Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS

1t has been said the poorest edu-
 cation which teaches self-control is
 better than the best that neglect it.'
 The self-pos sessed man is always the
 dependa hlc one-the wonder of his
 fellows in any peril or exigency. Civ
 ing way to wrath and moods makes
 the mentally brilliant appear ridicu-
 louS. and the physically able worthless
 when they should be dignified or ser
 Viceable. It is the uncomfortable say
 age in man which impairs his nobility
 and worth. The children should early
 be taught self control, but they cannot
 be with parents and teachers who have
 none. l. isn't necessary to teach chil-
 dren 10 be gentlemen and ladies for
 they cannot be true men and women
 and fail in this respect It is be-
 cause adults know so little that chu-
 dren are not better taught.
 l saw an alcohoIed specimen of hu-
 manftS greet an acquaintance whose features showed he was not a stranger
 to John Barleycorn the other day; but i there was no response because the man greeted was ashamed of the con-
 dItI0n and appearance of the greeter l did not blame him for looking the other way, for the pickled specimen of
 man was enough to disgust a dog. He was all in. He was proving in the public thoroughfare the truth of
 Sinciair's statement that drunken i ness places man as much below the
 level of the brute as reason elevates | him above him. He was a sermon to the observing and a scorecrow to ! the incorporate. No one desired to ! be like him. He was an eff1gy of what i he had been and an example of what i an incorporate man may become. No ] one was to blame for being ashamed i of him, for he could not have felt proud of himself.
 How the world likes to gossip 1 how it enjoys the sound of it's own voice. It is an old habit, and per haps the story of Adam and Eve and Jonah and the whale were preserved i to just show the moderns that the race i knew how to gossip when it was ] young. Gossip has been defined as i the art of putting two and two to- l gether and making it five; and when i gosSipers get together they are usually 1 engaged in repeating things that are
 not so. Truth is never fast enough 1 for sensational people, or peppery 1 enough for the suspicious Gossip pre- l tends to have the eyes of an Argus i when it is as blind as a bat. It car i rieS a pleasing sound to those who like 1 to know all about their neighbors, and 1 who take most interest in their vices or eccenriCities. Too much of it has ] to be whispered and cannot be too soon forgotten; and yet some people think it is the only way to be enter taining. The world should talk less about persons and more about things. 8eecher was right when he said: l Heaven must be in me before I can l be in Heaven" This is an undeniable | truth. When love, hope and charity are well installed in the heart, and the 1 mind is conscious of the nearneSs of God, the indwelling of the Creator l with his creatures. man has posses i sions which assure him of the divine ness of the life that is and
 of the life to come. Heaven is 1 revealed to the mind which finds 1 which recognizes the correct laws of life and honors them. The true man must be temperate in all things and 1 love justice and mercy. The Lord is i deaf to the prayers of Dr. Jekyll for 1 MT. Hyde-Jekyll must cut Hyde out! God did not appoint one day in the week for the forgiveness of our dou- bIe-dealing with our fellowmen on the ] other six days. Our fitness for l Heaven is our title to it, and there 1 is no winning out on a pretense that we will do better bye and bye
 l The minister in the pulpit who has ! saVages instead of Christians in the 1 pews has my sympathies. The pew i holders who treat strangers as they i do tTamps a the backdoor are a det- riment to increase of membership. The 1 hog is never attractive anywhere, ! whether he is in the pew, parlOr or end of a trolley car seat The church | that Compels the stranger to wait till ] the peWholders all get in, is never 1 likely to be popular with visitors. The pewholders who scowl or make Offen l sive remarks when they find a stran- l ger in their pew must make the an gels weep, or the gods laugh. SeI- l fishness is not a virtue, hut one of l the rankest of faults. How many peo- ] pie have been disconcerted by the 1 conduct of the savage and impolite i pewhOlder. Gods house deserves to i have better tenants Where they do 1 not have they often become stables 1 or bowling alleys.
 1 A franE pNson is seldom popular because truth seems so diSagreea ble. ] We prefer those who fiatter to those i whC criticise. It really does us good to i have cur attention called to our i faults, and none of us are free from 1 them. Our Conceit needs no stimu- 1 l8nt, and hence fattery is generally ] weakening or injurious. It is the habit of fiattery to StreW the primrose path
 to the eternal bow VOWS with pretty l figures of speech that il may be al l turing. We only enjoy criticism of the l other person-we do not find pleasure l in remarks which fit us. We are not l taught to say what we think, but to i frame our speech to please. This is ] one of the reasons truth has such a poor show in life. The art of con versation is a real accomplishment, I and where there is so much art there ] is little honesty. We cannot reform i the world. but by insistence we may 1 improve ourselves.
 1 It may be we'll to think once in a while that while man feeds on prov i inder Time feeds on life We do not ! seem to mind if an this round globe l a hundred thousand persons pay the debt of nature daily Life ends and renews with wonderful constancy, and 1 we huTrah for the people; and well i we may, for the people like the brook seem to go on forever. Perhaps this | is the reason Christ taught us to pray: i Give us this day our daily bread 1 Time is not our inheritance but this i day, Man is sure of nothing but now, and what goes with it. The great l fact is life is a service"-as Faber 1 puts it, "and iifes greatest question: Who shall we serve?" William Penn ] declared the truest end of life is to know the life that never ends" Time i is long enough, however short if it is 1 used alright. It was at the end of a wasted life that Queen Eliza beth said All of my possessions for a moment of time" How often do we think of our precious moments?
 1 Indigestion is supposed to be the ] fruitful source of dreams: and healthy i people are supposed to be free from l them A night mare is dream that would freighten a horse; there is sel- ! dom a horse in it. The idea that dreams are the rehearsal of vagaries