New Britain herald., 1922-02-10
BETTER LIVING, IS
 SUBJECT OF TALK
Yale '. M. C. A. Worker Ad-
 dresses Highly Club Members

Sherwood s. Day, last evening gave one of the best talks which members of the High-Y club have heard this year, His subject was; Changing from living on the defensive to living on the offensive"
 He said that just before he came to New Britain last night he stopped at | Wesleyan, where he called on Il young friend a big football player. and 1t is just lately that he has received dope" on himself. He has begun saving his money and he finds that he is a lot better off for it. He told Mir, Day that what is needed today are. "Fclows; fellows who are not just hat racks or fashion plates, but real fellows"
 Mir. Day then told of his own eX- perience Of living on the defensive,
 Temptation would come along: he didn't know where it was coming | from next. His whole attitude used 10 be to duck away from it. A bad | thought would come along and he would say to himself; "I mustn't think | that" After a while he would won der what it was that he shouldn't think and the train of thoughts would he going around in a circle. He hadn't learned the secret of life. he said.
 Now he has discovered the game The bad thought comes along and in stead of fighting 1t he laughs at it. He used 10 fight them, but now he laughs at evil thoughts, meanwhile asking God to help him.
 'lsut God cannot help us do things unless we help other fellows. If we desire His help we must also help the other boy who is less fortunate.
 The speaker then named five words beginning with c." which may help a fellow in turning from the defensive to the offensive. They are: Con fidence confession. conviction, con version and continuance.
 "You cannot help another fellow unless you have confidence in him and he in you," he said, and added: "confession is the point when one can tell one friend above all others any thing in his life. Conversation comes when fellow gets to the place where he is willing 10 take chance with God, If we are going to get any Joy out Of religion we must clean up the mean and unfair things that we have done" the speaker said
 Continuance means keeping up work after once started. Mir. Day told of a man who had just come back from France with the army. He realized that his life had not been just what it should have been. One day he came to the full realization of the fact through passage in the Bible. He became a good, upright fellow, but he was not contented with inst being good himself and he de- voted two hours every evening to going around and seeing fellows at college and telling them his own ex- periences. He remembered three other fellows who had chummed with him while over seas. and they had the best. He went to Cornell, where they were and talked to them, sue ceeded in changing their lives. Be fore we can help others to become better we must become better our selves, he declared.
 In conclusion. he said that if two or three High schools boys got together like that, telling the others everything and helping each other along. they could change things a great deal. '"rhe High schools need cleaning up and a group of fellows like that could help a great deal.
 sherry" Day, as he is called, occu- pies the position of academic secre- t.r,, or Yalc Y M C. A. He is a graduate of Yale and of the Hartford Theological Seminary. In lndla ne he was engaged in Y. M. C. A. "ork for about three years and nc also worked among the young men of China and Japan with Sherwood Eddy and Frank Buchman.