Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-20
PASTORS ON MERCHANTS WEEK
Norwich Business Mems Plan Makes Theme for Pulpit Ut Strength of the City Its New Character- Ssrmons by Rev. Dr. g. H. Hows, Rev. Dr. J. B. Socum and Rev. F. w. Coleman.

things. but WnO, with gen eroSity, has enriched and deepened the channels of helpful ministr2tion. We wish We could have known the fuII ! greatness of heart and mind of the man, that we could have voiced in full chorus our admiration and gratitude
 Militant Righteousness.
 The second of Winston Churchiirs definitions of the New Patriotism IS militant righteousness. If nations travel on their morality. so Goes the city If the city tolerates evil, or or ganizes it into it's corporate life. 1t is because the individual citizen wants it so The worthy citizen is a cru sader in chain armor; the determined foe of the forces that generate vice and perpetuate poverty. Whatever lays the lure of temptation on men, or corrupts youth, or enslaves strong structive habit. or holds households down in poverty and squaIor, is the legitimate target of the true cTOzens Pythian arrow. He will never be the apclogist for or the defender Of or ganized evil, no matter what business interests are involved
 importance of High Ideals. But rniIitancy is not merely destruc- tive; it is substitutiVe- We have had lately in our country an overdoing Of the exploitation of modern vices, dragging into light every species of crime and vice. We are sur1elted with the gFucSoIne spectacle: but, aS & magazine writer has just been snow ing. it is not by loud beWailing over ] evils a nation can be bullts but i through TesolUte dwelling on high | ideals Better cherish like Plato,
 dreams of ideal republics than read 1 the proceedings of the police courts | and feast on the mess of garbage 1 served by much of the current journal 1 ism Whatsoever is pure, honest, love-
 ly and of good report, think of these
 The Wiser Methods.
 Do not invade the slumdon and vice haunts with bIudgeon, unless they are l ootrusiye and aggressive; but sup ! plant them with conditions that will | alleviate them. Go down to them with l sympathy and hopefulness that will l lift and elevate.
 | ''The sociai sphinx
 l Exacts a word at least
 | From each man standing on the side | of God'
 4 third characteristic of the New Patriotism Is openDindedness. Hos | pitality toward new things in city gov 1 ern1nent Nothing is piainer than that
 we are everywhere a-face with new 1 problems, requiring new methods and l measures
 Problems to Be Met.
 New questions are arising; social unrest and upheavals. New democra- ctes emerging. all humanity every where rising to throw oY the maEac2es l Of ages; and these questions are l thruEtinGZ themselves Into every form 1 of organized society. The government Of cities and countries is face to face
 with these new phases of modern life
 and cannot attempt the new task with
 the past's blood-rusty keys
 l Foe of ProsrsssiVensss.
 The deadly foe of all progressive
 citizenship ts the closed mind-cIosed al
 both ends: tnsistence on ancient pre- cedents. Nothing" said Ragehot, "ar
 Englishman resents like the pain of g
 new idea" Nothing we all resent like
 a big task; at least an unseihsh one ! We are easily discouraged. We are l always drumming on the pessiTnist key. We are diScouragers of others Sir George White imprisoned a mar l in Ladysmith. because he was a dis
 comager of his soldiers, perpetualls predicting disaster and defeat
 What Many Deserve.
 If he was wise. a lot of people ough to be behind the bars on Jail Hill!
 There is no insanity like that o , those who are turning ofhcialdom up 1 side down with any shift of the wind of politics. Fidelity, efficiency, sl1ouI' , ] come to their reward in city govern , raent, as elsewhere. and stay in serv - ice.
 Pessimiem is a blight in citizenshi,
 as elsewhere. The little garruIou 3 man can make an industrious stir f l puddlesf1 but we had better get ou 3 into the Atlantic where there is doon 3 for large ventures.
 The Broader Citizenship. 2 And then, if we are going to dis : cuss worthily our local citizenhip, W : have got to let ourselves out into tn 2 wider relationship of the country an the world. Our relations are country ; wide. We cannot get the range c l civic welfare without the backgrOun : | of the nation. We must have tn
 great nation to have the great city. Q We must lave great national ideal 3 ] we are going to have fine city ideals. Q We need to force the nation to ge = down to the practical needs of tn h people and we will make our locs '. task easier. Nations are in perpet t ual debate over questions of politice = policy, many of them vagaries, whil e they let the people languish in pow f erty and the unemployed sink int f anarchy.
 g The Wider Political Responsibility : An English statesman told tn = 1 House of Commons the other day tha !, England had wasted twenty-five year = in settling the Irish question and lt o the people degenerate and Ianguish = ! poverty and vice. And we take
 hand at that business in this cour
 try of debating endiessly question
 of doubtful utility. and far away fro1
 the necessities of the people and dOir T little to make any mans conditio U better or his outlook more hopefU -e And so I say, to take Q citizens pa D in provincial way we need to tai , Worthily our citizenship toward Il /, nation, that we may both better u = condition of our city and that lars unit the national life, of which V II are ourselves and integral part.
 In conclusion let me make applies
 ton of this subject to Business. W 5 need to get a full grip of the dignit =, and sacredness of all legitimate ar l. honorable business Religion oblft' "a rates the lines between the secular ar m sacred. Business Is Gods in intel
 nediary. The various businesses
 which men engage are dstribut1T
 1 centers for the necessities and u - adornnents of life God can only fes B. and clothe and govern the wOr d through these intsrrncdiaries. Farme = merchant, manufactures, banke ts teacher, professional man are God a. 'srniddlenen", without whom sociei -s would diSorgenizs and we would reve s- to harbarism, All business which d Lh grades and desnoils and beestializ ii, humanity should be driven out Of u sS community, but the business that al IL tributes the necessities of iifei ths 0 1e equations which make for the eFderi 'f life of the WeFid are sacred, a s saeF n nii ments, for God could not care for At control the world without them, Fl @ old surveyor in Middle March aeeept
 his calling as Gods work fer him. Al te business life legitimate and henoFab