Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-20
FAIR, CONTINUED COLD
 TODAY AND TOMORROW

In nearly all Lne CHuL CAeS VI 4N0A "-NAA and vicinity special sermons were deliver ed at the Sunday services in recognition of Civic Sunday. Large congregations were the rule and the ministers in their sermons paid particular attention to the importance of the present campaign or the Norwich Chamber of Commerce, in relation to the civic and moral welfare of the city.
 Civic Sunday was observed in accord ance with the recent action Of the clergy of Norwich and the proclamation issued by His Honor Mayor Herbert M. Lerou. Park Congregational Church
 At Park Congregational church, the pastor, Rev. Samuel H. Howe D. D, preached a special sermon at the Sunday morning service Rev. Dr. Howe LOOK ms text from Rev. 21, saw the holy city. coming down from God out or heaNeh' prepared, adorned.
 Our city's chamber of commerce wins our full sympathy when it sets itself to create ethical conditions which make the city safe and efficient for making men, said Rev. Dr. Howe during the course of his sermon. A synopsis of the sermon follows:
 In these closing chapters of the Bible we have a vision, a revelation of the cul- imitation and goal of all human history. History begins with a garden, it ends with a city The city is thus the full eXpres- sion of highly organized life. AS hu- man life increases in complexity 1t tends to organization through association and combination.
 The city presents us with the most com ,f results. The detached force of the indi- vidual must be combined and concen- | trated with that of a multitude of men to i get it's carrying power.
 Then the city is the scene of the most i intensive and varied activities. This is | due not wholly to the competitive strug- gle but to the complication of industrial business and social life, which alone can bring out the full force of personality. | Tho city must take the initiative in all ! the great movements of society the na- tion's business, it's national policies it's edu1. tional and cultural enterprises. It stimulates the genius of a nations in | ventors it's art. it's literature It gathers the wealth which finds opportunity for l the development of all the higher powers | of the mind. It stands behind all those | forces which promote the moral social
 
 : Then cities are the greats distributing centers for all those essential products which are so necessary to the life of the world a fact that admits the ethical and
 spiritual element in a larger sense thar ! we commonly admit.
 Then the city gathers and distributes in another sense. It organizes, concen-
 trates and d'sseminates the best of tht | ethical life of mankind or the worst. Tho
 city is the deposit of the best or the rneanest in human nature. Life rises tt
 it's full affluAnce of splendor in the citie,
 or it sinks nearest to beasthood. The ty can be the brightest or the saddest SD
 on the earth.
 The increase of material prosperity is
 not the stimulative force to the best of .
 city's life or a restraint upon it's worst
 Appeal must be made to higher sources O
 hel. The chief business of a city's lift
 is not the increase of it's population O.
 the stimulation of it's business. enterprises important as they are, but the making o
 mon, the improvement of it's citizenry
 Not the building of mills alone, but tn
 building of character.
 It is one of the most enheartening sigh+ : on tht horizon that the reorganize
 chambers of commerce of the countr,
 are sensing this fact and are adding t
 their objective of moterial prosperity tn spiritual uplife of their cities c;tizenshir
 They have added word of trenendou
 significance in the term Spiritual Wel
 fare" Our cfty's chamber of commerc s wins our full sympathy when it sets ii
 self to create ethical conditions whic
 make the city safe and efficient for mak ing mdn
 Why should we not welcome this ne,
 departure and aid our chamber of con f merce in it's attempt to make this cit fomons. not only for it's beauty and if l industrial prosperity, but for it's biq
 standard of ethical behaviour. and for fl,
 number of high quality of it's citizens wb
 shall labor for the descent out of heave 2 Of the city when John say as the culnoir
 atton and c'imaxi of the worlds best hi, r tory-a Norwich that shall be a yeritab,
 City of God. 5 bmted Congreg gational Church. Il The United Congregational church common with the other churches of tt u city observed Civic Sunday yesterda
 when a special sermon was delivered , tne morning service by Rev Alexand, q H. ADoott' pastor of the church. Re . MT. Abbott's sermon tonic was T1 - Cords of the City. and his text was Is. : lah 54:2, Enlarge the place of +b 5 tent and let them stretch forth the cu r. talns of thy habitations. Spare moi ! lengthen thy cords and strengthen fl l. stakes u
 Rev. MT. Abbott's sermon dealt wi
 CNlc Righteousness and was heard wi
 oeep interest by the large congregatic
 present.
 First Baptist Church. si The topic of the civic sermon at fl % morning service at the First Banti L. church was A Citizen of No Mean C,it S Acts 2l:39. The sermon was deliver, IS by the pastor, Rev. George Hen i- Strouse, who spoke in part as follows Q On any occasion-all the time ar IS everywhere We desire to say with Pau e l am a citizen of no mean city" ( is perhaps in more positive way: I h $ long to Norwich of which I am inst h proud. '4S' V The city to which Paul referred w Ie Iarsus' the capital of Cilicia. This ri in was distinguished for it's culture and al schools and on it's coins it bore FtI - City. 0"p4' r. Xenophon describes it as a great a, n. hourishing city and Strabo speaks r. IL as a seat of learning and science al 1t the rival of Athens and Alexandria. Pa v was proud to belong to this city. If Scott beautifully sings: Breath d there a man with soul so dead. wi