Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-31
NEW LONDON PASTOR
 AT UNION SERVICE Rev. Edward M. Chapman Preached Sunday Morning at Broadway Church

At the Union service held Sunday morning at the Broadway Congrega- tional church the Rev. Edward M Chapman of New London OccuUied the pulpit. He took for his text the sec ond chapter of Relations. part of lhe seventh verse-tO him that Overcom- eth will I give to eat of the tree of life
 This message of the Spirit was the to the church of Ephesus, a church like yours and mine, composed of all sorts and conditions of men and sub iect to the same faults and imperfec- tiOns. Doubtless at that time there were the same tendencies to be luke warm and critical and wavering in faith and allegiance to the church But this little was writeitablec... But this letter was written to the An gel of the church for this church had an angel.
 The Angel of the Church.
 Now in these days we are apt to be little scepticaI in regard to an- gels except in the abstract But it meant then, $ it does now. the better self of the church. We appeal to peo- pie in very much the same way in urging a child or a friend to exert himself to overcome his bad temper or his selfshness or whatever may be his besetting sin.
 This better self was very much in the church at Ephesus although hampered.
 Now this message sent to the church so long ago means just as much to the church today as it did then. How can we apply it to today's work and needs
 Two Sorts of Temptation.
 Let us take it into our every day life. Most of us going forth to work every day have temptations of two sorts. The first to dishonesty in some form. To many of us actual bare face dishonesty is no temptation, but the subtle temptation to take ad- vantage of our customer or neighbOrs within the bounds of safety but not or honor is there. The fact thai we know some of them will get the best of OuS if they can offer the temp tatton of taking some advantage of them. How many people we see ev- cry day cheating the railways. The es us to be a little lax in our atti- tude toward them. And we are all familiar with the evasion of our cus- toms system. Although we may feel that it is unjust and faulty sure ly we do not wish to lower ourselves and take advantage in so dishonest a manner. Nothing can compensate for the loss of our self respect when we do these things.
 There is another temptation which aSSalIS us all. The tendency to de- spise the material we have to work with and the conditions in which we work.
 The Life Which overcomes.
 To men the daily facing of the bur- dens of business and the fact of grow ing old without much progress mad Is disheartening in the extreme. To many women the hum-dru routine of house work and perhaps a restrict ed view of life seems intolerable. It all seems so useless and so little is accomplished. We beIittIe our life. To stamp the perishabIe with the iIn- perishable worth should be our aim Often we see Q life lived in narrow surroundings, filled with care, yet seems full. We may think 1t was due to @ contented spirit, but 1t was really 0 life which overcame. It had not man ythings in It's life but it had accomplished,
 The things Of our life lie all about and ahead Of us to be put together like gigantic picture puzzled bit of aRl- bition, Q half of e burden. tears and laughter. If we but turn 1t over we can aea more clearly the figure of 0 man in Gods own lmage-to do and be and walk In Gods way.