take hold of these social problems with the same positive faith with which your fathers took hold of the problems of applied science.  To the man who believes in his fellow men, who has faith in his country, and in whom the love of God whom he hath not seen is but an outgrowth of a love for his fellow men whom he hath seen, the opening years of the twentieth century are years of unrivaled promise.  We already know that a man can learn to love God by loving his fellow men.  Equally true we shall find it that a man learns to believe in God by believing in his fellow men.

FOOTNOTE: 

[6] The concluding part of a baccalaureate address to the graduating class of Yale University, June 27, 1909.

WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN[7]

BY MARTIN W. LITTLETON

The strongest thing about the character of the two greatest men in American history is the fact that they did not surrender to the passion of the time.  Washington withstood the French radicalism of Jefferson and the British conservatism of Hamilton.  He invited each of them into his cabinet; he refused to allow either of them to dictate his policy.  His enemies could not terrify him by assault; his friends could not deceive him with flattery.  In this respect he resembled in marked degree the splendid character of Lincoln.

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