New Britain herald., 1924-02-11
MASS MEETING FOR
 MEN NEXT SUNDAY
EVeryman'S Bible Class Hires
 Capitol Theater for Event

f Mayor A. M. Paonessa. members of the common council, Chief William C. Hart and members of the police de- partment, Chief w. J. Noble and
 members of the fire department, all ! the factory groups which have attend i ed in body heretofore and all other factories in the city as well as groups i of business men have been invited by ! President A. H. Parker of Everyman's s
 Bible Class to All New Britain Sun 1 day" next Sunday at the Capitol thea l ter when it is expected to have up- wards of 2500 men attend in a last i final effort to keep the Leland cup ! in New Britain.
 ! So keen has the contest grown for i the cup between the New Britain and 1 Mount Vernon, N. r.. Bible classes that a lead of about 500 held by the
 Mount Vernon class three weeks ago ] has been cut to a lead of 99, with two more weeks to go.
 Invitations to sit on the platform and participate in the program have been sent to the Catholic clergy also. Yesterdays attendance in New Brit ain was 77s as compared to 59s in Mount Vernon. There were visitors here from Grand Rapids, Mich, Chi cago and New York as well as sur rounding towns.
 Yesterday Russwin Sunday
 Rev. John l.. Davis will speak next
 Sunday in "The Value of a Soul" Yes
 terday was Russwin Sunday and MT.
 Davis took as his subject The Closed
 Door. taking as his text. Behold I
 Stand at the Door and Knock"
 He said in part:
 Every great manufacturing place
 that l visited has ben associated with
 q great man. There's P. & r. Corbin with Philip Corbin; the Stanley Works
 with Mir, Stanley, and William II.
 Hart. Then in the Russell X Erwin
 company, MT. Erwin. In way, it's the secret of their success. Mir. Erwin was the first president, in lS46, when the present company, then Russell &
 Erwin Manufacturing company. was established. He showed his love for
 his city by his gifts to the city: he showed his patriotism by the gift Of the monument that stands here in the center Of our city and he showed his respect for old age by the Erwin home in which elderly women can go and be looked after: where they can rent a little apartment and do all their own housekeeping, buy their own groceries etc. and they often pay less for rent than it would cost them for coal. That | is work that is very much needed in America today, because old age is so often very needy. He also gave the i chapel out in the cemetery; he gave i il fund for the library. Not only that ! but Mr. Erwin showed his love and ! respect for the church, especially by the gift of his palatial home. which i is now the parsonage Of the South | church, furnished with the very best Of furnishings.
 "We often hear people say, a man cannot be in modern business and be q Christian l have heard men say, ] If l were to live the Christian life | would starve to death.' My friends, the men whom l have named here this morning, every one Of them, is rcfutation of that argument. Here's man who Was a thorough Christian. Don't tell mon that you cannot be a successful business man and be Christian. 1 am beginning to think that they are the only kind who get 10 be successful, permanently. in busi- ness-who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
 "'Bchold l stand at tho door and knock" All Of the things that we are about today have something to do with doors. Behold stand at the door and knock Tho first word is 'behold'--look! IL is as If tho writ TT wanted to call the attention Of the |, whole world to this fact Look, he says, the Saviour ot the world stands , 8t the door and knocks. and yon have the door locked. A lock, as said not long ago, is to keep people out who { ought not to be in and to keep people l In who ought not Co be out. That's the l purpose Of lock, and many times if