New Britain herald., 1925-11-27
CHURCHES JOIN IN
 ANNUAL SERVICES
Three Hours Difference in Ar,
 rival Decides Speaker

'fNA AAA|'' 'y 'lAt iN'Na llINNLSlN +Alll9- worth Greene, pastor of the First Congregational church, at the union l Thanksgiving service yesterday at the First church.
 Members of the First Baptist Baptist church. the Methodist church and the First, South and Stanley Memorial Congregational churches participated in the service.
 Rev. Mir. Greene was selected by virtue of his being the newest min. ister in the city. this being an an- nual custom. There was a question for some time as to whether he or Rev. w, H. Alderson of the Meth o1ist church arrived here first, but il was found upon investigation that 1 Rev. MT. Alderson preceded Mir. Greene by about three hours. thus making the Congregational minister the newest clergyman in the city. Rev. Mir. Greene's sermon was as follows:
 "Of all the truths In this cynical old book, ecclesiastes here we have -perhaps--the choicest and the best
 Cast thy bread upon the waters! For thou shalt find 1t after many days
 There lint one of us here this morning, who hasn't heard those words a dozen times before. Some times they have come to us with a humorous connotation, and some times in desperate earnest. The thought is by no means new! But wonder how many of us understand it? How many of us believe 1t? And how few of us make 1t the practice of our lives?
 As matter of fact, this cryptic saying from the very heart of the ancient east conveys very little 10 the modern western mind. Anyone who has dandled away an hour on the North River docks or along the Quays at Hayre or Liverpool, watch ing a green ocean liner putting out to sea, will be inclined to doubt even the sanity of this ancient writer. lt looks like the maddcst sort of mad ness to cast bread upon the water in hope of finding 1t later on. In very short order our bread Is gobbled up hy fishes and water rats or quickly becomes waterIogged, mouldered ana disintcgratcd. Because of our literal western minds, such apparent waste of bread, the very staff et life,' seems the sheorcst sort of fol- ly. But, this business of casting bread upon the water is no folly to tue Egyptian, Any dwoIler in the cast can understand 1t at once.
 Cast thy bread upon the waters. For thou shalt find if after many .2yS.'
 For these words describe exactly hat happens every year along the banks of such rivers as the Nile. When the river is at the flood in @pringtime, and the banks are GOV cred with muddy water the farmer @ocs out with his bag of rice anl rcattcrs it over the surface. For you and me, such apparent vast" needs rvplan2tion, 1}ut what happens in this, That rice sings and EerminatoS in the soil below the water, And fater on, Thon the weary months of waiting are past behold tho rice rolds are GOV cred with harvest That is the picture the writer is showing us. Hc is simply stating in his own picturesque fashion the law of all saving and rraring.
 "And, remember. the people for W vhom he was writing lived b" this yearly exercise of faith, It was this ,orr lesson which the harvest drought to mind, As he pondcrs unon it--thore comes over this man tho conviction that here is a uni -rsal law, a law which will apply ta . dozen things besides q rice har- ,rst. Hero iS q principle that runs trough the Y nc)t universe hH says, A1d it applies to both the natural "orld, and tho spiritual. r oonstI- Nntes the chalnnge of the harvest . uson Al the close of autumn il turns back and points 2 lesson 10 .nl beginning of sprinetim@, Thus |'r leaves Us 10 think i. out for our
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 'Cast thy bread nron th' 7a+or@: or thou shalt fuI it after many i#rs
 "Th4re are two things Gerr on ! which il IS worth our whi,e to think . for n nttla as VI observe this old l inc harvest festival
 And the first thought IS this; r. va want to li}e a. all, we must ra wiling 10 take the risk Of death. Cast thy bread upon the waters. . Why that is he only method Of per 7c'uatng lf' hutan animal, Feg"- .ahle. And fl must have seemed srrango method to man, who. in 4l8 quet way rrIle"tt1 upon th" r,7.e+aru A. fAT,,-s' S1lDrhca q