New Britain herald., 1926-01-25
DREAMER HELPFUL
 ID MANS PROGRESS
Rev, Samuel Fiske Declares
 Vision Is Essential


 the family to be a pet of any one Of its parents, according to Rev. Samuel A. Fiske. of the Berlin Con. gregauonal church, who delivered the fourth of a series Of talks on Brief Bible Biographies" at the meeting of Everyman's Bible class yesterday morning.
 This was the last sermon by Rev. Mir Fiske. For the next four Sun days, Rev. William II. Alderson of the Methodist church will speak
 Rev, Mir, Fiske yesterday took as nis theme, The Dutiful Dreamer" and explained the story of Joseph. He said Joseph was "papas pet. He was the one child in the family that Jacob loved the best. That is very apt to be an unfortunate thing, and,
 indeed, so 1t was unfortunate for Joseph"
 Speaking of the life of Joseph and
 indicative of the place where dreams have practical use in the life of q man, ne sal0:
 "Unfortunately. most men think Of dreams as a Will-o'- -the-wisp chas- ing after things that are impossible. Most men think Of dreams as blind leaders of the blind, who lead them and their followers alike into the ditch by the wayside. But in my judgment that is not true. I would magnify the. idea this morning that dreams, as the seeing of things that are not yet but that may be in the life of men, are among the most important elements in mans life.
 The man who goes along the way of life today and sees nothing in the streets but mud and water: who sees nothing in the city's build ings but brick and stone and cement and so much wood and timber: the man who sees nothing in life but the things he can touch and handle; who is familiar with noth- ing but these material forces which are but the common interpretation of his common life that man is los ing out in the long run in the in spirations and ideals which belong to the lives of men.
 This life of intense activity which you and I are leading may not be the sum all of the successful life in the world. That you, my brother, or tl,;S day with your coat tails at an angle Of 45 degrees to fulfill the tasks of your life does not necessarily indi- cate that you are building to the highest capacity the social, moral and religious life of the community in which you live.
 "I would talk to you then, with J oseph in my mind and yours, about the idea of dreams and the place they hold in the ordinary life of man. Why is it by dreams of that which has not been that we realize anything that actually comes 10 pass in this world? You take the man who is cold. and he immediately be gins to dream of a snug house and q warm fire, which by every effort possible he will go forth and win for himself. Here is man who is hungry. and that man begins to dream of tables full of palatable food, and he goes out to labor and toll until his dream is realized and he finds himself with the comforts of life about him. Here Is the man who is impoverished and poor; he has dreams of comfort and dreams of the ability to have and to hold the things of life. and he goes out in the strength of those dreams 10 realize them.
 We have dreams of all kinds and the dreams that men hold are the precursors of the things that arc actually realized in the life of hu' manity that are worth while. We have our dreams of the great in ventions that have blessed mankind. Here is Morse as dreamer of the close knit brotherhood of the na- tions of the earth all by the proper arrangement of wire cable under the wide reaches Of the great ocean and the mountains and across the plains. The wires are laid, and be- hold. there comes to your break fast table every morning the news Of everything that has happened in the last A hours from the uttermost parts of the earth.
 Not only did Morse have his vision of bringing the nations Of he world together by this close knit relationship of the cable and | he wire, but Gray and Bell had , heir dreams, and they dreamed that | t was possible to project the human | 'oice through the air so that a man ,ould talk with his friend in Chi . ago from New Britain. And now ! hey are telling that soon we will iot only be able to talk to people ,ut that we may be able to see them tt the sametime. q can conceive of circumstances when l should be very happy not to have my friend see me tt the telephone).
 We have the illustration of Howard giving the very best he can 0 the process of the manufacture # rubber; sometimes near arrest because he cannot pay his bills. or ust standing on the edge of a jail entence; spending all he has and ;iving all he has to experiments with this refractory substance. One light there comes 10 this man n ream, and he dreamed about way hat rubber could be manufactured so s to be the servant Of humanity. n his dream 1t came to him that by ome process he could mix sulphur with the stuff and his problem would