Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-08

GEORGE SHERWOOD EDDY..
 With an attendance of nearly 900 the Y. M c. A. held its annual anni- versary service in the Davis theatre on Sunday evening at 7.3O o'clock. During the arrival of the audience Swahn's orchestra rendered a. concert program. Seated on the stage were James l.. Case, president of the asso- citation, General Secretary Edwin E1ills George Sherwood Eddy, the speaker ham, rector of Christ Episcopal church, Rev. Edward $. Worcester, pastor of Broadway Congregational church, Rev. Frederick w. Coleman, pastor of Trinity Methodist Episco- pal church. and Rev. George II. Strouse. pastor of the First Baptist church.
 The service opened at 7.30 o'clock with the Doxology and the invocation was pronounced by Rev. George H. Edward $. Worcester offered prayer. The Scripture selection was read by Rev. F. w. Coleman and the anthem was rendered by a chorus of men.
 President James L.. Case then de- livered an address in which he spoke of the work the local association has done since it's inception ,Sl years ago. followed with his report of the years work. During the offertory Al Craig Taylor rendered in fine voice, Open the Gates of the Temple.
 The speaker of the evening, George Sherwood Eddy, was presented by President Case.
 As I heard your president tell of the thirty one years of the history of the Norwich Association my mind went back over the history of the whole l Soi MVs FSS1y in 1liG T1- ing words. Seventy-two years ago the first association was organized with 1 twelve members. You had educational classes for many during the past year but they were only part of S4.00o who had not the advantages of col i1ege education. You had one hundred and fifty members in your boys de- partment, but they were only a part of one hundred thousand boys in the '. 1 M. c. A. I thank God for the faith of those twelve men and the work they started
 i Fifty years ago the Y M. c. A. first entered this country. Thirty-o one years ago we sent our first foreign worker abroad.
 MT. Eddy said the present European ty for the Y. M. c. A. and he spoke oi
 the work the Y. M. c. A. is doing 1T
 the trenches and said that he, himself is going over there this summer tC carry on evangelistic work in the Brit ish army.
 Today all the prisons of Germany and Russia are open to us. said Mr
 Eddy. Turkey alone has closed hel
 prisons to us. The war has opened new doors of opportunity to us.
 More than 30 millions of men ar'
 mobilized in Europe. There is {
 daily loss of forty thousand killed anC
 wounded and taken prisoners. Thirty
 thousand dollars a minute is the cos
 of the war, $10O,000,000 a day. Are w
 not facing today the two greates wars of the world? This destructiv,
 war in Europe and the great con
 structive war of Christianity trying t, save the nations?
 There are one hundred millions O
 dollars a day for the destructive wa
 and less than one-third of that sum
 year for the constructive war.
 We enter no city, no province, ex
 cept at the unanimous call of tn
 church. We only go at the call of tn
 church to save the church. We go t win young men and boys to Jesu
 Christ, to train young men and boy for all around manhood, and to sem
 them out in service for the saving O
 other young men.
 I believe we have succeeded abroai
 because we have aimed at the whol : man. In the first twenty-five year i we hadn't won ten converts in China In fifty years we had won thousan
 converts. The Y. M. c. A went at tn
 call of the church to reach these me
 by a flank movement We had neI
 aim, we had new methods. We hay
 a physical line, we have a scientii ! line and we have the social line to wi | the confidence of these people. Then we have the moral approach l We go to offer them new basis fo 5 the moral life, and how it is welcomed And we have the religious approacl r1ysai4If1iraes ? have shown we can save the whol man. They are with us and we hay } their support: I believe there is l second reason why we have been abl a to serve the church and supplement fl g 1 work Because of our broad interde ! nominational approach to the classe
 abroad. I believe there is a third req a son; we have aimed at certain prejU ), diced classes. In those oriental na tions there are three classes. the o1 s ficials, the students and the bushes Q men Those three classes control th ,. oriental nations.
 :. MT. Eddy then dwelt at some Iengt n on the wonderful changes in Chin e since the Boxer uprising. Thank Go d for the changes in China, said Mir. Ed
 dy In 1900 they were killing oU
 Christians and today they are turnin to Jesus Christ. He then went on 1 tell of the religious meetings and B : ble classes in China. Thousands haI 7, attended the meetings ad hundred ' have become members of the Bib s classes. MT. Eddy also spoke Of tk
 great boom along the industrial lint = in China.
 e Our work is to win the leaders 1 . the church of Christ, he continue q Let me speak of the city where Nol t wich is working It is up near Peki e MT. Eddy then went on to tell of u . murder of Horace Pitkin who went 6 China in the interests of China. T ithat city Norwich is sustaining set O retary, said MT. Eddy, R. W. Clack vi
 has taken MT. Pitkin's place. Todd
 the door is open and Norwich is con
 pleting the work started by Pitki 4 :. ,r. 4i - . .ss s-n e 2,. ~