Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-14
FOUR MEN DEBATED
 BEFORE CITY BIBLE GLASS.
On Question, Resolved, That Success
 full Business Man Can Be Chris

full Business Man Can Be Chris
 tian.
 In the departure from regular study of the Sunday school lessons. the City Bible class for men at the Central Baptist church, had a debate on2 Sun day at it's meeting at noon, the sub ject for debate being, Resolved, that successful business man can be a Christian Interest in the special fea- ture resulted in an extra large attend ance as there were 153 present report ed by Secretary Edward T. Messing CT.
 The pastor of the church, Rev. J. B. Slocum, who is leader of the class. ad- dressed breif, but cordial words of welcoSle to the visitors present and prayer was offered by Rev. B. c. TuI- lar, of Brooklyn, N. T., who was one of these. Rev. Mir. Tullar also ex- pressed his pleasure at attending the session and spoke in commendation of Pastor Slocum whom he had known in Brooklyn.
 After a selection by the church quartette, which had led in the sing ing of several hymns, the debate was taken up, Senator r-elect John H. He asserted that there were numer ous examples to show that the men most successful in business life have been Christians and he cited some of | IQ6 DCSl knOWn names III A1QeI1CdIl business life in support of this. Any man who conducts a successful bus | mess as a Christian, he said, is bound | to attract the patronage. God gave the law for conducting business many | centuries ago and it has not changed, for he said 'sThou shalt not have di- vers weights and measures, but thou l shalt have a perfect and just meas ure that thy days may be heightened I in land"
 Attorney Arthur F. Libby was the l first speaker for the negative side of the debate. In the popular mind the l idea of success, he said, was the num- Der of figures a man could write aft | CT the dollar mark on his check. an6 he claimed that there were three req
 sons. why successful business mar l could not be a Christian. One was l that in rush and competition, one di6 1 not have timc to be a Christian; an other, that America was dollar mal
 and in the case of the man who mass es a fortune the public is inclined tC | forget the means by which it has beer l arrived at in their admiration of thu
 result. A third reason was the dua standard of morality as applied to tht business life, by which man would
 do things in a business enterpris,
 that he would never thing of doing il
 his private life.
 General Secretary Edwin Hill of tn
 Y. M. c. A. made the second argumen
 for the affirmative, beginning by say
 ing that he thought all would agre
 that if a man could be a Christian il | political life he could be a Christian | anywhere. He quoted President Will l sons words in his inaugural address | Men, this is not day of triumpS
 but a day of dedication" Whether w 1 agree with the president in politics o l not, said Mir. dill, we must acknowl
 edge ths< he is a great man of God
 Today success is measured more tha-
 ever by character and not by dollars
 and though many men have becom
 millionaires they have yet retaines
 mean that the Christian is a perfec man.
 He named a number of well know heads of big business, who are dis
 tingulshed for the Christian principle
 and read the names of several success l. ful business men, which had been ser
 to him by Waterman R. Burnham, wh ? were also notable for their Christia
 principle and acts.
 The concluding argument for tn 9 negative was by Harry B. Ford, wh . claimed that if the successful busi ness man did unto others as he woul have them do unto him, he would giV l them all he had. He affimed ths 9 there was not a successful bushes n man in the United States who was a absolute Christian, and said that pr 1 vate and Public morals as applied t business life are different Some ( Q the political leaders who have dor e the most harm through their polite: l. moves are blameless in their priyai D life.
 : An expression of opinion from u t class after the debate favored the al n hrmattve side of the question.