Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS

I often wonder just how serious a matter life is to those who are always warning others against taking it too lightly. Perhaps you have known
 real good people who have thought it necessary to live for a future world
 instead of for the present-who in
 word and action appear to have con
 ceiyed the idea that God created man
 to be damned instead of to be blessed; !;
 and that life of beseechment for His
 mercy is what this transtory condi :
 ton really is, when, in fact, Gods in
 tent must have been that men, of this
 earth. should create a heaven. It is
 not the empty and frivolous life which
 gives the greatest pleasure. but a life
 of unselfishnesS which is productive of
 good works and good humor. A long
 face as symbol of piety is a carica-
 ture of something holy The way to
 get joy out of life is to put joy into it: and the way to get misery is to
 entertain irrational ideas and try to
 make them practical. The fact is. life
 is a service; and the man who truly
 serves his fellownen is serving God
 .he man who is true to the laws of his
 being is long-lived and happy. The
 ideal life should pe lived here, and
 that gives assurance of a better after
 life.
 If you wake up some day and are
 fnCuneH to De SuSpiClOuS. Just CuTD
 yourself-call yourself to order-for if you do not know it you may learn
 that it is possible for q person to entertain more kinds of suspicion than anybody can find in an unabridged dictionary. Man was given power to
 become skilled at anything he cher
 ishes; and he can become as expert in
 doing evil as in doing good works; but expertness in one way becomes the evidence of our villainy while in the S witness
 Man is heir to a great deal of freedom, and he has shown that he is not an adept q making the best use of it. He gets freedom and license all mixed up and makes trou ble for himself in his confusion which he cannot understand. When old Suspicion takes a person by the arm he leads him away from no bility into the dark avenues of Time, and he inoculates him with the poison which kills faith and love Nand holi- ness. It is not necessary to seek evil compa nions, for imagination can fur nish some of the worst-man can be self-polluting as well as a corrupter of others.
 As architects of our own days we show a great diversity of talent When we take time tC look them over we do not have many to be proud of. There are too many just ordinary numdrum days among them which are below record standard. We ought to learn something new every day; but we do not. The few who begin this thereby made eminent. Just a common day is like any other common thing. not so very bad but about what you'd expect. It is the unexpected that counts in life both for better and for worse. Of course, there is nothing startling about regular pursuits, but there is something meritorious in a lsvel-best endeaVor. Any man about not like a moper. Wearing days out for what there is in them for us, re- gardless Of the interest of an em- ployer is not the way to do them up brown The reason We should do our best today is because we are dead to yesterday and not born to tomorrow 4 day well lived and repeated is all that makes the greatest life.
 The blessing of good health is found ed upon knowledge of how to keep well. I nave noticed what we call blessings are not always special fla yors from heaven; but just the ri- pened fruit of common sense Some
 men have more health than others be- cause they know more about sanitary measures and health protection, or are more temperate in all they do. action in all sorts of ways brings human beings to grief One hazards nothing in saving more people eat themselves into misery than drink themselves into the grave. It has been demonstrated that a well balanced ration weighing pound will, if taken daily, keep a man alive and well. The intemperance at table va ries from eating all the way up to an average of four pounds day, which is the average restaurant calculation [, boarders. Any person wine is taking more food daily than can be assin- Hated. or disposed of. is clogging up the machinery, and cloeged machinery is steadily losing it's efficiency until it breaks down altogether. Natural hunger can get lost, and an unnatural appetite act a substitute to the de- struction of it's victims. God requires reasonable action on the part of His sons if they expect to be blessed.
 Many men live long lives and die without ever getting 9 clear vision of how thoroughly they have been gov erned by money Under all forms of government money governs the people most and there is no escarsng its sway. The avera~e m@n has little to do with the pub ic officials in a re- public like this; and the administrators of the law and enforcers of order care =ttle for him except the support they raD win from him about election time. Man shares a general benefit from the order and protection which or s:sriZed communities secure for all concerned, The men who control cap
  vides us with work and how much we shall be paid for labor and prod nee; and what we shall pay for every hing we have; and within the salary earned we must find our rank which depends upon how we are educated i've and dress. And money governs SO quietly and regulates all of our concerns without elections or much ,gitation, that we often get a notion hat we do it all instead of the real governors of life. Money is the gov ernor which all governments acknowl- sdge efaciously and do special favors or. Since We cannot get along with put money it looks as if Old Money