New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1915, Page 9

ATIONAL GAS LIGHTING WEEK -SEPTEMBER 27--OCTOBER 2 | N every city of the United States where gas is used the week beginning Sept.27th will be known as National GasLighting Week.Thisisa country- wide movement to testify to the merits of modern gas lighting. We invite you to call at our showroom during the week and see the many artistic lighting fixtures displayed and to familiarize yourself with the many beautiful effects that can be obtained from modern gas lighting. ew Britain Gas Light Co. Chnstzan Spirit Needed For Settlement of Strike Wamen F. Cook Speaks on Situation in New Britain- ' Raps Ofiensnve “Movies” and Recommends Play- ; . 'house for Children. A sermon thnt has been anticipat- ed for some time by the members of the Trinity & Methodist Episcopal church was delivered at the regular . morning service by the pastor,” Rev.' . Warren F. Cook, vesterday. . Mr., Cook’s address was timely as it touched on the labor conditions now ¥ existing in this city. Because of his unfamiliarity with the local sitmation, . he did not go into the subject at REV.. WARKEN F. COOK. gth but said no settlement of dif- erences betwéen capital and labor could be hoped for until both sides considered their grievances from a Christian standpoint, Mr: Cook also took occasion to rap tion pictures, or those that might e termed offensive. His remarks re- o gardmg the “‘movies” were profacoal by a recommendation' for ‘the estab- | i lisiment of picture houses for child- “ren' omnly. From some pictures now L shoywr, he said, ¢hildren who attend - their parents receive “impres-; Mons and snocks that'may have in- ’ jurious lasting ‘effects’ He also said “many of the pictures dn - playhouses are as bad for adults as for children.” ir. Cook: spoke as folows: *The ‘task. of the ‘ehurch in these, g is much more compléex than it The new conditions that | ‘Wwith the .growth of (hel i this new attitude. { munity, and like the sun the lefns .that spring from the 'modern factory and tenement house system; the new demand that has arisen, in the cities, especially our coast cities, in the last quarter of a century, by the over-sea march of the foreigner from. southern Europe; the new claim of the child in our midst; the new and better, educational interest; and with all, the new spirit of dem- ocracy and freedom about us, present the church with a task that is far from the simple matter of - holding several services a week an minister- ing to the needy. “In the midst of all of this we find the church without the same authori- ty she once had. There is not the reverence for the ‘cloth’ that our fathers knew. The church today, like any other institution, faces the pragmatic test—‘will it work?’ In fact in some circles the question is simply ‘does it pay? If it cannot Jjustify its existence by results then it should not stand.” And we are glad for The challenge is a stimulating one. We only ask that fairness and paticnce be allowed, for the church, as the school and maay kindred organizations, cannot be measured by the same rule, and can- not be gaged by the same standards of efficiency as the factory. The time clock is not adjusted to measure the | moral values of personality. You can- not build character by piece work. Spiritual values grow slowly and often unseen. And yet we must not let this fact excuse us from being effi- cient where we can, in our business affairs and methods of work. Neither must we allow this to cloister us from the new demands of the throb- bing city life about us. ~‘There are two types of mind as to the chureh in the community. One type makes the church a center into whiecn flow all the currents, that can be directed, from the community life. The church is an end in itself. The other tvpe makes the church a center from which streams of ministry flow out into the community. The church is a means, not an end. In the one cas the church is as a leach sucking its life at the expense of the commun- ity. 1In the other the church-is as tiue sun radiating life through he com- church that radiates also draws. It finds it life not by seeking it but by losing it. ‘This latter type of church is cer- tainly founded on Christ’'s idea of true discipleship and in this spirit let us ask which’ mimstry we' may offer to the comzmflmty in: which wé live. ‘Lot ag first take the church and the goyernment of the city. ‘What shall be the attitude and what can the church contribute to the govern- ment of the city? Probabiy the very best contribution will be its attitude. Wh&t shall that attitudé be The at- titude of some churches in this 'is purely negative, - They do not con- sider it their business and so do nothing-at all. The attitude of some others is meddlesome. They feel that it is all their ‘business and’ so they procéed to put their hand in at all times, but more especially when they can criticise and denounce. But there is another attitude which is ~more surely Christian. It is fearless to censure when .necessary, but it does not forget to praise and aid and build. It is not primarially a destructive at- titudé, but constructive. It lets its officials know that it trusts them and purposes to stand back of them unless they prove unmanly and untrustwor- thy. “Its challenge to men in office is not negative, but positive. It chal- lenges with confidence rather thafn disaster, two kinds of challenge. t will probably be found that for one man in responsible office who is a crook, there are many who are hon- estly and faithfully striving to do their duty and are doing it without public attention or praise. Is it any wonder that these men sometimes feel that the church and its people care nothing as to how they perform their duties waen they never receive our encouragement? It is a Christian duty to praise and support the good in men, as well as denounce the evil, and many a man who falls to evil practice might have kept to the path of rectitude had his encouragement not all come from one source and that source: bad. ‘What now of the church, and the cities education, the church and the public schools? If the schools are to be public schools they c¢annot be church schools. The spirit of our country is rightly opposed to intro- ducing anything sectarian into the public schools. Even the Bible is quite generally barred. I do not be- lieve this is cause for alarm not that we can gain much by insisting upon its use. We will accomplish more if we can cooperate with the public schools, possibly in some such way as the Wish Plan, s0 successfully worked in Gary, Indiana, whereby the churches of the city maintain weck day classes at their church in relig- ious and Bibllcal instruction, whicn counts ‘as_school | crdit. Certainly our present system of Bible instruc- tion and religious training, which is confined ;to about an hours time on Sunday ecach week is not sufficient, es- pecially when religious instruction in the home is at the minimum. The average child, who goes to Sunday school, goes less than ten years and gets an average of about a half hours of more or less haphazard instruction in the Bible and religion each week, | | film so that, if this is all he gets, his to- tal instruction in this line will amount to about twenty-five ten hour days in a life time. Of course this does not cover all the moral and religious in- fluence of the church upon the child, and yet all that is given 1is little enough. If some of the time our church plants stand idle, could be put to such a wholesome plan it would not only enhance the oppor- tunities of our children, but would also raise the stahdard of the indus- try and efficiency ,of the church in the mind of the community. “The education of the city is not limited, however, to our public schools. : Many other agencies enter this field. I want to say a word about the church and the cities play. There was a time when we turned our children out to play as we would turn caitle to pasture. But we are begin- ning to learn something of the value of play and amusements in the life of the community and the necessity of supervision. The unconscious influ- ence of the play ground and the moving picture is perhaps far more powerful than we are yvet able to de- termine. Right here the church and { its people have a duty to consider. There is .not a moving picture place in this city that is distinctly for children. ' Many children are thus de- prived of one of the best forms of education” because parents know the unfitness and those hundreds who do 80 with parents must undergo im- pressions and shocks that may have injurious lasting effect. Why should not New Britain have a children’s movie house as many cities have, or at least some place that showed chil- dren’s pictures one or two days: a week?. In some places this is very successfully donme. Many of the pic- tures in the average play house are as bad for adults as for children, and, like the saloons, the worst ones are in those sections of the city where the people are the most susceptable to their influences. At the end of each you are told that this picture has been ‘Passed by the National Board of Cenzorship.’ But why should a city be content with a National Board of Censors if that board lets by mhany pictures that are plainly in- jurious to the minds and morals of its citizens? Why, I ask, should not the city itself in some way sit in judge- ment upon such popular elements of the amusment and recretion of its people? - Some cities ar doing it, but one trouble encountered is that in smaller cities, many of the movie HORLICK’S The Original MALTED MILK Unless you say “HORLIOK'S™ you may get a Substitute. concerns are owned by men who do not reside in and are not citizens of the city, so that you have difficulty, to get at them. Another difficulty as managers have explained to me is that, while the managers of small play houses may choose their featurc films, they may not choose the fillers less important pictures. These are made up for the circuit by the film companies. And another reasonm, of course, is that the people seem to show by their patronage, that they want this kind of thing. “Many of the people do not, how- cver, and do not go because of it and many who do go would be better satisfied with a higher grade of pic- tures. This is the testimony of those who have interested themselves suffi- ciently to give this a trial. One thing is certain. The people are going to the movies in throngs, and there is Lo indication that they will go less. ‘What are we going to do—sit idly by and let them feast on pictures which stimulate passion and sensation and violence to the ultimate knot of society, and say this is no concern of ours? Here is one very certain source of the city’s development, es- pecially of its child life and as yet in most cities very poorly regulated, if at all. “The home is the buttress of civiliza- tion. No other institution can take the place of the home as a unit in society. If homes are healthful, happy and pure we have a foundation for anything else; if not it will affect every other institution. Now, the church if all it does is to meet com- paratively seldom snd touch but a SYMPTOMS OF DEBILITY People who are tired all of the time and never feel rested even after s lang night in bed, who cannot mg and stren, h whose step lacks ahsucxty and who feel no joy in hvmg, are debili- tal A medical examination might easily show that every orgnn of the body is act- flnormnlly but the pallor of the face usually show that the blood is thin. This is the root of the trouble. Debility is a loss of vitality, not affect- ing any one part of the body but the system generally. The blood goes to every part of the body and the use of -& blood tonic like Dr. Williams® Pink Pills quicl Imnes up the system. The first sign of returning health is a better appe- tite, improved digestion, a quicker step, brighter eyes, better color in the cheeke ‘The rich, red blood, reaching every orgas and muscle, cnrnesrenewed health lnd vigor. The nerves are quieted, sleep be- comes more refreshing and_with persis- tent treatment and proper living de- bilitated patient is once more enabled to enjoy life. 'wo useful books, “Bullqu Up the Blood’’ and ‘“What to Eat’’> will be sent free on request by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectad; ‘; N. Y Your ;w]n druggist eells Dr. ’ Pink ills. 25 small phase of life, cannot develop the religious standards as necessary. “The church must stimulate more religious instruction and training in the home. The church must estab- Iish itself not as a religious institu- tion outside the home, but as a force for creating religion beyond its ac- tivities, especially in the home. The church has usually started in some home. ‘The church that is in thy house’ is the Bible record. But this dces not always exist. There is a cleavage here which is vital. You cannot have a true church unless it is builded upon the principle of a re- ligious force which permeates all life and especially home life. Nothing will 8o:vitiate the teachings of ‘the church as a violation of or disregard for its principles in daily life. “‘Closely related to the home is the city’s industries. This is a live issue just now in New Britain. Friday the issue blazed into violence. Yesterday T listened to the mayor of the city pleading with the workingmen to keep the order of the city. I say rleading—he was not pleading—he wae challenging their loyalty. “It seems to me that it is not wise to launch into a discussion of gener- alities as to a local situation which one has not had time to familiarize himself with and I am not sure that this is the best place for such anyhow. “But there are two things I want to say. In the first place, the church cannot brush such things aside and say: this is none of my business. Ifi we do it will not be long until the church and its work will be nobody’s business. And this is the church’s tusiness. Vital issues of life have always been the business of the church. Of course the church cannot deal directly, but, in its leavening way, ite way of ‘creating the right spirit within,’ it can and must meet such issues. So 1 say this further thing, that { there can be no permanent settlement of labor questions and no final ad- | '_\u!tment between labor and capital, | except on the principle and in the spirit which Jesus taught as social trotherhood. Force and strife and an unyielding class spirit whether it ; be by one or the other party, may settle temporary issues, but the final relations of men can never so be settled—wherever there is injustice, wherever there is hatred, wherever there Is snobbery, wherever there is selfishness, wherever there is attempt to force personality to yield a cause or a principle, there will be ultimate failure. It does not matter who or what class is guilty of this—Force is temporarily necessary at times—All great principles and causes have gone, then their growth in blood, but final adjustment came when men learned and lived the principle of brother- W West Main Stre alone and meditated. brother is married now cares are such that he much work as once he o he may not be discoura; to slip out into the fiel some of my shocks of put them with his, and The other brother, thy alone that night and m he: ‘My brother is not} he is not able to do as once could. I know wi I will go out into the | night and carry some o over and put them with may not grow discouraged, went, “The next morning each his astonishment, found of his shocks undisturbed did not tell, for love ig no when it tells. But they ke task up for three nights. . night as the older brother his younger brother’s figure coming toward dark. They met and brothers, each with his . errand of love to the oths knelt and prayed and on ¥ tradition says, was erected A story only—yes—but wi spirit upon which to bulld of God.” ' ITGHING, BLIS SKIN-ERUPTIC Nov. 19, 1914:~“All my' about a year ago, T was \ blisters and mu ov-r -,y | The lhhin! and I coul hudly -l.' 1 treatments that | did not glvo me .ny relief, | w Solp nnd th hrl REL[EVED AT ON Cl ubout two dozen applications that I was free an mlr-l of di-ena.r My skin ;a' is anybody’s.”— ) Geo. Jr{ R. F. D. anu, Caled Resinol Ointment and R sold by all druggists. 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