Show THE CllhiIICll1S1S1M Y Rev C T Browns Address at the First Congregational TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS SOME OF TiE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LIVE 3IAN An Eloquent Discourse nt the Tab cruncle Yesterday Afternoon by Elder l I Roberts Rev W S Hawlces ut the Y 31 C A Meeting The Unitarian Service At the First Congregational church last evening Rev C T Brown delivered deliver-ed a special address for commercial travelers his subject being A Live Man There was a large attendance and many commercialmen were present A quartette composed of I H Thomas George E Ford R O Dustan and W J McCoy sang three beautiful selections selec-tions A brief synopsis of Rev Browns discourse is as follows Commercial men not only represent a line of goods or a certain house but are representative represen-tative of the age in its immense material ma-terial wealth and commerce and in a sense representative also of the strong tendency toward concentration in the Industrial and commercial world One house is often represented by an arm of men who find their way to every state And in the important problems arising out of these conditions the commercial traveler must play an important part Important as commerce com-merce is it < must never take precedence of man A pedestrian has no rights in London that a driver is bound to respect re-spect and in Paris if a man is run over 3ie has to pay the fine The commercial com-mercial man is representative too of an ancient class of travelers As a rule he does not travel ror his health or because the has nothing else to do Among his ancestors were the Teutons who startled the Romans in the rear i 113 B C by shooting down the snowy Alps on their shields They were seeking seek-ing a wider field of business I have a special respect for the religion re-ligion of a commercial traveler because be-cause it has been tried both by business busi-ness and travel Only a vital religion can survive a trip across the Rockies It must be the religion of a live man The speaker spoke of some of the characteristics of a live man First is a sturdy self respect one foot of a compass must be set firmly in order to make a true circle Only as one learns the value of his own life does he have a standard for appreciating others I Secondly he must be a man with a good power of assimilation A mind I with a digestive system is more important I im-portant than with a body The orthodox ortho-dox ghost is a spirit without a body the real ghost is a body without a I spirit Existence is not necessarily life I Doubtless Dean Swift had this distinction I distinc-tion in mind when he said may you live all the days of your life A mushroom I mush-room and an oak may grow on the same soil This brings up the old question ran or his circumstances 1 cir-cumstances which Doubtless most of us have felt the truth of Emersons satire when he said TMMan ordinarily is a pendant to events only half attached and that awkwardly With circumstances man is either a master or a slave There i hope that most men rebel against that slavery Tennyson said I am a part of all that I have met Happy the man Who can master his circumstances assimilate as-similate them and thereby feed his soul A commercial traveler has a wonderful opportunity for sn education educa-tion in this line ICo man has more circumstances to deal with than he has The great question Is what resources re-sources have you What feeders I How many of the fine faculties and sensibilities with which you were endowed en-dowed are left A man may dwell in paradise and dream of a cabbagegar I den or he may dwell in a cabbage garden and dream of paradise The dwelling shows where he exists The I dream determines where he lives oman o-man can afford to spare from his equipment I equip-ment a generous share in the love of I the true the beautiful and the good I The master said he came that we might have life and have it abundantly I abun-dantly Time was when rulers wrote I I King by the grace of God So may every man write today Out of the heart are the issues of life Under the leadership of the masterful Xazar ene every man may win lifes best victory vic-tory Rev Brown announced that next I Sunday night he would begin a new I course of Sunday evening lectures entitled en-titled Studies in the History of Liberty Lib-erty The subject of the first lecture will Bible be The Magna Charta and the |