Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-30
PITTSBURGH SPEAKER AT
 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

At the First Baptist church Sunday the morning service was given to an address by Mrs. Charles Wiley, who is one of the four minute speakers in her home town, Pittsburgh, Penn and represented the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense. In fe* address Sunday morning Mrs. Wiley empha- sized Conservation ard Morale" speaking, earnestly, Interestingly and convinoingly, saying in part:
 Men and women, November il, 1918, r1arkes the end of a war won by the cleanest army of men the world has ever known. The American fighting man, individually and collectively, is the cleanest, finest, most splendid sol dier in the world. Because from their early boyhood, from the time they i were taught by you, their mothers, to l say Now I lay me down\to sleep 1 they have been irnbued with Christian 1 principal founded on the Brotherhood l Doctrine Of Christ
 ] Christ in His divine wisdom did not i see fit te reach out and settle the war 1 without our efforts and cur sacrifice. l Tlr mere signing of the arInistice must ] not mean the ceasing of OFT efforts, 1 as God seedctt4 our help in the war he needs our help in the reconstruction.
 The war was not a mere matter of 1 territory. Four years ago when Ger 1 many invaded Belgium and the Bel gium people defended for one fiery hour the fortress. the gateway of her
 sister, France, and for one hour held the Black Eagles back and Liege fell Ind then Brussels the spirit of the Belgium people was not crushed. Ii 1 lived on beautifully and white and clean. And if four months ago before the battle of Chateau Thierry our boys l1aN not been in France and Paris ha6 fallen, and undoubtedly it would have
 the spirit of the French people would
 not have f1inched. And if the ar1nis- tice had not been signed and the al
 lied armies had pushed on and on in.
 to Belgium, Germany would not havt
 been conquered without tho defeat O
 the military power that existed il Germany then and is srnouldering il Germany today.
 T People of northern France. Belgium , Servfa and Armenia are hungry Men and women do you know WIla i, it means to be-HungTy?
 After success comes succor Ther'
 is more food needed in Europe thi. year than there was last year and ou
 harTests are no greater. The answe
 lies ir your homes and your hearts. Napoleon said of the word "Aforale
 Tt is in war time a factcr as is thre, to one" Our men as the army Of oc cupation face all the conditions De culiar to continental life. You hea CT thousands of men landed in Nev York every week. Compare thos thouands with the several millions 1 sent abroad and you see what a larg l proportion of your men remain il
 Europe. Their morale depends large , ly upon the morale of we who remai] | at home.
 l We are faccng year unprecedentet Tn history. It is for us to equal il
 our efforts in the coming year. tn r efforts Of our men who have made tn supreme sacrifice for you and for me , We must not glorify ourselves tot
 much. We have given only Of luxurie , where our allies have given of neces sites. We as Americans must giv i of necessities in 1919. ~
 , The great brunt of the war we mus F honestly adn5:t has fallen on Grea
 Britain, God bless her sacrifice an on Italy. who fought the war O . snows hitherto virgin 10 the foot c
 man.
 ; Of France, we say nothing. France i ! more than T country It is d spirit. I
 is with the ut!nost~ reverence we men a tior her name.
 Two years ago I had the privileg 1 of working with Belgium refugees an l being with them for several months i [ this country in hesalf oi the Red Cros, g 1 l was with women and children an I old men who saw the things and sub = mitted to the thing of which you hay t read with absolute horror. I kno, Q those things are true. Thousands ( r other women. children and old. mel
 as they art, need your food and you s help today.
 s Germany said before we entered tn s i war, There are two races of peopl f the feminine race and masculine rat 4 and we are the masculine line and " E shall rise in our power ard our dom
 finance and crush the feminine race = They attempted to prove their thec S " and Kiplings little saving wa c proven that ''The female of the specie q is more deadly than the rnaIe.'' q Some one has said tkat some da
 there will be picture painted of e smiling woman and it will be labelt h sorrow" The "F'er.ule of tf 2 species are the mothers If the wor
 and I, who know how a woman's hea
 can ache that despite the sorrow
 our hearts w. will smile and give o1 support, our bravery and our sacrific M 1 to a bruised and broker world. as V l. gave it to the small sons whi ha7 a proven so beautifully that they a: to men. And as a Christian people livi1 g. in a nation founded on the prfncipa j. of Christ, we must work to the ut d mate air of 6 Christian world