Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-18

it's inspiring spirit. it's courage, it's un- calculating devotion.
 The war has brought no essential change to Germany. so far as we may discern.
 But France has been born again. A new life has come to her under the stress of this supreme emergency. The France of today is republic, not only as regards the form of her po- 1itical institutions, but in her spirit. She is no longer a country made up of detached, self-centered individual ists. Her disciplined citizens are consecrated to noble ideals of free dom and they hold those ideals so precious, they stand together, a unit ed people. more closely knit than any other nation in the world, determined in defense of the sacred principles of the commonwealth to give their blood to the last man.
 In England, the transformation has that not yet has the passion of hero- ism taken complete possession of the hearts of her people,. But the change has come, fer insular pride has dis apeared,, and with it the smug con- fidence which too long has character ized her attitude toward continental disputes.
 Our thought turns to America, the pioneer os democracy, earliest among the nations to build it's political insti- tutions upon the principle that .he welfare of the people is the supreme great days brought to America? Have we been quick to grasp the meaning of the searching discipline of these terrible years? From: our place of prosperous security we have looked across the sea to war-distracted fighting for it's life. Do we realize that everywhere and always democracy | must figat for it's life? If of all forms of government it is the noblest, our own experience here ir America should teach us that it is the firm most diff dcult of realization. And the mainte- nance of the high ideals of democracy | is most arduouS under precisely the conditions which have obtained here ir | America since '65. Tke Civil war pre- claims, and, under great leadership, the I battles of freedom were fought witt ! superb devotion. Those grim days were followed by a very remarkable
 industrial and commercial expansion
 Never before and in no other land have | the gains of industry been so large ar here in America during the last hal
 century. Our increase in wealth ha: been unprecedented. Who would
 claim that the advance in spiritua
 earnestness and political integrity La! been commensurate?
 | A New Law of Life.
 By the unseen but irresistible migh of His providence God has establishes for men n one day a new law of life the expression of the new relationship
 men sustain to one another There il
 no place for a narrow selfish individ ualism, for we are bound together, il our hopes, our aspirations, ou achievements. by the ties of interde pendence. No man ard no communit, lean live prosperously if it holds il light regard the interests of others We have exalted the claims of democ racy because of its guaranty of free
 dom to the individual. But the es sence of democracy is cooperation
 The glory of citizenship ill a republi
 must more and more clearly be seer in the fact that it entities a man t share in the life of the commonwealth to share in it's prosperity, but no les
 fully to share in the tolls and sacri
 fees demanded for tha maintenance o so high an ideal. With all my hear
 I am looking for evidence that prosper lesson this war has taught to our sis ter nations beyond fhe sea
 It has not come-the new life Ameri
 ca needs, larger, finer, more Generou! . Is it coming? Our people are capabI of devotion deep, calm, engrossine that shall lift them above the lo1 [, level of a petty, selfish commeccialisn Is it coming, this moral revival tha shall enable our citizens to perceiv
 the nearing Of democracy, and inspir them to undertake with fresh courag ] and unfaltering determination tn , realization of the splendid ideals (
 the fathers.
 Refreshments were served in tn
 dining room, followed by a social hou