New Britain herald., 1928-05-10
RETAIL JEWELLERS
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we shall wrcstle together with it in an attempt to find d solution Fol- lowing that. l may be called to bap-
 tizc an infant, Perhaps from the baptisnal ceremony l will hurry 10
 wedding. and as has sometimes
 occurred straight from the wedding
 to a funeral. Tonight sroup of
 church members will be gathered together in a service, during which
 We will spend an hour in song and
 prayer In the minds Of many am supposed to go about with a sane
 tlmonlous expression on my face and
 long black coat on my back and appear religious while l am engaged
 in my religious work. Now If we are going to characterize religious work in that way let mo in the same frame of mind characterize modern
 business.
 .tse of Machinery
 Some body has said, and justly so l believe, that this is the age Of machinery, and I would mention briefly three machines that char '1Nt'l IA' piISt4l uut blISiiltSS lIltlil- ods. First, the flying machine, not because the flying machine has yet played so great a part in modern business, though il is coming to take it's rightful place, but because the flying machine Charact cterizcs the most rapid method Of transporta- ton We have yet devised The great slogan of present day business is
 speed Everything Is being speed mp, locomotives, automobiles. fly ing machines. Our fastest planes arc now travelling nearly five miles q minute. Our fastest automobiles arc exceeding a rate of two hundred miles an hour Our fastest trains are crossing the continent in five days. Our swittCst ocean liners arc crossing the ocean in five and a fraction days. By means Of the wire less and the radio Wc have so spCodcd up our methods Of com nunlcation that one can actually send a message today 10 a friend on the other side of the world and it travels so rapidly that the mes sage will be received yesterday. Speed. Speed, Speed is the great shrine at which every one in the business world worships today.
 "FThc second machine I would mention is the adding machine, The adding machine cannot divide, it cannot subtract. it can simply add, making the total amount higher and higher all the while. IL is typical Of a frame of mind into which mod crn business has brought itself. The store with the largest sales is the most cnvicd ono, the sky scrappor with the tallcst spirc is inc most conspicuous ono, the bank with the greatest deposits is a challenge 10 every other bank. Even the minister with the largest congregation is the envy of his brother ministers. Num- hcrs. numbers. numbers-just as if shear size counted for anything, and yet 1 say the adding machine, or the symbolism with which I am using il, characterizcs certain very definite spirit in the present day bus- mess world.
 "The third machine is that most musical one, the cash register. Tho oftener the cash register tnglcs the better we are satisfied. The more dollars We have in the bank, the happier we think VIC arc If this year shows larger net receipts than last year, we consider it an infinitely more successful year. If our com potitor has lost some Of his GUS toners and they have passed |. the doors of our business establishment there is a smile Of ap- | rroval on our faces as we hear the | cash register recording their pur- l chases. Dollars, dollars, dollars. modern business. It is indeed an ago Of machinery the age of the fly | ing machine. the adding machine, | the cash register
 When Religion and Business Meet
 Now l known as a so-cal1ed re- | llg'ous worked I am not at all sat 1 lsfled with the definition gave | awhile ago Of religion, and an sure as business men you would not i admit that I had told the whole | story of modern business. The thing I want to do in these minutes we arc spending together is 10 find. not . the points of difference. but the i points of agreement, the places where religion and business arc walking hand in hand with common interest. There is no reason why " hen We go out of the door togetl- er today our ways should part im- In much of our activity We walk on common ground. do not think that the attitude we have inst taken toward either religion or business is . just one. l believe they are SO ineXtricsbly intertwined that no one can ever successfully sep arate them. am sure that business has had it's effect upon religion, and am just as sure that religion has had its effect upon business.
 Ut I were talking today to group of business men who were en-