Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-28

| praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts"
 Intoxicating of Work of the Centuries. His topic was The Interlocking of the Work of the Centuries, and he said In parti We are here to find fer our selves two very definite things-the grounds In the past of a mans grat- itude and second to find our relation ship to those who are coming after us. For we are the heirs of the ages and the stewards of the destiny ef the unborn.
 ed this mutual dependence of one gem eration upon another. As we have
 heard and seen so are we to pass on the record in enlarged and ever en-
 larging form. The future calls us to transmit the possibilities of a better life than the past has made possible for ourselves. We have our part to play in the btg problem of world mak
 Ing. The physical world was not finished product, but a world in the process of making when man was giv'. en place on it's surface. And man was thrust into the thick of this vast coSm1c problem on purpose to help forward the developing process. We should have been hepelessiy emascu- lated had we been tucked under the sheltering folds of the garden of Eden always. God needs man to help him make perfect landscape, to reduce the fields to fertility and productive ness, to employ the powers that are latent in natures elemental forces. And in that work man finds his discipline, his overcoming power, his manhood.
 Vast is our debt to the millions of workers who have gone before us? Other men have created civilization, provided ordered society, established protecting governments, built our cities, written our books, provided our art, furnished our comforts, fought their way and our way into freedom and a mans full chance to live. We have a goodly heritage.
 Our Religious Heritage.
 Our religious inheritance is the best. We are the heirs of all these Chris tian centuries and we are the un- worthy children of a great ancestry if we are not justly estimating our obligations and our tremendous and pressing responsibilities.
 Not Merely Interiors.
 We are not merely interiors, but the creators of a great future. We are not here to merely initiate the past and the great and the great souls l of the past-but to surpass them. We 1 have no business here making our lives selfish yortices. We must live and work for the unbuilt city of God 1 in the future and the first contribu- i tion to this is a finer type of character 1 than we have received from the older l generation We are fortunate if the | iron blood of the Puritan flows in our veins but we should progress to an l even higher type of man than they. 1
 Character Demanded Now.
 We are aware at last that only great | souls can be entrusted with the des- tiny of the state. We are passing out l of the zone of the old politician and | the old dictation of bosses of a pre- i vious age The granite of character 1 must be built into the men who get 1 our cof1ndence now. The individual is 1 the starting point. We must be, before i we can do.
 Transmit a Purer National Life.
 Then, second, we must produce and | to the future a purer na- | tional life It has been hard to con- l vince selfish men, who exploit so sa- l cred a thing as government for sell | fish uses, that nations travel on their l When nations become cor rupt they die; when they stand still, relying on their past-they rot. It is a great question what the nations are going to put into the future.
 Shall We Transmit These7
 Are we going to transmit to them our low ideals, our tolerated inequality of ! privilege, our class prejudice. our in- dustrial expressions, our exploitation i of a weaker class
 Shall we send the nation to them ! with it's corrupt cities, with it's shame full municipal rule with it's industrial l mala6justments, with it's white slav- cry, with it's noted dens of vice, it's l gambling hells; above all, with it's | death dealing saloon eating the heart ! out of civilization?
 Are We going to transmit a, drunken i world and send drink besotted degen- i crates to make history for the people | who will be here at the close of the l 20th century?
 erfng up the derelicts which the pres ent order creates, or are we going to | arise and dig out the cause of the dere- 1 licts, root and branch?
 It is doing deadly work here, but 1t is | doing worse work among the natio1e | that could be raised out of savagery-I peoples now claiming their long delay ed chance to live. Let us have na- I tional life in which little children can 1 be protected-yes, a chance to be well | born-a nation where homes are de- | tended and where virtue can be possi- ole and character put within reach; B nation with an emancipated woman hood, where woman can have the con ditions to live her fullest life and can with men cast her whole personality against every obstinate and defiant evil which society has too long protected and Snamefully abetted.
 Women Into the Conflict.
 Let woman out into this irrepressible conflict for better world and some problems will find solution. Let Debo- rah be summoned from her yelled and l shrouded mystery, for Barak will not stand his ground. Barak is the offend ing party, and is to be himself re- formed. It is Barak himself who is | with low ideals, who is drink ing himself drunk behind the silken pa vilfons, raving in these dens of wild beasts, debauching innocence, the abet- tor of child labor, the drink evil and white slavery, and honeycombing with graft every department of indus trial and business life.
 Man the One to Be Reformed
 Man is the party to be reformed. and men do not inaugurate measures of 1 self-reformation, and so let woman out into this bigger world of self expression 1 and worldwide battle with principali- ties and powers and spiritual wicked ness in high places and low It is no time for the recluse and the shaded mysteries. It is time for man and woman to be out on the field.
 The Mission of the Church Never AL
 tered.
 The third gift to the future is sthe church. It came to us from all of inc former generations. It may have al cred in outward form but 1t has never altered in mission. The church has been the greatest force of the world and one of the grounds of thanksg1vine