Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-16
SPOKE AT RICHMOND
 RADIATOR SHOP MEETING. Rev. c. H. Ricketts Addressed Work CTS There at the Noon Hour.

At a very attentive and interesting shop meeting held at the Richmond Radiator company plant at noon We'd nesday under the auspices of the Y NJ c. A.. Rev. c. H. Ricketts spoke to the men on The Abundant Life. Mrs. L. o. Potter. accompanied by Miss Leti- tia Kramer. sang several pressing solos.
 In part, Rev. Mir. Ricketts said:
 We have just been celebrating an other festival of the resurrection, and must all of us be more or less inn pressed with what the season means Easter Sunday stands for life in it's higher and richer possibilities. Inc whole idea is that of the life that has been made triumphant over death.
 It seems to me that a distinction ought to be made between the mere possession of life and life in abund poor consumptive and the athlete or the dullaTd and the scholar. This idea was in the mind of Christ when he said: T am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly"
 rate,' questioned the speaker, or are We filling our little sphere from cen ter to circumference with the largest amount and richest quality of life pos sible?
 Knowledge Indispensable.
 IS there a man m this WOlkSHop satisfied to know just enough about tho iron business to hold his job down? If so, that man isn't justified in having just a Smattering of know ledge of this business. Strikes will dl- minish just in proportion as men grip their work. Knowledge is indispensa- ble-ca pital must have it, or it is down and out. There is but one way to make a mark in this iron business, and that is to show out every day the iron atoms in your own blood. There is no honorable trade under heaven in which a man may not exercise and by exercise enjoy the abundant life.
 Skim Milk and Cream.
 Now what is true of the workshop is true of school life in all grades. Stu dents are not enjoying the abundant life as they might because they are not willing to pay the price. Too many boys go to college just to have good time. Studying only enough to keep in and striving to be honor men is the difference between skim milk and cream. To have the abundant life of fered us only to be spurned means that the penalty will have to be paid some day with interest. The Almighty is never mocked-not even by college students-''for whatsoever d nan soweth that shall he also reap
 Nature teaches us the great lesson of abundance It is not a few blades of grass but the earth carpeted with verdure; not few leaves but foliage; not a few flowers but flora; not here and there a tree but orchards. groves, forests, not one sound hut sympho- nies. It is everywhere life in abund- ance.
 We ought also make more of our churches. The church is Une place where spirituality is administered and the cold -blooded manner in which Protestants turn down their churches is the one outstanding disgrace of Christendom. I say it deliberately, if business men went back on their promises as Protestants go back on their church covenants, they would be branded as crooks and shysters. The Almighty offers US the abundant life through his church, and we cannot turn the Almighty down in his holy temple without paying the penalty to the utmost farthing.