New Britain herald., 1924-03-03


 ring true you won't get very far. If you get by the fire test and you really ring true. even then you are not through. In life we go through the grinding and polishing process. Long fellow says
 "'The mills of God grind slowly
 But they grind exceedingly small
 Though with patience he stands wait
 ing
 Yet with patience grin1s he all
 You are ground in the mills of God to put the right touch on you, and then polished. But ] do hope they won't put us through the pro- cess that those girls are doing up there. If one Of you married one of these girls and she put that cclluloid test on you. she would sue for di- yorcc the next day.
 Then after that you are put through an eccentricity test. If every preacher had to go through that test 1t would be a sad day for preaching. II you are eccentric just off balance a little bit, you are sent back. l am glad We don't have to go through that. Then they put them in this little electric machine and listen for the noise. 1t must be noiseless. They know up at Fafnir Bearing that noise isn't power. My friends, the most powerful things Tn the universe are the most noiseless, and the most noisy things are some of the weakest. A minister never n iS that his argument is weak. That's the reason l used to yell so much here in the Bible class; and yet some Of these fellows have come around and wanted me 10 yell like I used to be- cause they would rather listen to noise than follow in reason some ar gument It isn't noise that makes the Bible class; it isn't noise that pro- duces power. It is the quiet power of logic that we want. l suppose the most powerful thing in the universe as the sun. It lifts millions of gall Ions of water from the ocean, and yet it lifts it more noiselessly than the old handle pump lifting gallon from the well. The moon is so quiet, and yet she lifts the whole ocean and causes the tides. She did 1t so quiet ly that it was centuries before they found out even that she did IL. The sun makes less noise than an April | thunder shower, but it does a million times more work. The Bible says the effect of righteousness shall be quiet
 ness and assurance. When Elijah was in the mountain, first there came the mighty wind. and then there 1 came the fire and then the earth quake, but God was not in them, and then after it was all over, standing in the door Of the cave. he heard n still. small voice, and that was the voice of God. Ii doesn't mean that God never has been in the fire or has never spoken in the earthquake; but He didn't speak then in the earth quake, wind or fire, He spoke that day in tho still, small voice, and He's speaking that way today.
 "Thcre are two processes, one is the production of power and the other is the transmission Of power. and power is what we want, that's what We are looking for. l am told, | IL l remember correctly that in the steam engine so per cent Of the power ! is lost, through escaping steam, etc. Now we want economy in producing power. and that's what engineers have worked on for years. Here comes fafnir Bearing, and they are trying to get economy in the trans
 mission of power. That's really the whole purpose Of Fafnir Bcaring--by reducing friction fin transmission of power they get the power that is generated: they lose only .l5 of a per cent Of power in the transmission. That's due to reducing the friction. In one Of the magazines published by i'afnir Bearing l saw this illustration. There's only ono point of contact. l saw the picture there Of men bowl ling. one of the fellows is rolling down a ball, and then another fellow tries to roll. but his ball is not round, it's cylinder shaped. and there's too much contact. too much friction. The other ball only comes in contact in one place. it will roll any direction, there's almost no loss of power it's almost vanished in the ball bearing.
 My friends. that's exactly what we want to do in life to reduce friction to the vanishing point. Think how much power is lost in politics, in re- ligion, in industry, through friction Look at the democrats and rcpubli- cans. ln all tho great contests in the past. and still in the present, large part ol the time is spent by the re-
 publicuns in lying about the demo- crats and the democrats lying about republicans. actually causing frictioIf. Sometimes in d campaign they ac- tually seek for weeks for something l that will make friction,--like the | league of nations. instead Of seeking { 10 harmonize md 10 reduce friction [ and Co have more poser. Look al 1 the great fight between Wilson and i the senate iu which neither side won
 --months of discussion and nothing really accomplished, and we, the peo- ! pie. suffered. Now if we had some political ball bearing that would go [ along and reduce friction in politics,
 how much more we could accom- plish and with how much less loss Of . energy and power. That's what we need iI politics.
 And then iu religion we need something that will reduce, the fric- ! ticu between rrOtestants and Cathu- !. lirs. and Catholics and Jews. and Wc reed something that wiiI come along
 and reduce inc friction in Protestant | bodies. There are almost 200 differ cnt denominations among the Protest ants. and yet all oi us. both Jews wslt. would not hardly say that Catholics and I'rot-stauts at least- aereeiiig on Jesus Christ. that He is . the SaSiour O thr world aud tho Messiah that should come. Even with | the Jews. we all agree on the moral