The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24
LAW OF GLASSES Rev. Harold Pattison Tells of Like Seeking Like, and
 Reasons.
IN THE Y. M. C. A. MEETING
Law Evidenced Most in Classes-In- tucnce of Christianity
 Shown.

The second mens' meeting held un- der the auspices of tho Chapman cam palgn committee. was held yesterday afternoon in Foy Auditorium, '. Nj. C. A. Building. Rev. Dr. Watson L. Phillips presided. The speaker for the afternoon was the Rev. Harold Patti son. pastor of the First Baptist church of Hartford, Conn. His theme was Birds of a Feather" The soloist was Miss Grace E Walker, who sang most beautifully.
 The speaker said that his proverb il- frustrated a great law. Ut is the law of like seeks like. Throughout all na- ture We find this self same law, and So it is with men. who find their own level. It is a law of two worlds, the physical and spiritual. He told of the formation of the pearl and ruby How it took place side by side in the same kind of soil and yet each retained it's identity. He called attention to the peculiar manifestation of this law on the beach. The boulders were found high up on the shore. Then came tho rocks the pebbles, the coarse sand and finally the very inc sand. One can't help asking why do birds flock togeth- CT? But 1t Is not confined to the phy- sical inanimAte world. You will find it in society. We pride ourselves on not having castes in England and America but if you could have been with me last year in England you would have seen much the same thing, There they ,alk about classes in so- ciety, and in Democratic America, We have our circles. The law must be recognized. Only snobs sheer at it, and anarchists rebel against it. The forty seven regiments that he have in our Protestant church ranks arc large ly an outgowth of this law. Our pol itics are governed by 1t. Even in busi- ness it is So We have capital and labor, trusts and unions.
 The law is evidenced most in char j acter Put 1000 men in a large room, and leave them there for a while. Sup pose that all were strangers. If you would come back in a little while. you would find them arranged into natural groups. The parsons would be in one part. the lawyers, doctors, manufae- turers and business men in others. Each man in each group talking about ] his particular theme as though it was 1 the only thing in the world. Men are separated by many things, thousands Of circumstances drawn the lines of cleavage.
 He told of the influence that Chris tianity had exerted in drawing men to- gether, particularly in the early days. It was Gods plan that men should be drawn together by the great hope that ! Christ had given. "The law works two : ways. Sin sinks men and righteous ness raises them according to this great plan. William Jay said to his rarishioners "When I consider the in- constituencies of your lives, should the devil come to get you, I could not say Stop thief because he comes to claim his own He used the story of the transformation from good to evil in the life of Nero, and also the story of the Great Stone Face to good effect
 Righteousness rises. 1t may not be out of place to ask the question right here Why don't men come to church 9 If this were a meeting for women, the hall would be crowded to the doors" " He told of how one Saturday night, he visited the saloons of Hartford, and there he found men in large numbers. He said that in the pail at Hartford there were 2S5 male prisoners and only 9 women. In Wethersfield there were 475 men and 15 women. Men are fill- ing our prisons and saloons. Are at tending the races and gambling dens. You may say 1t is because men are more reasonable than women. Not so. Show me a more unreasonable thing than the gambling hall. It Is not req son which keeps men out of the church. It is because women are 9 heap better than We shall ever be. It takes far more grace to save a man than a woman The amount of grace needed to save me would save a regi- ment of women. Five women go into libraries where one man goes. Birds