Show PRESIDENT IN INI I CHURCH PULPIT I I Sermon on the Necessity of Clean Cle n Living wing for or Welfare of the Nation I I ABHORS B TELLING UNTRUTHS DOERS DO RS OF THE WORD THE TRUE FOLLOWERS FOLLOW ERS Oyster Bay Ba Sept S SIn In an address at the bicentenary celebration of the Christ Episcopal church here today President Roosevelt talked of the ne necessity necessity necessity of religion and clean living for forthe forthe forthe the welfare of the nation I cannot understand und nd any American citizen he said paid who has the faint faintest faIntest faintest est feeling of patriotism and devotion to his country failing to appreciate the essential need of religion In Ints its ts broadest sense to the welfare of this I II country If IS I it were not for the fact that in our villages and towns t as they have grown up the th churches have grown up in n them and in the churches men whose work is not for the things of the bOdy but for fo the welfare of th the soul it would not be the nation that it is because the nation would riot be a fit abode for civilized man Mission of th to Church He said that our material foundation of wealth was but a base for the spir spiritual spiritual HURl growth of the nation and white while the material mat rial ought not to be disregard disregarded ti tied ed its real object ought not to be lost lol sight of The mission of the church was not to work in the interests of one 1 sect but hut for humanity as a whole I II I wish to emphasize the vital im lu importance importance to this nation patio a of our our people j being taught to realize reaUze that Chris Christianity Christianity manifests Itself in the conduct of its most humble professor I Here the president read re d several verses from the Bible to point out o t that not the hearers but the doers of f the th word were the true followers of Christ ChristOn ChristOn ChristOn On the subject of riches the president president president dent said 0 w Teddy on Truth There is nothing I abhor more more lore than Iran the t he telling g of an untruth whether un unconventional unconventional unconventional conventional untruth or 01 not and 3 I would on no occasion be understood as a affecting to deprecate material well being To tell men to disregard riches rich s entirely is to preach to them a doctrine doctrin which it is impossible for them to live up to but which the preacher knows knous perfectly well they the r will not trot try to live lie up to But put riches below the things of the soul Give to the body what the body is entitled to The multimillion multimillionaire ion aire is not a harm hamn but a good to the community if he ho appreciates that he Is i ionly only a trustee for that great wealth that he is a trustee for the cause of o f The president emphasized the naces necessity sity of o every man being thoroughly thoro as a basis for spiritual life He concluded ed with the sentiment that the only life really worth living HYing was one that made others better be because because because cause it had been lived u |