Excerpt from Presidential Addresses and State Papers, Vol. 7: November 15, 1907, to November 26, 1908 You turn out men and women into many dif ferent professions. Of course a peculiar importance attaches to those who in after life go into. The min istry. A minister needs to remember, what each one of us here needs to remember - but he needs to remember it more than any one else - the truth of the Biblical saying that by your fruits shall men know you. A minister needs to feel that it is in cumbent upon him not merely to preach a high and yet a sane morality, but to see that his life bears out his preaching in every minute detail. His posi tion is one of peculiar leadership, and therefore a peculiar weight of obligation attaches to it. Noth ing can be more important for any people, or any race, than to have those members of that people or race who follow the profession of the ministry so conduct themselves as to be a source of inspira tion to their own flocks, and. At the same time to Win from the outside world a respect and esteem the effects of which will be felt not only by them but by all their people. Important though it is that there should be a high standard of morality, a high standard of good citizenship among persons of every profession, it is most of all impor tant that such should be the case among those who are to teach their fellows in the things of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.