New Britain herald., 1926-01-25

the battlefield. recognizes the awful
 loss of life that is there because of
 tho failure of nurses attention, and
 Florence Nightingale in the wake
 Of her dream leads forth a mighty
 army of the best young women of
 the world under the red banner ot
 the Cross until the sufferings of
 men are ministered unto and the
 lives Of men are saved.
 Martin Luther. standing in his
 place there in Germany and seeing
 the absurdity of tho situation in
 religion of his day. declared for tho freedom of the human con science, nailed his thesis to the wall at Worms and there took his stand for the things of his dream.
 might cite to you that Colum- bus had dream of a new world, and he was secuted and scoffcd at but in the light of that dream he saled his ship until a new world was discovered.
 Our fathers had a dream of land where they could have free religious and political development. and they took their Mayflowers and sailed across the uncharted seas 10 the colonies of New England and New York and Virginia, and then they realized the thing that they dreamed of great free state, and this man dreamed and that and they dared, and they lived until this great republic was born. the supreme thought, as 1t seems to me, of this trend of the national life of these last centuries.
 With tho idea of Joseph in our minds; with the illustrations l have tried to bring before you, what shall you and have 10 say concerning this thing in the practical life you and l are living in this modern world?
 T want 10 say to you this morn ing men, that 1t is possible for you to dream unworthily; 1t is possible for you to dream seltishly, in order that by your dreaming you may dodge your duty It is not those things that l am talking about this morning. Joseph dreamed. first, se- tishiy, and he had to be trained by the providence of God through slav- cry and imprisonment and suffering until he could sec the fine ideals of the dream of personal ambition.
 The same thing holds for us in our modern life today, Whenever there is an idea that better con lition of life may be possible than has yet been realized, there is your dream, and your dream is 10 be fol- lowed by every possible working out of your mental powers and of your mental powers and of your vision until your dream is realized. would not give q fig for the man who simply dreams and then is not willing to pay the cost of his dream. Every dream man has that's worth while is going to cost him 
 You men here this morning are proud Of your city. You would like to have, I imagine, each man of you, a better city; you would like a New Britain of higher ideals and purer life and nobler citizenship. How shall you gain rhat? Of course we have service clubs and a Chamber of Commerce, but you shall have a better New Britain only as you in your place dream of 8 better New Britain and follow in the wake of your dreams until you realize the thing that may be and has not yet been.
 As I drove into town this morn ing I passed by Franklin Square with it's statute of Elihu Burritt, and there came into my mind the picture of the man who dreamed for New Britain and for humanity and of those other men who have followed in the wake of Elihu Burritt-thesc whose names are household words for Us, the Stanleys and the Corbins md the Judds and the Erwins. How lid these industries come to be es- abolished here, and how did New Britain happen to be the great hard ware city of the world? Because there were men who dared to dream md were willing to pay the price of their dreams and established hero heir industries until they are known today throughout the world
 If there Is to be a better New Britain you must dare to dream O; a better New Britain. Do you wan, to see the day that Elihu Burrir;