Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-25
ROSE CRON CEREMONIAL FEAST

This is a wonderfully solemn hour. As I have sat here I have been thrilled to my innermost being. I have thought what is our greatest asset, and have come to the ultimate conclusion that it is personality. Personality that is a coor- dination of intelligence love and will, the power to know, the power to love and the power to choose. The man who is I long on intelligence and short on af- lection and will Is no man for this order or in any walk of life. He leaves a trail behind him that can easily be followed The man who is long on affection and short on intelligence and power is also no man for he is soft and without any 1 stabilizing power. The man who is long on will and short on intelligence and af- lection is stubborn and is apt to mistake his prejudice for his principles. I have known men of these types and when they are in the church they lock the chariot wheels of Christianity. But the man who has a perfect coordination of these three powers is the man who does things to make the world better place to live T in. He is a builder in Gods great plan. I We also find in this world three types of men, first the master of reality or the man who sails second, the slaves of re- ality or those who drift; last the dupes
 of unreality or thoses who neither sail nor drift but simply sink If you would
 wish to- see the difference between the first and second classes; simply compare } Washington and Lincoln with Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, Washington
 and Lincoln were the masters of reality. those who sailed and who had a perfect | coordination of the three powers of per sonality. The other two were slaves of reality with unbalanced powers. The : dupes are those who change their minds
 with. the slightest provocation.
 Of this last class is the revolutionary socialist who is the most unheroic thing on earth. Heaven is the line of greatest advantage, but hell is the fine of least resistance. Europe has been followiIg g ! he line of least resistance for some years
 before the war and some parts are foi-
 owing it now. 1 call upon you, everyone | n the nation, to recognize the crisis l through which we are passing, a crisis greater than the Marne. I call upon you
 ,o stand bysyour country and this docu-
 nent in which is inculcated all the ideals
 of a great nation and for which hundreds
 of thousands, the Heroic Dead, have
 given their lives for you and your na- . ions Constitution.
 I have yet to meet the man who can show me how we can gut loose from these l deals in this Constitution and survive
 1t cannot be done and anyone who says
 it can and breaches it belongs in the
 iupe class. This. doctrine that does away ! with the Constitution is evil and I hate it
 Do you realize there cannot be service
 without ideals. It is better to be good
 than smart and it is better to be right
 ,ous than rich. True ideals mean service
 unto death. That only matters which i;
 eternal This is a truth that cannot b'
 lenied and entreat you, realize it. W, abor without rest, suffer without conso ] ation and died without honor. I failet Fl put those boys who sleep in Flanders dit not fail. May God bless you. You and
 meet as strangers tonight, but we'll. mee
 by and by where we will know each, il
 the presence of God. May God come t
 you and you know God.
 & Two Other Addresses.
 After Rev. pr. Giles talk, the beautiful
 service sof the mystic banquet was carrie }" out after which Rev. John Smith Lowe e, D.D., of Boston, Massy made an addres g on The Three Ships. He brought befor 'e his. audience the idea of citizenship, fel n. lowship and leadership. a
 Fl Rev. J. Romeyn Danforth of New Lon II don was the last speaker of the service
 Rev. Danforth's address was on Tn T. Great Companionship in which he sai KS that Gods companionship is the greates n- companionship in time and eternity. IT, With the extinguishing of the light Ii thei chapter, was closed and dismissed 1 Ai denote the passing into the Great Beyon