The Newtown bee., 1902-08-15
Eight Pages.
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
NEW MILFORD.

CONGREGATIONALC CHURCH NOTES.
 Rev l.. F. Buell., pastor of the Coco
 Will Congregational church, Syracuse
 N. Y., preached at the Congregations church, Sunday morning, giving { sermon of great power. His text wa! Romans IA: ', "No man nveth to him self," and Mark 12:31, '"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." He said ir part:
 Independence is a word much glori fled, but independence does not exist We are dependent upon each other The animal finds his food and clothing ready to his hand, but man must de: velop by study, insight, work and thought. The clothes we wear and the food we eat have a history made by thought. The needs of man deter mine his civilization. The foreign missionary rejoices when the savage needs pair of trousers or shirt. A need is the beginning of his develop ment. And the more the needs, the greater our incapacity to satisfy them munities cannot use what they pro- duce and need what others produce. Elgin and Waltham make watches, Lynn makes shoes, Grand Rapids makes furniture, Lowell and Lawrence produce cotton cloth. It is literally, commercially, materially true that no man liveth to himself.
 l. All that man possesses of power is due to cooperation with others. First: We cooperate with God. Machinery is not power, it is the means of using power. The dynamo is not power. Man has cO-Operated with God. God tho cto orl o1oo tricity-man adaptS it and uses it.
 We must put our bodies in line with the forces that tend to make them better. We must give ourselves to the best forces and work with them if we will be lifted. And with reference to our highest interests, we must CO., operate with God, if our souls are to be saved.
 Second: We cooperate with others. Language corresponds with the social relations of the people; ideas are de- pendent upon the ideas of others; val ues are enhanced by growth in popula- tion; esthetics are ca led out by rela- tions; morality is tempered by public sentiment; it is the relation existing between souls that turn the raw mate rial of religion into psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs; capital and labor are dependent upon each other.
 But at present cooperation seems to have run wild, and individual effort is minimized. We must guard against what takes away responsibility from the individual. It is said that there is a certain place near New York where the mothers, trying to find their own children, take pail and cloth and wash faces till they find their own. And Individuality is lost in Organiza- tions, clubs, societies.
 2. To develop and carry on to it's per- lection the best forces of our life we must have the right ideal for all in view. The savage, the brute, even the scientist cannot give us the ideal Here the survival of the fittest, the law of every one for himself, will not answer. Each one is to give something to the race-and he who gives, grows. The ideal is not to get, but to give; it is not to have position nor yet to have pleasure, but to produce manhood. The end of the apple tree is not to pro- duce fire wood but apples.
 Babylon placed sense above charac- ter, and died. Rome placed law above manhood and is dead. The Jew placed the letter above the life and lost. Greece placed Art first and lives in the past. There are periods in the life of each when manhood is put first, and success crowns these periods.
 Christianity puts manhood first, last, and always. II claim your protec- tion" is word which each may give to every other. And the ideal which each has for himself, each must have for society. Character is first.
 3. "Thou shalt love. thy neighbor as thyself." Life has two aspects, up- ward toward God, and outward toward man. Our conduct is to spring out of our experience. 'Put yourself in his place" will solve many problems. We are severe. We criticize each other. Love contains the desire to give and the desire to bless. Aims may be in- dolence. A trusting love will make men trustworthy. Hold fast to the love that puts yourself in the others place and go forth to duty.
 Rev Dighton Moses, pastor of the Sherman Congregational church, will supply the pulpit here on Sunday. MT Moses is a strong preacher and ;has many friends here.