New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 3

EVERYMAN'S BIBLE CLASS NEW RECORD (Continued from Preceding Page) “Abraham Lincoln started life in a log hut, wearing the clothes that his mother made for him, never going to a graded school, remembering to his | dying day the first dollar that he earncd, the rail splitter and back- woodsman, yet closed his day im the ‘White ‘Hduse. “Just after the old Whig party had died and before the republican party had been organized, Abraham - Ten- coln, riding across the state of Illinois with his law partner, said one day, 'Dead, dead, dead; the whole political world séems to be dead.’ They rode on in silence for a moment or two, Ahen Lincoln said to his friend. ‘Did you ever think what an awfu! thing it would be to live in this world and leave the world no better than you found it?* Tt secems to me in that brief satement we Rave an insight into the secret of his success. God had endowed him in mind and heart in such a way that made it impossible for him to he at rest except in the Ponviction that he was making this old world a better world in which to live, That was the purpose of his life; that was the great passion of his mind, to do good and to be good. “That ought to be also the secret and purpose of our lives, There are no other people in all the world who tave the rights and privileges that the American people have. In 1778, 11 years after the signing of the Declara- tion of Independence, 55 of our fore- fothers assembled in Philadelphia, with Washington, their president, to | frame the constitution of these United States. Benjamin Franklin was there, then an old man, almost too feeble to read his speeches, often having them read for him by someone else; Ham- fiton was there. From May until! September they discussed the consti- ,tution of these United States. Finally this instrument is complete and s signed and ready to be sent out for ratificatfon, and then Franklin, that ofd prophet, that old political seer, arose and said: ‘Gentlemen, through all of these days of discussion I have been sitting here looking at the pie- ture of the sun painted on the back of the president’s chair; and I have been asking myself, Is that a setting sun or is that a rising sun? And now | that that instrument is signed and | ready for ratification, T know thaf that Is a rising sun.’ “At that time there was not a line of electric telegraph in America; there was not a mile of railroad in America we had no airplane, we had no | wireless, we had no telephone, we had no electric light. We had practically nothing there is in Ameriea today and yet that oid prophet saw through the | instrument of the constitution of these United States that the sun was rising over America, What could be say If he were here today and could wee this great teeming people of 110 millions, the wealthiest nation in sls | the world, with every nation looking | to America? “When Franklin went to France as | our ambussador, France would hard- | 1y recognize America. No nation car. od to récognize America. Poor John Panl ‘Jones, the father of the Ameri- ecan navy, pleaded with France to fire | a salute and recognize the navy of America, and he didn’t know whether they would or not. Benjamin Frank- | lin pleaded with them to fire a salute | when John Paul Jones sailed into the | This Winter | keep efficient take SCOTTS EMULSION |coln and that he showed by his life harbor, And, if 1 remember correct- | Iy, John Paul Jones went in, and he | said, ‘I will go out again, and when | I come in you fire a salute to reec-| ognize America,’ Almost like chil- dren, playing at it, they wanted them | to salute so intensély to show that we really were separate and inde- pendent and that somebody would speak to us, “What would they think today, if | Benjamin Franklin could come back, if John Paul Jones could come back, to gee the nations of the world liter- ally ready to eat from the hand of | the greatest nation on earth? Al- ready the sun that Franklin saw ris- | ing is shining full orbed over these United States today-—the leading na- tion in the world, Friends, it is al- most unbelievable, They say that the | sun never sets on the British empire, | An American said, ‘That's ' because | God cannot trust the British in the dark’ The sun is shining full-orbed | over America today, but it doesn't shine always on America, for God can still trust the American pnop|’.I They used to say that we Americans ! were materialistic; that we were after the almighty doliar. They don't say that any longer. We are not after | the almighty dollar; we, have the al- | mighty dollar, and that’ crowd is af- ! ter it now. “What I began to say was that in that constitution there are w! are called amendments, Somebody said, I think it was Hamilton, ‘What rights belong to the people?’ And they said, *All the rights belong to the people in America: they are not delegated to their judiecial, government or execu- tive bodies.” Someone said, ‘This may not be always understood; we better write it in black and white” 8o we have there the first 10 amendments, saying that we have the right of trial by jury, freedom of speech, freedom of the press; that your ecannot be searched except upon due warrant, a privilege which we enjoy under the 18th amendment if we never did be- fore. These privileges were granted to the people of these United States, No people in the world have the rights that you have, that I have, and that spell opportunity in this great land of ours, “When I speak about Abraham Lin- Lic-o-rice ol anise flavor, more delicious than plain licorice - = ing to relate, was eight vears of age. she got the children together she found that somebody had stolen the | feather beds. (You see, America is |the land of opportunity!) The moth- |er sat down and cried, and this old- I(-,st hoy, eight years of age, sat down by her side, put his arms around her and sald, ‘T am going to help you, not |enly to get more feather beds, but to (gt a home in this new land." They started up town. On the way two of the little children are lost. The moth- er looked two days and a half and finally found them just as a policeman {was going to take them into his home | because they were so lovely. Finally they got to Pennsylvania. The first suit of clothes this boy ever had he | got out of a charity store, er made him take them back, saying, | “They are not for us, they are for the tion, somebody said, ‘Yes, but that poor’ Then they didn't have 10 cents was in Lincoln's day,’ and when T iy their home. The boy said, ‘There spoke of Franklin, ‘Yes, but that was \were five of us sleeping in one bed. In Franklin’s day, but it is no longer | One couldn’t turn over unless the oth- true; you cannot rise in Amerlca to- {ors did, We had a custom, when one day as you could In those days’ But, \wanted to turn all would turn; we friends, T want to say this with all |would say ‘Rise! Turn! Down.' the fervor of my soul, I hfln"-s”y be- “The first position that hoy ever lievp that there is no wall in‘'America | 144 was working in a hardware store. o high but that it can be scaled by | He was given the job of separating character, ability and industry. Those | ;.15 the good nafls with heads on who have character, who have abil- | iy one pile and the ones with no ity and who are industrious can and | heads in another, He said, ‘I learned do rise in America every moment | yient there in mw boyhood days that from the lowest to the highest posi- ‘ it was with men as it was with those tion that our people can bestow. If [,a418 it Is the head that counts, that a man doesn't have character, if he | makes them worthwhile; and if a has no ability and isn’t industrious, | man has no head he might just as then he ought not to rise in this or | wall be in the scrap heap.' Thos boy any other country. We ought not lr)]wrnt to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at have a form of government by which | 16 years of age. He was an iron pud- the worthless will rule over those who | qler, He got books, He lived in an are more worthy, as they have inlaid inn called “Two Buckets of Blood,' Russia today. When we have that| roomed in a room with other men the opportunities of American civiliza- kind of a government something will | who were always cursing the govern- | happen in America-—~the same thing | ment and saying that poor men never that's happening in Russia today. | got a show. He was trying to educate Thelr best sclentists, stheir best en- | pimself, One night they threw him gineers, their greatest architeets are ' and his books out of the window, and landing in New York city, coming to he went to a more quiet spot called our shores because there is no place | *Cut Throat Inn,’ where he could pur. for them, for intelligence and selence | gue his studies unmolested in Russia today. It is a sample of [that man? That man is James those who have no character and no | Davis, secrotary of labor of these abllity ruling over those who have | United States, who sits around the character and ability, and it Is wrong. | eabinet table with President Coolidge God's blessing is not upon it. That's | und the great brains of this country. what would happen in this country, :Ar‘mu,lly living now, showihg the pos- Story of Another Davis sibilities of America’s civilization for “Over in Wales there was a little | the poor and the obscure to rise to family—-father, mother and six chif- | places of prominence and influence, dren, The father came to our shores “Who is the president of these and went out Into Pennsylvania and [United States? Every New Englander began to work., In a little while he [ knows, Calvin Coolidge! Not got enough to send back for his fam- lago I was riding from Bellows Falls ily. The mother came here with those | to Rutland, Vi, where 1 was going to six ehlldren and some feather beds, | speak at a Sunday school convention. The oldest boy, whose story 1 am go- | As I eame along to Ludlow a man got Power That strapping big new Overland engine has everybody talking. It is all sinew and power, It sends you zooming up the stiffest climbs as nimbly as you please. This is Overland Power Demon- stration week. Come in— take an Overland out and prove to yourself that it is the most automobile in the world for the money. Champion $69! Sedan $795, {. 0. b. Toledo. R. C. RUDOLPH SALESROOM SERVICE 127 PHONE PHONE 179 2051-2 1 ELM STREETY CHERRY STREET PALACE-—Starting Next Sunday “THE MABEL NORMAND in EXTRA GIRL” One of the Best This Year! His moth- ! Who s 3.l long | on the train. He said, ‘You are a stranger here,’ and he showed me where ‘right through these hills is where Calvin Coolidge was born.' Ten miles from a rallroad, 20 miles from 4 strest car, in a little village that never had a graded school. ‘That's | where Calvin Coolidge grew up. He went to school at Ludlow, and to col- lege at Ambherst, the first college he could get to. At college they took a | vote on who was likely to be the most successful man. Dwight Morrow got | all out one of the votes, and Calvin | Coolidge got one vote. | that Calvin Coolidge got was the vote | of Dwight Morrow. Back of the rough | exterior of that country i to say so. He himself is a member of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan. (‘a)- | vin Coolidge wrote an essay and got 18150 and a gold medal, and he never told anybody about it. Six weeks later the lawyer in whose office he worked | saw an account of it in a paper, and | said, ‘Are you the Calvin Coolidge who won this gold medal? Why didn't | ¥ou tell me?’ Coolidge said, ‘T don't | know." The lawyer sald, ‘Have you | told your dear old father? No, he hadn’t, | You would have sent a telegram; i‘you would have got them on'the tel phone; you would have walked all th i way home just to tell it, and o would | 1. That's the reason he's president {and we're not. I heard of an old | farmer up in Vermont who heard {hat | They landed at New York city. When ‘ William Jennings Bryan was to de- the humblest citizen liver an address over the radio. The | o1d man listened, and listened and lis- tened and didn’t hear a thing. |1y he said, ‘that's not Wililam Jen- | nings Bryan, that's Calvin Coolidge | talking.* “We American people have always demanded from our president a word or phrase that would express their administration’ Washington's was ‘Independence’. Lincoln's great word was ‘Union.’ Roosevelt's phrase was ‘The Strenuous Life.' Wilson's, ‘Making the World S8ame for Domoc- racy.’ Harding's, ‘Normaley.' Pr dent Coolldge's great word, charac- teristic of the man-—'Stability.’ It seems that is in his character—the jvery granite and iron of those Ver- ‘ DIAMONDS When they are set in white gold. Diamonds set in it at a gold does. Also, by reason of its | You will enjoy wearing your mountings, $7.50 up, Headquarters | For Birthday ’ and Wedding | Gifts | Berkey & Gay Wal Berkey & Gay Mahogany Bedroom Suite of Large Dresser, Twin Beds, Vanity, Chair, Rocker and Bench. Stapdard Price $575.00. Reduced $116.00 to Berkey & Gay Ten Piece Mahogany Dining Suite. Standard Price $530.00. The one vote | | lawyer, | | Dwight Morrow saw the qualities that | would make a president, and he dared | BERKEY hills, and he wants something in the character of this nation that will hold its stable. ‘What we need {18 not more government and more cul- ture, not more laws, but more re-| {ligion. You must appeal to the »pIr-i {itnal in man ,and his soul will re-| |spond as the needle to the magnet. | |T have seen it timé and again, when | {the church leaves the village in New | ingland the whole village disinte-| {grates” My friends, we believe in| {him because he believes in God, be- ause he believes in the church, he believes in religion, he believes in the | spiritual in man. Though I am a| progressive and though I am some- | what radieal, I believe in Calvin| Coolidge. | “The other day when the senate! tried to use the steam roller to rush | him to force Denby to resign, he said: 1'It is his to say whether he shall re- {sign or not.’ He will not be rushed | !to eause an innocent man to suffer; |neither will he be forced to protect {the guilty man if he finds him so. He will do his own thinking and call for his resignation when it is neces- !sary. That's the type of man that Calvin Coolidge is. He's a little slow, but all New England, is too. We are iglad for such a man. “The thing T tell his story for is, To show it is still possible for a boy in a little country village, |without a graded school, 10 miles !from a railroad, 20 miles from a trol- ley car, to be president of the United | States. And as long as the way from | and the hum- blest cottage in America Is open to the highest position, with beckoning mont th ¥inal-4hands and illuminating lights, calling to vou to rise in America; so long as that is true, my friends, there's Ino place for the bolshevist or the an- larchist in America. But if we ever let that road be closed against ob- scurity and poverty, that day we will hand the bolshevist and the anarchist la elub with whieh he will destroy lflns government and this constitution lof ours. 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