Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-30
SECRETARY HILL IS
 SPEAKER ON CITIZENSHIP

Sixty-five sailors and soldiers en- Joyed the home cooked breakfast at the '. M. c. A, Sunday morning at s.SO o'clock. As usual the women of the auxiliary and several young ladies dld the serving, and as usual the fel- LOWS indicated their real appreciation in no uncertain way.
 The speaker scheduled for a brief address Was ufiavoidably detained and Secretary Edwin Hill gave a ten min ute talk on the subject of Citizenship. The speaker among other things said :
 Men, l am sure we are all interested in the subject of citizenship. One of the men assisting in the work on the questionnaires at the city hall was helping man from Poland the other day and when asked the question of what country are you a citizen ?'' the foreigner said: "Of no country .'' The man assisting him insisted that he must be citizen of Russia, whereupon the foreigner said: No we are not citizens there; we are just people, How. unlike. Russia is our own Ameri- ca; here where the poorest man may be just as much a citizen as the rich est.
 We often say that a man cannot be
 
 time, and we all feel that unless a man living in this country thinks much more of America than he does of the country from which he came, he had l better go back nome.
 There is, however, a sense in which 1 every man can be citizen of tive countries at the same time: one car 1 be at once g. citizen of America and g citizen of heaven. We read in the Great Book that Christians citizen ship is in heaven; this is really true and every man who lives the clean l pure true life enjoys dual citizen. ship. It is not easy to do the things l that belong to true citizenship, bu the hard things are the things tha l develop us most. It is not easy t( face the shot and shell of the enemy but the rank and file of our boys if the service are willing to do it, and | am sure you share the courage of al l the brave fellows lover there" Som, of our Norwich boys have been will ing to face these death dealing missile and have already paid the price 0 their lives; many others are willing t do the same.
 While you young men are in tn
 service and away from all home re
 strairts if is very hard to do tn 1 lHlASS that you kn0W mother, 1atAel
 sister, brother and friends want an
 expect you to do. but I am convince
 that the vast majority of the fellow
 in our army ard navy are r1easurin , up in this respect, and you are sayin no when you are urged to drink an , you are more and more turning th deaf ear to the impure women wh would lead you down to ruin. I sa7
 a letter recently taken from tn |. pocket of a brave American soldier i { France who had been shot to pieces ,, it was badly soiled and somewha torn from being long in his pocket I that letter the young lady had write
 that she was lonely for the one sh
 loved but, she wrote. T would nc
 have you anywhere but where you ar . doing your full duty. Since you wrot
 that you were going up into the fror line trenches I have been particular sad: I am sorry you have to go ther
 but though I am very sad about it, l want you to be just where you al serving your country" This is th g type of patriotism the folks at hon : have and this is the same kind ( : patriotism that fills your hearts an r the hearts of your comrades "ovt
 there" believe you are ready 1 } do the hard thing in the physical bat
 lie and also the hard thing in tt
 moral battle. and thus you will | citizens of earth and heaven at tt v same time.