Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-11
THINGS IN LIFE
 LIKE MARCH WEATHER.
Parallels Drawn by Rev. CHI. Ricketts
 In Shop Talk.

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 March Weather in Life was the time ly topic taken by Rev. c. H. Ricketts of Greeneville Congregational church for the noon hour shop talk on We'd nesday at the McCrum Howell com pany under the auspices of the Y M. c. A. It was the 18th talk given there by Rev. MT. Ricketts and the Fist in the series. The music for the meeting was by Raymond B. Eldred in violin solos, which were artistically rendered.
 Rev. Mir. Ricketts said in part:
 Most Unpopular Month.
 That March is the most unpopular month in the year goes without say ing, and it Is equally true that It ha. come honestly by it's unsavory reputa tion. It must be admitted that Marcl itself, by it's bad manners, Is Iargei, responsible for the fun that is pokec at it, for the jeers and jibes, the scoWls and the curses that are hurled at il It Is clear that March is way down 1T the human stock market and it is tht down things that the bears are alWay; after.
 Don't forget, men, that March is link in the chain for the eternal orde just as much as June or October, an through it's wild excesses of storm an stress we can see the shadoWy outlino of a great white hand unshaken b, caprice as it grasps the throttle valve the hand that governs all things il justice and love.
 Parallel in Human Life.
 The month of March finds it's coun- terpart in human life--in your life am mine. Human lige, like the surface O the earth, takes in about everything There are times when sunny meadow and uplands rosy and fair predoml- nate; at other times it is the wind swept mountain peak touched with ice and zero cold that must be experienced To have a full-Orbed earth the one ls as necessary as the other
 You know what it is to have the higl gales enter and break up the quietudf of the home; to disturb every function of the minG and bend the poor sentitivt heart to the breaking point! Is it 2 strange experience for any man to havC those seasons in which he is tossed about by violent forces that are CT tirely beyond his control? Live as wf may that universal force which we ca disease, in whose clutch we are some times powerless, will come. Live as w may some one will misunderstood Us and hence misjudge and misrepresen' us. Live as we may we all of us af some period of our lives are made tC feel the full force of envy and jealousv and the sting of malicious cruelty. Live as we may we shall one day feel tho cold clutch of that grim overlord whic' for want of a better name we ca death. These are some of the higf l gales that disturb human life; it is th' March rule in the calendar of the soul But it is well to remember that Ma! and June are coming.
 Whims and Caprices.
 Is it not true that human life is full of whims, caprices and hypocrisies- just like March?
 It is not difficult to get along witl whims and caprices. We smile at then and then pass them by as weaknesses l that belong to our common human nature There is not so much differ ence in whims themselves as in tn. men who are whimsical A peculiar man who lives in the slums is calle6 | cranky or crazy; if he lives on Fifti avenue 1t is an idiosyncrasy that indi- | cates genius. If q strange man with l out a dollar commits murder we cal ] him a lunatic; if he has social anC | financial standing he is simply afflicted with a temporary brain storm lI ] LlllS age we ulGeASul C WIlAlllo4SelA ellil l caprices by the section of the city z man lives in and by the fnery (paiC for or unpaid) that adorns the back.
 Hypocrisy.
 Now these things are harmless ano l we can laugh at them as when th, 1 March wind takes a boys cap ant 1 whirIs it over into some ones bacl yard. But when we come to hypocrisy another trait of life of which Marcl 1 is Q reminder, we face an entirely diff | ferent proposition, "and from this' W, say, in the language of the Book O l Common Prayer, good Lord defen' us!" It is the kiss of Judas that has stab in if.
 Hope for the Future.
 In human life we meet much that il uncertain. 'SWhat will the morrow bring forth?' is a question we are al l trying to solve. It is many years sine | our country has been in a state O 1 greater industrial unrest than today | We might as well look at these fact just as they are without trying to min i imize them. There are far reachin' religious and kindred problems tha are puzzling thoughtful students, sucl as poverty, vice, crime and all kind l of wrong. But I love to think tha 1 even the March in human life at lengtl yields to April and May. The tim has come for the singing of the birds and soon the flowers will bloom. Le us hope that this will be true indus trially