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Show SERMON BY PRESIDENT TAFT Draws Lesson From Text That "He Who Conquoreth Himself IsGreater Than He Who Taketh a City." Fresno, Cal. President Tnft was greeted by practically the entire population pop-ulation of tho city and surrounding country upon his nrrlvnl hero on Sunday, and after a hort automobllo trip through tho business section, addressed a gathering of many thousands thou-sands In the' court house square. The president's speech was In renllty another Sunday sermon, tho third ho hns preached slnco his trlp began. His text, quoted from memory, was "That ho who conqueroth himself him-self Is greater than he who tnkoth a city," and from it drow tho lesson that popular government, must bo a failure unless it Is based upon sound common sonso and tho self-restraint that goes to mnko tho good loser. Ho drow an analogy between tho American pcoplo In this respect and those peoples who, in tholr nttempt nt solf-govornmcnt, follow an election elec-tion with a revolutldn. On his way hero President Toft stopped at Merced for three hours and attended morning service at tho Presbyterian church. |