MR ROOSEVELT, MISSIONARY.
A call to preach the Gospel in
the Far East.
A conference of foreign missions at Philadelphia has decided to ask Mr Roosevelt, when his Presidential term expires, to preach the gospel of Christ in the Far East.
The opinion was enthusiastically expressed that he would be worth all the missionaries in the United States put together. The suggestion is interesting, for the Republic will find the problem what to do with the strenuous President when he leaves the White House a hard one to solve.
Hitherto the only practical proposal submitted is that he should become President of Harvard University. It is not likely that a missionary society or any other agency will ever induce Theodore Roosevelt to be an exile from what Americans delight to call “ God’s own country.” No doubt he would make a great Archbishop. He could easily persuade the united Christian Churches to endorse such an appointment for the rest of his natural life, and no human being in either hemisphere would feel more at home in a cathedral pulpit proclaiming the presence of “ that power notour selveswithin ourselves which makes for righteousness.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 12 March 1907, Page 3
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191MR ROOSEVELT, MISSIONARY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 12 March 1907, Page 3
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