The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-21
W. s. LACEY GIVEN
 TESTIMONIAL.
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 Goddard, George S. Hawley and Ed ward s. Smith for five years.
 The Trustees and Directors of the Association took this opportunity of surprising MT. and Mrs. W Seymour Lacy with a beautiful three piece set of silver in recognition of their ser vice to the Bridgeport Association during the 1-=st sixteen years
 Testimonial to Lacy
 General Secretary Lacy, after thinking the directors and trustees for the testimonial tendeerd him, made a nearnest plea for more vol unteer workers and for Q larger sphere of influence for them, adding: This association must have a large group of men consecrated to this sort of qhi-g in volunteer service That is wIrae we have been lacking in the Last few years No group of secretar1eS can do the work that should be done alone, but if you men without over burd ening yourselves will take some particular block of the work and make it gour own responsibility, this aSSo- and to an extent that we have never doue before"
 Colton's Address
 The practice of Christianity as an anGhote for the ills of the day was the theme of MT. COlton'S address, and he pointed out in eloquent terms the place the Y. M. c. A should fill in thiD program
 ODSl1ng MT COiIOn we are all aware that following the war thai America went into sort of re- actcDnary attitude and indu1ged it. self in mean spirit. The experiences of recent months are putting Amer ica out of this mood and praise God for it, because it wasn't a happy situItion for anybody concerned
 Referring to the effect of the war on she Y- M- c. A, he said: t'If any one has any notion that the war just aboTit wrecked the poor old Y-, he is indulging in a, notion as far from the facts as it is possible for the hu- mar mind 10 get"
 hiking as his text a sentence used by iDr. John R. Mott on his return froEl Europe shortly after the out break of the war: '"The foundations are heavine over there," Mir. Cotton paiTted a vivid picture of conditions abrEhd, especially in Russia, and de- clarrld that the war had changed malS things even in America adding: If your job looks like it did six years ago, you ought to be a worried man, There is sanething wrong with you.'
 Appeal to Religion.
 Continuing, Mr- Colton said: There Is nCEhtng which arrests my attention so pfEsistently since l came back from Rus Ia as what I would call signals of distress appealing to the ministry of rkhgion to meet the needs Of the day. These calls come from unex- pectTh quarters, from finance, indus try TEd politics" After quoting some of tJIese calls from trade papers. lead CTS q commerce and others, MT. Col ton said: We haven't thought of Hen1S Watterson as a religious teac5 ter. Yet at the close of his au- to ooid tyrapily he summed up those rich expe fences of his versatile life in thessr' words: Surely the future looks bBacd: enough, but it holds a hope, a singFs hope and one power only can arreat the descent and save us that is tb0 Christian religion
 ~vlhy are all these forces appealing to tile ministry of religion ?'' asked MT. Cotton and his answer waS- The outstanding face in the world today is that the great mass of conn mon men and everywhere have begun at orsce altogether to move in the di- rectten Of getting what they consider a fair share in the distribution Of the material things of the world.
 Common Men Into Their Own.
 "A man doesn't talk with many people who know what has happened in the world during the last six years to rfrlize hey are going to get ft- and