Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The commonplace hour is the hour in
every day which should be moulding
1.-The man for greater achievements. The
! law of this life is that in achieving for
others We make way II advancement
for ourselves. The mind opens for us
or closes the door of opportunity. Ii
we do not care for the success of our
employer he soon discovers IL and
does not care for our well being. Iy
sn unwritten law good begets good in
this life, ana meanness begets mean
ness. It is up to every worker In the
of his character and perception that lie
| Is fitted for something better The
| man who does not strive by the SKID
he develops, and by a kindly spirit
and good Judgment to impress others
as to his ability and deserts stays in
the ditch forever. No man has ever
succeeded in lifting himself BY his
own bootstraps.; but tens of thousands
have lifted themselves in the estima-
ton of others, and paved the way to
a better and more useful and more re-
munerative career by getting into the
real spirit of the Golden Rule and let
ting 1t dominate their lives. The hog
that gets out of the pen is no more
respected than the hog that does not.
Have you any of the evidences that
you are advancing in life, or are you
just nloping? The first thing to Go is
TO get your mind off yourself, for be-
coming salf-centered results i'll becom-
ing mentally blInd-to be obscured by
mental darkness. John RTskin wrote:
He only is advancing in life whose
heart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer. whose brain quicker, whose
spirit is entering the living peace"
Others may ilIumine your mind, bu-
it is up to you to take yourself along
the way; and If you believe anything
to know why you believe it. 1t is not
development to believe things because
ey0h0 1o h HdR n n
them, for human supremacy requires
that man should know the why and
the wherefore of all that Within him
is. To profess is not to possess; and
the road between these points is ire
quently hard to travel; bat tie harder
the road the more satisfactory the
achievement. Work is the slogan OF
Nature: End to those who worl. with
confidence and faith gain power and
every good thing that goes with it.
1t has been divinely decreed that mans
hest doing in this world shan be his
best enjoyment.
There is too much posthumous 40
nniration in this world Men do not
find out what nice wives they have
until after they have died; and wo-
men cannot praise too much husbands
they were not famous for praising
when they were alive How much
better it is for partners to let one
another know they are appreciated
now. What good does it do when the
parson calls with his condolences, to
say when he says: You have lost
a real helpmate, brother" She was
more than that to me. for she was a
right arm for forty years.! HOW II
would have gladdcned the heart that
is still to have heard such words of
unsought praise. we good men and
women are mfSnty economical of the
fine phrases which are in our minds
and which we are too prone to let 9TH
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have been most appreciated by and to
whom they would really have been in
spiration and joy. Under cur men
made laws we expect too much as
matter OF course from one another,
and forget the little courtesies which
hearten souls and delight them. II
is not strange that mortals get dis
I.;rited and that partners come TO dis
trl st one another under our selfish
and chilly civilized methods.
We all feel that there has beer a
great change in the climate since we
were children; but when we sift the
idea there appears to be no doubt that
the difference is in us, not in the eli
mate. A youth recently called my at
tention to the fact that the snow was
not so deep now when he was a
kid; but you notice he is now more
than twice as tall and the relative diff
ference of things to him has changed
The representatives of every genera
ton always notice the difference in
the depth of the snow and the fntensf-
ty of the cold, etc, between juvenility
and age; and have been doing SO from
time immemoriaI. If we understood
the cycles of time, doubtless, we should
find that they run about as even as
clockwork. SO that-it may not get too
wet or too dry, Nature alternates her
rainfalls and gives Us two wet years
and three dry ones; and then alter
mates to three Wet and two dry; and
rxrh hn al ri &
withholds the rains to give opportun
ity for the moisture to evaporate and
the earth to sYeeten up; and we are
distressed by the drouth as aff1ic
ton when 1T is not possible to get
along without 1t. We mortals find
fault with a great many beneficial con-
ditions.