Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-06

On the other hand, he has not had an easy time, since usually he has been the odd or queer member of theefam- fly, the church. the lodge, the grange, the business partnership. He has us- uaIly been greatly outnumbered by as- sociates with conservative instincts, who have called him long-hairSd, of if he be a woman, short-haired, who have stigmatized him as visionary and a rainbow chaser. Now such man has to be a pretty good Christian to keep his temper under such provoca- ton. once lived with a man to whom the slightest arrangement of furni- ture in the parlor was trial. When 1t was proposed by the rest of the family that they should have dinner at night rather than at noon, he went into a tantFum. He wanted to jog along year in and year out in the same old ruts. For a man who has learned, with Phillips Brooks, to Tive loosely in his surroundings" who thinks tomorrow ought to be better than today, to be yoked up to family or business or civic relationship to ultra conservatives, Is, indeed, a cross, and he has pretty good command of himself If he can keep good natured throughout this ordeal and still not abate one bit of his loyalty to pro- gressive Ideals.
 put NAC AauF~dA ID IlOL 0O AOAIAg No he used to be. l opine that there is more of him to the square mile than ever before In the worlds history. The tides of human thought are all setting in the direction of improve ment of social and industrial condi- tions. It is just splendid this noble dissatisfaction with corruption, graft, either military or industrial We are all socialists these days" is a remark frequently heard, even in miAisteFal gatherings. Of course. that Is a crude and inexact way of statine that relig- ious leaders generally are widely inn pressed with the inequalities and de- privations evident as one gains a thor ough knowledge of his fellow beings. not only in the favored section of great cities and In comfortable frame houses, but as he sees the fostering sores of the tenement house and the poverty of certain rural districts. Fall low soil the radical finds today in which to plant his seeds of agitation. The world is bent on going forward and will not be forever held back by those whose faces are toward the past.
 So we need to be oonsIderate of the radical even though we may think that if the reins were passed over en- tirely to nim ne would drive the chart- ot to destruction. The reins are never going to be passed over totally to him. There will always remain in the com munty sufficient sober, second thought and candid good sense to block the revolutionary designs of men who see only half a truth.
 The radical Is himself acquiring a good measure of patience and forbear- ance. Tn his friskier moments he says. as did one of the impetuous, but good tempered abolitionists a good many years ago, '@The trouble Is that I am in hurry and God is not" He bs- gins to see, in some cases, at least, that we cannot make this world over before tonight's sunset A eood par able for him occasionally to read is that of the wheat and the tares, re-. ported ip the 18th chapter of Matthew. Its teaching is that -ood and evil are intermlxed in this world and that the radical who would uproot the evil must look out lest the same vigorous stroke destroy the good. Yes Mir. Radical, go to the roots of things, but leave the wheat standing.
 TkzE RARG0N.