Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-20
GREENEVILLE
Rev. A. w. Burdon Speaks at the Fed erated Church-FuneraI of Mrs. Richard Duncan---Personals and Notes

At the Federated church Sunday morning Rev. A. W. Burdon spoke on The Men on tie Wat. At tine evening servico he took for i1is subject Aristo- crats, taking lis text from I Pet. 4-5, And when the Chief Shepard shall ap- pear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
 Rev. Mir. Burdon sGid in part:
 The crown always has been a sign of sovereignty: placing the one to whom it is given in a position of regal power.
 Tn the land of kings and queens the coronation is attended with pcnnp and dignity. Grace and splendor distin- guish it from common affairs
 There must also be distinctive qualities before the crown $ placed, and the scepter of rdlership gwen. the first of which is that of noble birth and q lireGge- of blue blood. In short, they must pe aristocfats of the realm. Thus St. Peter leads US up to the thought that mel. ey'rywnere are eli sible for crC WIT, hut he implies that a. vast difference will be found be- tween the one he speaks of and the crown men think of. By implication he says one is temporary thing, the other a permanent g.ory.
 One is held during a lifetime, then passed on to the next ;n line. The other is not limited by tinle but is held by it's wearer throughout all eter- nifty.
 One will corroGe and become luster- less; it is suhject to destruction and about cannot be destroyed. nor stolen. nor lose it's glorJ,, tor he has it, It fadeth not away.
 To take up our tkeme-Aristocrats We may be very democratic. but we are also very aristocratic: moreover, there 11nSnoI-sr o,,A hot and things satisfy this wish within us.
 To meet this wish we must know and see that it possesses a very definite quality
 In the Realm of Things.
 We find the aristocrat in stocks and bonds. They are those so many would like to own, yet so few can buy. They are conspicuoTs, because they are not subject to the fluctuations in the mart of trade. For they are protected by unlimited capital or by city, state or nation. Theirs is the quality of sta bility.
 To satisfy our demand for something out of tie common we have on some of the railroads the Millionaire special, the aristhcrat of trains. We may sheer at its rich appointments, and because it has the right of way, shake our inn potent hands after it's trailing cloud
  Of our mission or haste. But after all the reason we are not riding in it Is because the pocketbcok is weak The quality of tfat train is exclusive ness.
 It is a strong contradiction in bu- man nature that while it sneers at those things. it will not be contest without them.
 Did we search for the reason of this contradiction, and were we able to analyze the human mind it would be found that tfe soul was yearninsly reaching for that which 1t believes to be bigger than itself, or in other words this a-istocratic in man longing to be an aristocrat, not So much because of it's intrinsic value us that it has made no distinction between the material and the spiritual aristocrat, and though they fail in reaching the goal they know and can tell the difference between the true and false. l am not thinking of sanctimonious insincerity which smiles with the lips while there is frown on the heart; nor of the cold hshy look with the clamrny handshake; but Of men and women with the red blood of life pull sating through thei~ veins taking other men and women by the hand and say ing kind things because they are thinking kind things, and crowning the earth with the glory of their living. True and wholesome :n word and deed, /! loving men, for they are kinsmen; i bone of their bone. flesh of their flesh. Brothers in immortality as we'll as brothers in mortality and sin, and who