A writer in the London _Mail_ has this to say concerning Theodore
Roosevelt while in Egypt:
At Cairo he was asked to leave out his reference to the murder
of the Prime Minister. “No,” he answered, “that is just what
I want to say. If you do not care about it let us call the
engagement off.”
There spoke the essential Roosevelt, not the politician, but the
preacher. His object in speaking is to do good. To give advice,
to stiffen healthy instincts, to strengthen public opinion
against meanness and cruelty, to induce every man and every
woman to make the best of themselves--those are the essential
Roosevelt aims. His style smacks more of the pulpit than the
platform.... “If I had been a Methodist,” he once declared, “I
should have applied for a license as a lay preacher.” Since then
he has obtained his license to preach--but from a greater body
than the Methodist Conference. He is preacher-in-general to the
whole civilized world.
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