The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-08

ation and asked his Dr. for the truth concerning his condition and said, T can take it, I've had bully time in life" MT. Fairbank said, To have a bully time in life, to have life full of deep ongoing enthusiasms, is what makes life worth while.
 Enthusiasm is absolutely necessary before any important movement for good can get under way. There wouldn't have been any United States of America if men like Pat rick Henry with an enthusiasm that could not be contained, had not said Give me Liberty or give me death" and had not this message been passed on and on to S.hers. Until the water in the boiler is raised to boiling heat there is no steam generated to turn the wheels of the engine. Until the water of our spirits is raised to the boiling heat of enthusiasms, nothing happens.
 One of the encouraging signs in Bunker Hill is the manifest increase in the enthusiasm of the people as they to realize that they are actually going to do something about finish ing the church sanctuary. They have stopped talking and have start ed to act. Close to, $500 has come from the coin cards and Easter en- velopes and more is still coming. The WNY1n e CnOinfxr hn %s1nnn
 MT. Fairbank spoke of the contri- button which Rev. MT. Davis, a former pastor of the church, had come to the spiritual life of the Bunker Hill people. What was it? he asked, that made them change their 50 cents week pledges to $2 Sum- day and the $1 pledges to $3 and more a Sunday. This change in the thinking and giving habits of the people was about the biggest thing that happened to them in this church. When they changed from 50 cents Sunday to g Sunday Christians they began to get cer- tain values from the church, they began to generate an enthusiasm for the church that they never had before.
 There are people who are think ing in terms of giving $25 toward the church building who will decide to give $1O, people who may be thinking of giving $100 toward its completion who will decide to give $4OO or $500, and there will be child ren who will be saving their nickels and dimes who will find that they have done something which has given them about as much pleasure as anything they ever did. For when you so hunger and thirst after the building of the>church of the living God that you sacrifice for 1t you have the kind of a bully" time tha; Dr. Lewis was talking about.
 MT. Fairbank also said, We need to check our enthusiasm by careful planning, that is why the Finance and Building Committee has taken such long time before starting this financial drive. They had to refin- ance the mortgage, they wanted to be sure they knew where they were going and how they were going to get there.
 MT. Fa1rbank Sa1Q when ne came to Bunker Hill three years ago he was impressed with the fine en- thusiasm of the people for Bunker Hill and its church. This group, he said, when they saw anything worth while to be done got enthusiastic about 1t. They listened carefully to criticisms, but criticisms did not stop them. They were on fire and they set other people on fire. They didn't need to get some professional go- getter in to organize their campaign and stir up their enthusiasm. They rolled up their sleeves and got to work. they put their hands in their pockets and pulled out lot of hard earned money and they had c bully time doing 1t. H
 The success of this church, not only in Its building venture, but in