Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-24

Rev. Roy B. Guild, executive secre- tary of the committee on federated movement, gave very able and stir ring address on the betterment of the community Tuesday evening at the in- terchurcn meeting in the H. H. Osgood church. Rev. MT. Guild held the close attention of his audience throughout. There were many representatives of the churches in the city. and the ar arrangements were made by the Norwich Federation of Churches.
 Rev. Mir Guild said:
 It is a pleasure to me to come again to Norwich and speak. We are here this evening for one reason, and that is expressed in one word--commnnity the one word-community the test for good. Our churches are being test ed in this way. Today in our religious workings tGsere are all denominations and all are working for the betterment of the community. To bring out his point Rev MT. Guild told of four the oIogical seminaries in the west of diff ferent denominations who combined their forces.
 He told of a certain gentleman whom he met who was in strong favor of union religion and when asked about 1t he said: have been watching Cana dians boarding transports going to join the British army, and they had the g1int in their eye, and wondered if when the church calls them they would respond so readily as they have for the king.
 Have you been watching the process of recruiting men for the United States army, of how extensively they adver- 1 tise to get the best men2 ThY average 1 cost per recruit is about $50. Why is 1t so difficult to get young men to joir the United States army? Because I IL Il. s-a- s.. O l American young men do not want tC sit around doing nothing. Suppose WI are in need of a million men because 1 there was real work to do. How 1onE l would 1t take to raise this million men It would not take long. Why, becausC l there is something to do for the coun. 1 try. Is it possible that this $ the req. | son why we do not recruit in thu c1urch-because there is not real task for men to do? We have got to, il some way or other, make the enem! show its head. There are forces O evil entrenched in our cities which art We start 10o boys in our sunda! schools. and how many 20 years late go to church? Only 9 per cent. Peo pie ask why we lose the other 75 pc cent. Because there are workint Rev. MT. Guild spoke of a survey ant i investigation of the schools of a cer tain city where it was found that block and a half away from the higl l stS.ooI a red light district prevailed and the city officials were notified.
 Social Evil Spreading.
 I was in Lexington, Ky, only las week, and that city has had all the by products of evil. A few men hay 1 banded themselves together and vii not give up until the evil is eliminated The greatest progress along the line of social evil are being made today said Rev. Ir. Guild. It has been foun. out by study that the spreading 0 evil has made it worse and that tre mendous fights have been won aloni the lines in the city of Atlanta, wtler tkey have board of strategy.
 i Rev. MT. Guild told of the tremendou power of the press and of the impor
 tapce of the press in community an
 church work. In Indianapolis a, grou of men went to the owner of one of tn I leading dailies for the purpose of buy
 ing space in order to send the mes
 sage of the church to more people. Tn
 owner readily made them a propositio
 of devoting an entire page every Sat
 urday, providing they edited it. Bu
 igle page he offered was one of mino
 importance. The committee wante