Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-09
SECOND SHOP TALK
 BY REV. c. H. RICKETTS,.
Why the Brotherhood Was the Topic
 at McCrumb- H owell Plant.

In the series of shop talks under '. NJ C. A. auspices the second in q noon hour at the McCrumb Howell company plant. The speaker was Rev. C. H. Ricketts, and soprano solos were given with fine effect by Mrs L. O. Potter.
 Rev. Mr. Ricketts had an attentive audience of about 150 men. addressing them in continuance of the thought of his talk a week ago. Then he spoke
 upon The Biggest Union in the World, indicat ting human brotherhood, and this
 time he spoke on the topic Why the
 Brotherhood?
 The idea of unity, he said. visi-
 ble in Gods plan with the first man
 created, for he created a wife for him,
 and since then the family relation has
 been the brightest spot in humanity,
 and it's happiness is due to the several
 members living together in mutual re-
 lations of love- and peace. From the family came the tribe government. bet
 ter protecting life and property, and then naturally the nation The brotherhood is now d triple strand hard to break.
 For many thousand years there was no larger unit of brotherhood than the national: no larger one was re- ouired as long as men confined their thinking and acting within national boundaries. But modern scientific in vention and discovery broke up the old order in that it unified the world
 
 phone. the wireless, and rapid transit by land and sea has brought the world together like magic. We are nearer to London and Paris today than we were to New York less than hundred years ago Representatives of every known nation are found in great numbers in all modern capitals Is it strange that seeing men like Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft should work for international peace, for that is only another name for in ternational orotherhood2 The palace of The Hague tribunal is the worlds great white signal thatsthe death lInelI Of war has been sounded that Amer ica will never again fight her brethren across the seas: that in England. France and Germany the sword shall be beaten into the plowshare and the spear into the pruning fork The time is fast approaching when the civ iIized world will not tolerate anything that tends to tear the nations apart. The building up Of a world brother rood has cost too much to be sacri- feed now, and may the hand that is lifted to strike this brotherhood be crushed. God in His great providence nations. and what God has joined to- gether. let no man put asunder."
 We need the brotherhood to bring out all the power of the individual It is a well known fact to mechanics that four horses harness and pulling together can draw a load which, di vided into four parts could not be moved by those horses working sepa- rately. Unity brings out power. Sun pose I have before me five glasses In the first is water. of course perfectly harmless: in the second. a little car hon like piece of charcoal. as narm- less as the water: in the third a small amount Of oxygen which is the life giving in the air: in the fourth glass. quite quantity of nitrogen. a gas so weak that you can pound it and T, xr-r ft7 small results; in tie last glass is a sweet oily substance of very little power, known as siycerire. Now, if these five substances are united chem iCaIly what do we have" Nitro glN- ceripe a terrible explosive. Unity has touched it with Hehtning and it's power is almost inca alculaDle Now when all the sleepine powers in mems lives can be brought into brotherlv relations. a compound will be created that will move the world.