New Britain herald., 1922-02-27
I0lO MEN WELCOME
 REV. JOHN l. DAVIS
Big Attendance at EVeryman's Bible Class

One thousand and ten attended the session of the Everyman's Bible class yesterday morning and welcomed Rev. John J. Davis back to the class after his two weeks trip to Bermuda
 Mcmorized Poems of Guest
 During his trip Rev. Mir. Davis re- ceived as q gift a hound volume of the poems of Edgar Guest. The min ister memorized a list of those poems and adapted them in their order to the series of talk on psychology he has been giving. The topic of his ad- dress yesterday was. The Psychology of Success, as shown hy the Poems of Edgar A. Guest" /"
 Self Confidence
 "One of the first clements of sue cess is self confidence" he said in be- ginning his talk He advised his hear CTS not to he afraid of attempting something new. How do you meet your work each day? Are you fright cned by it?" Here he quoted poem by Guest. showing that failure comes from within and not from outside. Each man is responsible for his own future. man can accomplish any thing" he said. If he only will be- lieve he can do it." Here followed the poem about the man who was told thing couldn't he done, but who went ahead regardless and did it.
 Tt Couldn't Be Done"
 When we started this bible class" he said, there were many people who said we couldn't do it When we said we would have 500 members in five months they said it couldn't be done, but we accomplished it."
 Human Parasites,
 ITO be successful man must learn to fight opposition. No matter how many times he drops he is never down until he lies in the dust and re- fuses to get up again." the speaker said Speaking of charity work, he said if was better to do charity work among the kind of people who are willing to do what they can 10 help themselves, rather than to help those who simply live by charity alone, without ambition, hope or self re- spect.
 About Al Jennings
 Showing how a man can make him self what he wants to become, the minister told the story of Al Jen- nings, a lawyer of Oklahoma Jen- nings first fled from his home state for murder. having killed a. man in fight He shot several others while getting away and was himself shot four times. He joined a band of rough cowboys and became an outlaw. Years went by. He was pardoned by the state, became popular and ran for governor. later becoming a Baptist minister in the same state.
 The World Against Him
 The minister told of the type of people who cay the world is against them, holding them down. That poor man hasn't q chance, etc. He classified in this list bolshevists and anarchists To show that 1t is a wrong theory he quoted a poem, ask ing what chance Abraham Lincoln had when he started He showed how Benjamin Franklin went to bed hun gry many times. "If these people want everything on the same level.' he said, Let's make if a higher level. It. isn't the world that's wrong, it's that class of people"
 Not All Poor Are Good
 l do not thlnk mat all Lne poor are good neither do ] think that all riches are the uniform of shame. The begger might have conquered if he would the world is not to blame. All failure is not undeserved, Many men have themselves shaped the things they are,
 About Promotion
 "'Why am I not promotedo' some men ask If I were to name the one thing that stands foremost in making for promotion, I should say, intelli- gence.' One of the saddest things that has come to this country is the feeling among men that they have come to the point where they should do as little as possible and shirk as much as possible for the wages they get. One labor leader said he costs this country s3,ooo.ooo d year ny travelling around telling men to shrk on the job
 Rev. A. B. Taylor. of the Peoples church led the singing. Rev. Dr. w. Quay Roselle, of Maiden, Massachu- setts, occupied the platform. spe- cial orchestra furnished some instru- mental music.
 Membership Still Growing
 With only s5 men present when the class was organized last November,