Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS


Some men conduct themselves as
though nice words in conference meet
ing atone for glaring cheats in BUSH
ness. 1t is wonderful how people can
delude themselves. Some men who put
sand in, the sugar would have done
religious life. There is not so much
TO be said against sand if it is prop
erly used, but as a false pretense it
is just like every other false pretense.
The man of faith need not talk much
about it, for it will surely be expressed
in his works When faith. Is only ex-
pressed in words II Is without sub
stance-is not a force. Some dishonest
people use faith just as the dishonest
grocer uses sand, they sprinkle it into
the sweetness of life expecting to make
the world think that it is the real
thing. The smartest of these are
sure they have fooled the world when
they have only fooled themselves. II
is when in our conceit we think that
we are wise, that our fellowmen see
clearest just what we are.
The ant season is on, and a good
many neat housewives do slaot know
what TO do to be rid of them-they
cannot be brought to think that these
invaders of the breadpails and sugar
boxes are too interesting to kill. Ants
formed governments before man did
and put other insects to domestic use.
fought battles and made slaves before
man had come to abuse his power
Solomon said: Go to the ant thou
sluggard aand learn wisdom" That
may have meant to learn that industry
works wonders, or that folly works
destruction. Since Solomon's day the
ant has taught men both these things.
The Industrial ants guard their COM
munities. herd their cows-Aphides-
and possess their souls in peace and
Independence; but the slave making
ants deteriorate in size and become
so dependent that they cannot feed
themselves and die when the slaves are
taken from them and when the nest
is moved the slaves do all the work
and carry them to the new home.
The superior ant is inferior finally
in everything but pretense. There is
no use of wondering how the slave
making art became SUCH lazy dolt
and lost his energy-he drifted into
folly just as men do, probably.
Some people enjoy the mountain top
for summer recreation, but / do not.
There is nothing that will take the
conceit out of thinking man like
birdseye view of things. From a noun
tain top everything looks diminutive
that man has made down in the valley
and Gods hills and sky and oceans
only appear to be of a size worth men,
tioning. And these mountain peaks tell
their own story-some are crowned by
Plutonic rocks and some by organic
rocks, and none of them are half the
age of the world. Some came up from
the hot heart of the globe itself, and
some were forced up from the bottom
of an ancient deep, deep sea. The
peaks of the Cordilleras of South
America three and one-half miles high,
were formed at the bottom of deep
sea and are crowned with rocks con-
tanning the marine dead; and so 1T is
with tops of hills in Australia which
are now hundreds of feet above sea
level and $50 miles from the coast. This
old world has witnessed many changes
since the spirit of life encompassed 1t.
and this knowledge is what gave coin
age to the declaration that everything
changes except God" The fossil shells
and corals and fish Of the mountain
tops have q past man cannot fully
comprehend.