Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-22
CONFERENCES OF CHURCHES
HELD AT NEwENr

HELD Al NE " FIN I
 The conference of churches held at Newent on Wednesday was attended by 1o7 persons, in spite of the deluge of rain. The church was very cheery with its lovely decorations of crimson ram-i blers, peonies, spirea, gloxinias and | ferns arranged by Mrs. Edwin Corbett. l The opening devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. w J. Reynolds, pas tor of the church. The music consisted | of an anthem by the choir and a solo l by Mrs. Francis G. Way of Glastonbury, l who sang o Divine Redeemer by Gou- l nod. She was accompanied by Mrs. IN. | l.. Greig of Dayville. The sermon of the morning was delivered by Rev. Ed ward M. Chapman, DID,, of New Lon don. His text was taken from Isaiah 38, 18th verse. Oh, Lord, by these things men live. He dwelt at length on the spirit of adventure in men and adjured his hearers not to shrink or shun the | challenge of faith to adventure. As | long as there is a problem to be solved,
 man cannot rest until he has hurled him self into the discovery of the answer. l Unless men had a positive attitude to- wards life discoveries would not be l made. His answer to the things by 1 which men live was God, freedom and 1 immortality, and we want to lay frmer and stronger hold of these fundamentals of life. All three of these points were enlarged upon in most convincing Ian guage. After the benedction dinner was served in the town hall, Rev. J. w. l Payne saying grace. Newent confer eqlee dinner has always been famous for its strawberry shortcakes. and it lived
 up to it's reputation this year. The bus
 mess meeting opened the afternoon ses-
 sion the scribe, Mrs. E. H. Hiscox read
 ing the minutes of the last meeting. The roll call showed r from Jewett City
 Congregational church, Is from Hanover 35 from Lisbon, two from Griswold, II from Preston, none from Plainfield and :. 20 from other churches. The scribe re- ported the finding of the old book of rec ords as unsuccessful up to date.
 . 1 After the offering was received, a ris : ing vote of thanks was given the church for it's hospitality at the suggestion O Deacon William Lee of Hanover. Mir Reynolds expressed his appreciation O
 the addhess by Dr. Chapman and thu ! solos sung by Mrs Way. A song seryic' . was led by Mir. Reynolds.
 Rev. Rodericl Mcleod of Hanove
 spoke on The Moving Picture and tn Church. He first gave history of nov ,, ing picture development. He said tn : 1 appointment of Will Hays will be { ' moving pictures what Judge Landis is t = baseball, and much more So because c \, the moral aspect of the pictures. Ther are three ways in which they can hel
 the church They can contribute to tn 7 evening worship, but let them be second ' ary to the talk by the minister. He sai U almost 75 per cent of learning come . through the eye and pictures create a :, atmosphere which speech cannot. The :, can contribute to the social life of tn church and they are an education;
 function of the church and add to tn Y culture of the community.
 s But, he added they may be sourc '. of danger and trouble in the church. UT l. less most carefully and prayerfully COT IS ducted and supervised, which may be! IT be done by a competent committee IT d Methodist church has a national movin k picture committee to whom any Metht L. dist church may apply for help and il 1T struction as to properly conduct churC is moving pictures. The matter of expens h. for the country church is prohibitiv Id People rightly criticize certain films ar 70 say they would not let their childre " see them. He said what is not clea d enough for our children to see is m Id clean enough for anyone to see. Thel
 is an interdenominaHonal church con IS mittee which can be consulted. Go er speaks through thts earthquake, fl' lg and the wind and can speak through u at moving pictures.
 Id Artbur M Brown was unable to l
 present on account of court duties.
 Mir Reynolds spoke briefly of matte IS of state including the enforcement of tl to 18th amendment and the conference W;
 closed.