New Britain herald., 1923-10-15
SEES NEED FOR
 CHURCH IN SOCIETY
More Spirit of Religion Also Lack ins in Business, Thinks Pastor

ana me ehureh lnte business and sos
 eiety they will redeem the whole uni'
 verse" said Rev John |. Davis in an
 address to Soi men at the session of lEyeryman's Bible class yesterday
 morning, The minister took "Friend' ship" as his topic, He quoted The
 book of Proverbs in which a warning
 is issued against unreal friendships
 and said "A man who will not be a
 friend to you when yeu are poor Is
 certainly not your friend when you
 are rich"
 "one of the saddest things in life Is
 suspicion of others, When l went
 away to college I thought everybody
 knew how ignorant l. was and al-
 ways suspected they didn't like me.
 and that they were talking about me.
 This Is the thing that cured me. re-
 membered several times when l had
 whispered about something. someone suspected me Of talking about them. felt how perfectly ridiculous that was
 because l never even had them in
 mind. l made up my mind then I
 never would be suspicious of a living soul until knew they were whisper ing about mo. I would never suspect anybody When got suspicion out of my life what n great joy came into my life.
 The employers of this town are sometimes suspicious of me because they do not know what am going to say or do. Every employer in this town Is my friend. and why, because they know that the only desire I have on Gods earth is 10 see justice done. Laborers and employers both have nothing to fear from me as long as they do what is right. They have no better friend in this town than I am. II they want to do right and they know It. but If they want to do wrong they have no worse enemy.
 suspicion is the curse of tbis country today and misunderstanding and lack Of friendship If we could l get the friendship of Christ and of the | church Into business and into society | we could redeem the whole universe. | suspicion is the curse of society. The employer is suspicious of the laborer. The laborer is suspicious of the em- ployer. Why don't they get togetherg why do they suspect each other? If Lhe employer would put all the cards on the table and trust his employees he would find they could be trusted.
 Faithful are the wounds of a rlend, but the kisses of an enemy are 1eceitful. A friend will tell you what ne thinks you ought to do and he will ell you the truth for your own good It will hurt you but he knows it is Or your benefit. Let us listen to our riends. You want to listen to your friend when he gets mad at you and iou never want to listen to your en- any when he gets mad at you. Did iou ever think of that? Whenever a good friend gets mad at you he tells fou what he has wanted to say but iidn't have the heart to, but when 5our enemy gets mad at you he is ust relieving his system. Listen to our friends when they are indignant, isten to your enemies when they are .ool.
 The man who says you are not my riend unless you drink with me, is lot a real friend Don't say anything o him, just look at him and keep ooking at him and he will wither way. The friendship that has its 'asis in the wine glass or in glass # beer, I would not consider such He is only friend of the lass.
 "Friendship must have a spiritual asis, something deep in the life that rings them together.
 Friendship is flower that has to e cultivated. used to think that nee I had friend, tbat friendship would take care of itself, but that is ot true, the more dear friend is he more you must cultivate that friendship, the more careful you have ot to be to keep it alive. The hope this world is in the flower of friend hip. If we could only make that true f all of this great United States, oh, hat nation we would have!
 There are very few men who are to be themselves when with their .iends. It is a fine thing to feel that ou can be hilarious if you want to e, that you can do anything you want , because you know your friend will nderstand you. Some men cannot lrn loose in their own homes, and ,me men live their whole lives with 1t daring to be themselves.
 '"I don't know why I have always 1t you could trust humanity. When nployers have told me they cannot ust the secrets of the business to cir employees I do not believe it be- use I believe you can trust the owd to do right when it is put up
 them. Let us trust each other. .ust your friends and believe in God Id believe in the universe and believe
 will help you to do right and to ,e right. God give us friends and ,lp us to realize that if we succeed
 friendship we have succeeded far ore than he who has made money" There were 5o1 present, including o members of the P. o. s. of A., and delegation of 23 men from Putnam. le Red army had PA members pres t: the White army had 76 and the ue army had 201. Next Sunday the lights of Pythias will be guests. nong the visitors yesterday were sv. $. E. Conzar and 22 men from k