Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-18
The MAN WHO TALKS

It beats all what penchant some
people have for constantly expressing
their doubts insteads of their beliefs.
A doubt Is a pretty good thing to
hold constantly in reserve The world
does not care what we doubt; and it
does not appear to be deeply Impress
ed with what we believe, unless we
believe with the majority without any
very keen convictions 1t is not the
belief but the knowledge of things
which really forms firm foundation:
and to be conscious one is right is to
be fully aware of what the writer
meant who said: "One with God is a
majority. The human soul must
know where it stands, not simply think
1t is standing where uprightness once
stood. Borrowed reasons for any po-
sition taken in life are no more nor
less than borrowed troubles. There is
no truer saying than this: 1T is hard
to reason a man out of convictions
which he was never reasoned into"
To know path, one must do some-
thing more than look at it upon a map.
Il does not make much odds how
much we hear. the uses of adversely
talked up, the less experience we have
with 1t the better we like it. Field
ing is responsible for the saying:
Adversely is the trial of principle
without It man hardly knows wheth-
err he is honest or not" This may be
true; but we all feel willing that
George should have the adversely and
find out all about 1T, and then tell us.
We are all crying for the blessings of
prosperity and the good things that
come along prosperity Lines. 1t seems
to us that mans inheritance is health
and joy and all "the cosmic merri-
ment" he can get out of life; and that
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of pain, which come of the violation
of law and warn him to seek new
paths and sin no more. We doubtless
learn much from adversely; but we
need not invite 1T just to be "divinely
polished" since there are other and
better methods Of getting the same re-
suits. Whoever is In the competitions
of life does not have to be told the orr
gin of adversely.
The new maid is often a trial be-
cause of her lack of judgment in do
ing things about house. An amusing
bit of gossip is going the rounds now
about a new maids conduct in a fam
lily living not a thousand miles from
Norwich. AS she came highly recon-:
mended she was trusted to take
charge of and serve the refreshments
to the guests of an evening soon after
her arrival. The refreshments were
though her mathematics got her into
trouble, for she just counted the
guests. apportioned the refreshments
accordingly, and when she served them
they were too generously distributed,
and the mistress and her liege lord
had to sit and witness the lunch like
two intruders. It could not be helped,
and when it was all over Mary said
she never before had forgotten her en-
ployers, and she could not tell how it
happened. There was a laugh over
it, and there is no danger the mis-
take will be repeated, for the maid
has proven her efficiency and is grow
ing in popularity with her employers
every week. The endorsements of
first trials account for many mistakes.
II has been said that it is a poor
kind of religion which inspires a man
to pray for mankind one day in the
trade the other six days This is the
man who has trained himself to be-
lieve that religion is one thing and
trade another. The man who feels
religion is life does not separate it
from his daily duties or daily bust
make a convenience of religion and
put it on and off as they would a coat.
1t is pictured in their minds as sort
of Hfe-preserver they can cling to in
the hour of peril with hope, because
they have not made of it an illumina-
tor of their minds, guide in business
and a joy forever. The religion which
does not weave itself into the lives
and conduct of men is the non effect
i've and superficial kind which delights
the devil because OF its deceptiveness.
Did you ever think Of the temptation
of a bad smell? 1t does not appear as
if malodorous thing could be pull
against good resolution; but it sure
ly Is. There was a young man who
decided at the commencement of Lent
that he would cut out the use of cigar
cites because it would please mother,
and Almira, and perhaps be real i'm
provement to himself in more ways
than one. 1t was a real good Lenten
resolution to make, and it would
have been 11onored. the young man
says, had he not smelled one
of the darned things when he
was on his way to business. Did you
most persons to hold their noses or
flee: but it just clasps its victim with
arms of iron and knocks down resolu-
ton and joys manhood down another
notch. This is not much Of an excuse
for breaking resolution, but It does
weak man to resume strong habit
Habit quietly makes slaves of US all
Good habits are said to form a large
part of.our piety.
How innocent movements on the
part OF strangers are miscOnStrued
because we belong to suspicious
race. The most innocent diversions
sometimes excite our worst fears
One neighborhood has been all stirred
up of late because Of the strange con-
duct OF two young men who every
morning early visited place and
scrutinized it with such interest that
the neighbors thought they had some
wicked design in their mind, ano
something criminal was going to hap
pen there; but 1T was not When the
nervous excitement was at its height
and robbers and f1re-fiends were be-
Ing dreamed of every night, it was
learned that the suspicious young mer
had bought the property and came
around every morning early just tt
admire 1t and to contemplate future
improvements. They were industrious
young men and had they realized how
they were being suspected perhaps
they would have been sorry they eve1
bought property there. When it comes
to such Incidents as this we look like
poor worms of the dust.
do not know whether there wat
ever anything written in poetry truel
than the following verse: 1T takes SC
little to make us sad, Just a. sighting
word or a doubling sneer. Just I
scornful smile on lips held dear; anf
our footsteps lag. though the goa
seemed near, and we lose the courage
and hope we had-so little it takes t.
make us sad" We all understand thi,
part of 1t; and most of us are blint