Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew Volume 2; Banquet and dinner speeches - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... present, and does his best according to his lights in the work of to-day, with little thought of yesterday or of to-morrow, and gives his whole mind and strength to making better what comes his way to do, will be a power for progress and light in his time, and if the field is large enough, will win that consideration from the future which is fame. Governor Odell lives up to this idea. One of our Governors, a successful man of business but who had given little attention to public affairs, said to me when I was spending the day with him at the Executive Mansion at the close of the session, "Chauncey, you do a great deal of thinking on many subjects, while I have given my time wholly to one. I wonder if it affects you as it does me. These bills are dumped in here by the Legislature by the bushel. To try and understand them makes my old headpiece swim, and stirs me up otherwise. The harder I try to think the more I feel as if I were on the ocean in a heavy sea, and I am a mighty poor sailor." Now, in doing his duty in his great office, Governor Odell neither loses his dinner nor his head. He has the confidence of the State and the attention of the country. If, as we hope, that attention shall in the future, for he is a young man, materialize into a call of the great constituency for a President, it will be seconded enthusiastically by the Empire State. DINNER OF YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE CLASS SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE YOUNG MENS BIBLE CLASS OF THE FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 8, I9O3. Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to meet you here to-night. Yours is the most famous and the most talked about of Bible classes.1 There have been classes for the study of the Bible since the publication of the book of Genesis. I have no doubt t...

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