New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 3

. . The friendship betwéen the i‘oun.‘ Although forced to leave school, | hospitality of the residents. had ;mmed him to that city. An incident which occurred Llfe Sto of Rev Dr Klm ber v and the old net mender began | the young man's appetite for educa-| At the age of 19 he returned home| . In Chicago he obtalned board | New Britain set him thinking. . . ’ g g " nhen young John started schaol at tlon, whetted by the old net mender | for a visit. So destitute wus the | with a Swedish family and worked | tiny little #irl wandered Inte oo o o 4 k. the age of seven years. Eomehow, | and the three books, was not to be | family that the mother also Wad in a rolling mill forging axles for | backyard one morning She sat Reads L'ke Cllapters From Flctlon W L somewhere at ubout ths'uge he met denied. He rcad everything he could | working. carrying bricks and mortar railroad trucks. At this time, ae | all day. She was taken into the | F the old man on his travels on foot get. There was no discrimination. | to help buy food for the family, A saya, he suddenly awoke to the fact | torate at night and questioned. Be- from farm to farm, whiere the lat- | Novels, history, poetry, the diction- | typical meal consisted of potatoes | that his opportunity to receive an | tween sobs she said she had ' ne | ter not only mended! pets. but did | ary, the Bible, the mosat bloodthirsty | tried in herring oil, and when the | education had been lost. home and no one to leok after her. Head of Children’s Home Born in Obscurity and | | 3 other small jobs, recetving in: vages | and blood curdling murder stories, | supply of potatoes was scarce, the Although he had never heard of | Three days later a relative ealled v 5 o o food and shelter and ' ‘sometimes crime, eversything he could get in| mother usually reserved for her Elthu Burritt, who learned 50 lan. | 30 took her away. Worked as Laborer in Rolling Mill. ~ money. printed form. “Aud 1 learned a lot | portion only the peelings. . t guages by studytng while at his Puts Bibie 0 Test ¢ Today the minfbter remembers his | O thiNgs 1 should not have knowsn" | When hin vigit was. concluded and | piackamiin's forge, young Kiingberg, | “But what," asked the minister of A great man stood on a bridge operated a steam hammer, parallcls 0ld triend with & feeling of pleasure | he admits. {and the young man, now 19 years|formed of the same indomitable | his wife, ‘becomen of those whe at Berlin, Conn., and preached a the record of Elihu Burritt the il - 3 e o ot g hiaTood | He carrled his passion for reading | old. prepared 1o leave, there 0¢-| will to get ahead, studied Grack and'| have no' relatives? The answer ' to sermon. He may not have real lage blacksmith. i man and a good friend, and his only and etudy to such an extreme that | curred an impressive scene, which | Latin grammar chalked on a plecc | his question has since been written he was preaching a sermon., He Bl folouibad sHOHC L hats o A weakness was that he got drunk” he - his parents were worrled. Finally ft | left its mark upon the character of | o¢ sheet fron while working nights | on the pages of American history. would object &trenuously to be Al posterity his faith 1 God and i ol siyg, Was found pecomsary 19 do . some. | the boy for'the rest. of his life. {as a steam hammersmith, He laid his problem before the a great man. the practicability of the Bible from The three books, cherlshed pos- | (INE drastic. The father took away | Placing one hand on cach-shoulder| He pursued his studics whilo | leaders in the ohurch. *Toor ame ; : e s 4 were | the boy's kerosene lamp 60 he could | and looking squarely into his eyes, | working at the mill, and saved his | bitions are worthy" they sald, “but audience of one, in A hu.\m.-a,\ s‘;ll‘lrll»‘nlvm. v|f1.u"l: m‘m ‘.I : ? m‘l‘x:):sc?{;n:ool :hxzet \‘-::l.‘;l;"'m-::;' R e R the mother said: "My boy I have no money until there came a time when | the undertaking is too big. Where . une sentence and consuming but a < ‘”“:‘, oo mondinany wblilty an . 3 school teacher with the injynction | BUt the same spirit which later | money to glve you. I cun leave you| Lo was enabled to enter the Uni- | can we get the money? We are tuction of a4 minute this man told | ) o ;',‘ “”‘]“ *”I' 'I livi Zap x 5 3 that she put them in a bookeasc | 1°arned that only crooked rivers go | no fortune. But you have u g0od | versity of Chicago. He went first to | sorry, but it can't be done.” is whols philosophy of life. ex- on 'i“\:“» 10 ‘.|[ vv his, ]14'1 b il 3 Bl \ith their backs always in view go ! 4round the easy way, was manifest | strong body. my son; if you work the academy and then to the theo-| “But” argued the minister, “The Pluined how be had overcome ob- ‘_”‘ modesty simply enhanees his | ; . 8 that they would_remain an fnspira. P the boy even at that early age. | You Will always tind bread.” | logical seminary, having ‘decided by | Bible says ‘God will provide for the dpleatand diad st B homss Send areatnoss e j 1on to the boy untll he reacheq H° uccepted the loss of the lamp, | Agaln, subconsclously, wus ex-| (i time to become o ie orphans and the fatherless. Let's lucation to almost u thousand or From the duy, when at the age of -5, that point in his education where ' ONly 48 an incentive for greulcrlurnsed th: philosophy that only [n 1895 he graduated from the | put the Bible to a test. Let's show pian children and in the same nine, he his first job. John E . he would be able to read them, The | ©ducation cfforts. Night after night, | crooked rivers take the casy way. In seminary, eight years after he had our faith in God. brcath explained why most men fail Kiipgl, 15 faced and overcome continued presence of the booka in “hen his parents thought him a few words the motkier had driven | arrived in America, Ho was ordaln. | The lcaders {0 the church were while a few succeed e rivers are crooked frant of hiny ativen the young man ' #%1e2D in his bed in the attic, hejhome the old,age philosophy that 'nd in the Swedish Baptist church | good men, men of vision and human S S R R ety BERG D. 1. 10 his best efforts o master the al- | 10 be found, fat on hle stomach | “He who would cat. must work.” | and asslgned a small pastorate in | sympathy, but the project of puttieg nd rivers run erooked he says, AR i SEAl ARl A0 t and by the time he was nine | hidden behind & cupboard, reading| From city to city, sometimes | Routh Chicago. Whilz there he met | the Bible to such a supreme and Why do the: If onc were 1o say that Joln h Erickson, apparently material test was too ter-commerce 1 s ars old he had applied for and re- “ith the alr of a stolen tallow ! walking and &lceping in barns at | «nd married Magdalene ¢ when they meet resis- | Klingberg was born of oIS gty sy Aol TiA Booke: candle. { night, sometimes when more pros- | the present Mrs. Klingberg. He re- ambitious for ordinary men. They 80 around it. They tuke honest parents” he would be usine | e From the lumber yurd the voung | perous, riding on rallroads, the boy, | mained there until 1960 when he | shook their heads regretfully. ay.” 1 literal truth by means of « trite luge wher 11 M cutter's The day his @re @iven ths Books |y meiauared at the age of 11 10| now grown to manhood, sought cumec to New Britain and was mado But therc was another minister in John E. Klingberg, D. D. and shop worn phi anily. stood ¢ t Was 4 carly spring day; the sunl, "oouuen oy b hop in a emali | work. In & railroad station on his | pustor of the Elim Swedish Baptiat | New Britain whose work among the mian who is siid to have prove:d When on November 5. 1567, 1 g lake ' g grew shonc brightly overlicad and the o POERAR age of 15 he left home | travels he met a friendly stranger | church. = | unfortunates had attracted atteation, t the Bible is a practical hook, wimber of childien in the fawily of P 0 an g of mavization. SNOW was melting. In hls bare fect, | o went to work tn an fren foun-| who directed him to a rolling mill| But fate hLad bigger things in | To Rev. Lyman S§. Johngon, the capable of working modern niiraele ) dish stonc cutter on a snin Pirse 1 Y becsuse shoes mere morn.only When |y oo uclietors Hore ho camie uns | w here he found not only work, but ! store for him. Even at this time his | city’s first probation officer and the man who, born amidst ab tarm in the villaze of Suxhytta The carcer of 1 wan ity forfproteation againgtiee- |y ; o)\ intiuance of @ Chelstian Bo: congenlal companionship. A new lite work had not vet Legun. All | founder of the City Mission, the yoverty, now stands at the head and Province of Westmanland, Swoln, o ul of cont and | ¥ote exposute, tha bey with Bis Rev| oy, o widow, with whem Hie beands | ety on Ute opened up now, which | other experiences were Lut prelim- | younger pastor went for advice and serves without salary one of the | was increased from five to six by | complication from the | Ireastires trudged through the mell- | o5 3ng was confirmed in ‘the Luth. | includad companionship of the op- | inaries; simply training for a great | counsel. “I want something whereby mest unique institutions in the Unit- the arvival of 4 new boy, that Younz | very start. Chit amons the romark. 118 Snow and puddles of mud to B8 | cran church, the stute church of | pasite sex with its attendant social | destiny. | T can demonstrate that this thing e °d States, if not the entire world. | man opened his eyes on pos ole influences i bis life Jies the | home Beveral miles away. | fueden. This was the first real re- | activities. His education continued | With memoties of his own pover. | possible; I want to prove the ma- His story contains thrills and ro-! which strongly snggested somethims fuet that it © i morals and A change in the’ family fortunes | iigious stmosphere with which he Salls for America in 1690 ty stricken childhood he had de- | terial value of the Bible for prac- manee which s, ts the hfe of akin to destitution religion he wot in childhiood, hesides at this time caused the family's re- | had come in contact with and the A vear later found him a foreman | v« loped a keen sympathy for o|hor|lkal purposes” he said. Abraham Lincoln; his unswerving Carvi a lving for a f Iv of that re J ot bis mothers knee, woval te another town where the ! influence of that woman had a great | in a large rolling mill. July 15, 1899, | unfortunate children, While in Chi-! The elder man's counsel wus beth «fforts to drag himself by his boot- cizht was as hard for that stone cn cane from 1 t o dvunken stone cutter had a small contract | effect on his life, when 23 years.of age, he &et sail cago he often wished he were able | timely and wise. “Let us pray for straps as it were from illitcracy by | ter in those days as it was for him net tender. Ar ! » human | drodging a river, which was used| He remained thire two years|for America, arriving in Boston, | to do semething for the children of | divine guidance” he said. In com- studying the Bible behind Cup- {0 carve pieces of granitc from the derelict w tton that ot for floating logs tor a lumber mill, | when his restless epirit got the bet- | August 4. From ‘there he made his | iron mifl workers. He saw so much | pany with the Rev, John Btrong, loard in his room at nights, amided very stones upon which he worked. pepairing & tor fishormen on the | Young John, at the age of nine, u:i fer of him and he left to seak work | way to Chicago, ‘hoping in vain to jpoverty which bordered upon desti- | — only by the (lickering gleam of o There wy e v n lakes, and whe reercation was | foreed by circumstances to' leave | clsewhere. Here again ensued & pe- | pick up eome trace of a eister who | tution that his heart was troubled. (Continued on Page 18) tallow ndle: his persistent study- | tation ju Sweden, AG 1 ot ehiefly that of antemperanes was i school and go to work, His first_job | rfod of hard and bitter ostruggle for | g of sentences copic from i enough fo affect the cconomic prob- | the donor ot the st catechism, the was that of excavating-levelling the | Iiving. From farm te farm he Grock grammar onto co o lans of the stone cutter's family. | tirst book on Bible history and the | top of a hill for the same lumber | went. sometimes chopping wood or sheet iron and propped in front of | Each comaimity was almost suffi- tirst Now Tostament the boy ever company for which his father now | doing odd jobs for food and lodging, limin an iron foundry where he | cient unte itself. and what little in- o worked. | sometimen accepting the charitable $70,000 To Get By! “Yes, of course you ‘ve seen this before "— but as long as there exists a real need for the Com- munity Chest, so long will there be annual appeals. The campaign opens Monday and continues until April 23rd. Ten organizations make their combined appeal to the citizens of New Britain — one cam- paign instead of ten. 3 $77,000 is required if each of the ten units is to give Bveivhadv's trokie ik Tydol Ethyl its best service to New Britain. To maintain only ‘verybody’s trying the new Tydo Y. the present extent of their work—that is, to stand Already thousands of car owners have still—$70,000 MUST be raised. ; found that Tydol Ethyl is superior to any | During the coming week the people of New ‘._Britain }‘,’:r‘":';fe";’l';’zt anti-knock fuel they have ever used. ‘ who have so loyally supported the Community Chest that says Tydol | will decide-whether this year's chest is to be partly Ethy1 Why not test Tydol Ethyl in your own s or wholly filled. i ; wotor today. You’ll find that it has all ! 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