Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

HILL InHN llO l ALAJ There are too many people in the 1 world flaming the fear flame because l they find that it is profitable for them | do it Flattery has been characterized as 8 finn Hammer, and fear is a panic l starter and cheat. It is because man | came to think that fear drives more l to duty than gratitude that fear is ex- cited to achieve certain ends, when ! the fact is that conversion to any | thing under the sun that is not | founded upon something more sub 1 stantial than fear will not last. Con- ! fidence is a rock. and fear q quagmire. ] The able and celebrated Witherspoon gave currency to the maxim, 1t is the fear of God that can deliver LIS from the fear of man. when it is really the love of God and the repose we find in His promises which make
 man fearless. Aristotle was conscious of the fact that mo one loves whom he fears Fear from it's very nature is a repellant, while love draws all things unto it. The intelligent man does not mind the fear-fl lamers- there is no reason why he should feat anybody, or thing, more than himself His faith should make him whole. It is not so strange that the Arabs believed in the phenix, the bird that could arise to new life from it's own ashes. in the light of modern science, for out of disorder by divine decree came order, and as an able writer puts It, "Out of laWleSsness came law, out of the formIess came form, out of sand
 and ashes arose houses, out of the dust of the ground was developed man; and to follow the analogy, out Of the invisible came the visible, even the brain of man who9is a son of God.
 Man is himself . creator, who, pat terning after natural forms. has been
 enabled to prove his heirship and to blaze the way toward the invisible realm which is eventually to be his
 home We are all manifestations of the power which at last is to gather us to itself in love and mercy. The
 brain of man, which conceives of life in all it's variety, interprets it and
 reaching out into space measures the planets and relative sizes of their suns, and recognizes there is more than one
 Universe, is greater than the things it defines, weighs and measures Such brain recognizes that all things as we'll as man are the expression of the Spirit
 Faith is something very much talked
 about and very little understood. We have been plainly told: Faith with out works is dead: hence, there ap- pears to be much of it that is ready for the undertaken. Faith is force, for 1t must generate energy, if it is worthy the name, and compel action.
 The man who has faith in his ability to become rich does not expect to possess wealth through idlenesS; and the man who has faith that scholar ship will make him great, ventures to master books, because looking in them will not serve his purpose. Coleridge says: Never did there exist a full faith in the divine word which did not I ho int yrioi1p flied
 the heart: which did not multiply the
 aims and objects of the understanding while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions Faith IS impelling because it is inspiring. If
 faith finds seat in man $ mind, if 1T finds speech by mans tongue, it does
 not leave his purpose indefinite or his
 hand idle AS the flower is before
 the fruit says Whately, "so is faith
 before good works" There is no mis- taking the real article.
 Whoever goes abroad with eyes to see cannot help observing how even the savages learned art from nature. The keen eye can always see pictures and get hints for decorating in the fields and woods. There is not only beauty of form, but taste and novelty in combination of form and color which appeal to persons of taste; and it is through the changing lights and shades that men have learned to make wonderful canvases which command pictures; Q valley and a stream sparse1y settled, framed in by the hills and dense in spots with woods. which are now taking on dazzling colors and
 art tones; tall mountains wreathed
 in clouds and abutted by foothills;
 wood bordered lakes with hills looming up in the distance; the broad, creek divided marshes, and the ever-moving ocean with it's beach and it's sand
 dunes in the foreground and it's ships in the distance a brook, flower-bor- dered, with it's fallen tree and fishing pool: a spring enclosed with wild flowers and ferns; a tree-trunk with red -foliaged vine; boulder with
 maidenhair ferns about it: the bright
 plumaged bird swaying on a spray;
 butterflys wing or a beetles bronze
 armor- plate all invite and inspire
 man to reproduce them in shade and color and form.
 We get surprised now and then by what ministers in the pulpit and min
 isters out of the pulpit have to say about things One this week as founded me by this declaration in print over his name: "I love those who love
 me and no one else. My soul loathes the uniformly pleasant to all. lndis crir1inate plea asantness is immoral. l love them that love me and there nev- CT was any mortal reasonsfor anybody to love another body. save only that!'
 And to prove he is right he opens his Bible at the Eipistle of John and quotes: Herein is love; not that we 1 loved God. but that He first loved us. Now this is not being taught the world by Gospel ministers. We do not care about criticising the orthodoxy of it. for he is doubtless orthodox to his cult and heterdox to all others In this he is not alone. am right and | everybody else is wrong. is far from being a rational sentiment. I do not see things as this writer sees them; but I notice he is net devoid of sense for he says he loves money because money will help him express personal ity and love; and he declares the kind of truth man wants from the Bible is dlyine ruth, not historical. The l best memory he declares. seeks to forget things He is queer fellow, but who of us has been commissioned to condemn him?
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