New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

iron. Come down to the tenth cen, trry and little later and they had them made of iron, and these were
 crescent shaped hinges, and some. times the end was fiattened out into
 a serpent's head and they used to
 make a great deal of floral work, etc
 The Danes at one time pasted or
 nailed up the skins of their enemies on the doors of cathedrals and
 churches, and then that practice f.
 nally passed away and instead of hu-
 man skins they used the skins oi
 animals. They used to flatten these heads out into serpents and wreaths By the middle of the 11th century
 they began to do away with the or
 namentation and began to make plain
 hinges In the Dutch period you will
 find the old T hinges. I have seen
 pictures of them in Pennsylvania and
 you will find them in magazines The
 last evolution of the hinge is the butt this sawed off hinge. It is hidden away-'a hinge that can be hidden away. And the latest thing in that
 line is the ballbearing butt I won't say anything about the material or
 how it is made, but here is a ball bearing butt. That keeps it from wearing out and helps in the smooth ness and the beauty and the ease in reducing friction. One of the things they put hinges on doors for is to make them silent. Here is a door showing how this ballbearing butt will work, and that l suppose, is the very latest thing in butts. The Stanley Works is one of the first concerns in the country to make cold rolled steel. and out from the Stanley Works go the hinges on which the doors of the world are hung.
 We speak about the open door and the closed door, the open door Tn China But every one of these things work on hinges. (one of the dinerences between a door and a man is--that the door is no good until it's hung, and man is no good after he's hungD Everything hinges on some- thing. The Stanley Works itself hinges on something. What does it hinge on? The character and the in- tegrity and the ability and the deter imitation and courage and fighting spirit Of these men like Frederick Stanley and William II. Hart and these other men. Ii hinged upon these men at one time: this whole concern was hinged in the very heart and soul of Frederick T. Stanley. If he had failed you men would not be working in New Britain; and not only does it hinge upon the present man. sgement and their integrity and sagacity and ability, but it hinges also spon the cooperation of all the men that work in the great factory. stan ley Works itself hinges upon that. If they did not have the cooperation and the loyalty of the men who work at the bench, all Of their sagacity and all or their understanding would be as nothing because you have got to have cooperation, and their success hinges upon the loyalty and the cooperation of the workmen throughout.
 Stanley Works success depends upon three things: Its capitalization. always having a great reserve. Elimi. nation of waste, and also upon it's spirit of democracy and cooperation. which really is peculiar. it seems 10 me, there in the great Stanley Works.
 And then, my friends, 1 thought away from that, how that your sal Nation and my salvation hinges upon the sdcrificial death of our Saviour. If He had not come and shown us a new way. As Socrates said, Unless a al 1.- shows us the truth we arc lost in darkness The brightest mind of the Greeks said that Christ came and died for you and me. Salvation hinges on the sacrificial death of Christ. Not only that, it also hinges upon whether we accept Christ and follow him. He said of Jerusalem How often would I have gatbered you, etc. And today Christ calls men. and whether or not they lead the life that IS successful in the moral sense hinges on whether they accept Christ and live for Christ and follow Christ. The salvation of society, the hone of this old world, the industry, hinges, absolutely hinges. upon whether we get the spirit of Christ, the message or Ihrlst, the motive of Christ into society, into national life, into inter- national life, and whether we get that message and motive Of Christ into business. We hold in our hands the destinies of millions Of people in the future. We hold the leadership, and our continuing ss a leader among the nations hinges upon whether or not we continue 10 practice the teachings of the Bible and the message of Christ. And when I think of A hinge think Of that upon which everything depends and that does depend upon the future. God is calling America, calling the leaders in industry. the leaders in labor. everywhere. to fol- low the spirit of Christ-the spirit Of justice and fairness and love, which