Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-28
SHOPTALk GIVEN AT
 RICHMOND RADIATOR PLANT.
Topic Taken by Rev. c. H. Tickets
 Was the Pilot.

About 150 assembled in the foundry of the Richmond Radiator company at noon Monday to hear Rev. c. H. Rick, etts of the Greeneville Congregation al church who conducted the shop
 talk in the series given under the aus
 pices of the '. M. c. A., speaking on
 The Pilot A portable screen was ar
 ranged over one of the tracks in the
 foundry and on this were thrown the
 stereopticon pictures by General Sec retary F. R. Starkey of the Y. M. c.
 America and Jesus Pilot Me were
 beautifully rendered by Miss Elsie
 Fuller.
 Rev. MT. Ricketts said:,
 My first sight of the sea was sailing from Boston to Portland when a boy
 In considering the officers of the vessel
 the hardest to understand was the
 pilot. Of course it was plain that the ship would not steef itself: that some
 body must stand at the wheel. But why did it need q special man for that duty. The captain and some of the time one of the mates was in the pilot house doing nothing. They were going over the route every day and must have been perfectly familiar with the course. But why the pilot?
 There are many points in common between human life and the sea. The ocean is 8 medium we use in getting from one place to another. Human life, or that part of it that lies out side our personality, is also a medium that bears us on and hence we talk about the sea or the voyage of life The sea of life is as full of dangers as the old ocean. The little human child is no sooner born than he has to face disease whose name is legion and hence the many shipwrecks of little, or, in other words, the great mortality of children under two years of age. But how would it be without the pilot? I mean of course the mother, ever watchful, loving, alert and sleepless doing everything pos slble to keep the little frail boat off the shoals and unsunken reefs of dis easel I mean also the doctor who gets the fragile skiff off the rocks and sandbars when stranded! How long would the baby live without the pilot?
 They would surely get tangled with snagS pretty early if there was no pilot to steer them clear of mental break CTS and shoals snags and fogs that lie in the pathway of the minds progress Were it not for the pilot we might as well send our children to an aband- onded fortress as to the public schools. They would never be able to educate themselves. Now this is true all the way from the Kindergarten to the col lege. The university student needs piloting just as much as the primary scholar. Call him teacher tutor, in structor, professor ,or what you will, | his business is to pilot the raw student over the rough sea of the mental life.
 The pilot is needed in all the affairs of life because we cannot get along 1 without him. Without the pilot the ship would never itself float into a ! safe harbor, but into the dangerous 1, seas. The little babe without mother i and doctor would soon be stranded ! The boy leaving home needs a pilot to | save him from the shoals that make | his pathway narrow.
 You and l, my brother are crossing 1 this great Atlantic of life. It is not | always calm, neither is it always rag l ing. But the journey as a whole is 1 designed to fit us for the life beyond. ] I have a heaven in view that I want l to reach by living seaworthy life l each day, and I have entrusted the i pilot by making this our daily prayer: 1 Jesus, Saviour, pilot me-"