Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS

\ THE MAN WHO TALKS l When ~man as a friend asks you to do things for him he would not dc for you. it is time to ask for time te consider the favor. Many a man has endorsed note for large amount who paid a high price to learn that
 things may be dene in haste that il
 does no good to repent at leisure
 Never take a friend too seriously and
 think you have a friend you could
 trust to carry your wallet for you. Ii
 is more safe and more sensible to
 carry your own wallet. We beat our
 selves because we entertain fool ideas,
 1t IS quite sensible to remember the
 good die young. and that none are
 perfect but bachelors wives and old
 maids children Sometimes honesty
 is only skin deep. A friendship which
 involves a mans private interests is
 perilous and seldom what it pretends
 to be.
 Conditions have a force which we
 do not always reflect upon. For in
 stance. the minister was right when
 he had concluded a sermon upon hell
 in cold meeting house and asked the
 deaconS what effect such warning
 had upon the ungodly who were sh1V7
 ering with the cold, and longing Tor
 warmth? The deacons doubtless saw
 the point What good does 1t do to
 warn children against little vices in
 Sunday school if the teacher or super
 intendent, or both are openly practis-
 ing them? If indulgent parents allow
 their children more money per week
 to spend than they could possibly earn
 what good does it do to warn them against extravaganza? We are not
 -s.>l F,,J ,,rrla s~f hn faaf a
 sel and example must harrnonize if
 we expect counsel to be effective. It is no wonder consistency is regarded
 as jewel. it is so rarely discovered in
 the conduct of men.
 It Is the busy woman who does not have time to be miserable. No one has ever been made happy by doing nothing. When time hangs heavy on your hands your mind is getting un steady. too Occupation has been call- ed natures phy sician, work is so es- sential to health and happiness; and the want of work has been likened unto plague 1t is so blighting. It is a good rule of life not to get too mucn addicted to only one thing. Variety is the spice of life for all of us. It is our duties not our woes which should occupy our minds. We should cherish a memory of our blessings rather than of our misfortunes.Pe Only the idle sit down with despair and cultivate new crop of megrims every day. Cowper tells us; absence of occupa- tion is not rest a mind quite vacant is mind distressed.
 l have discovered that haven't "a gentleman's cellar" and never had one and I do not grieve that I am out -classed in this respect. have noticed where there is "a gentleman's cellar" there are sometimes functions at the conclusion of which one or two have to be put to bed and kept until if they are too respectable to be trundled home in a wheel barrow as dead freight and left to re- cover their sober senses. "A gentle mans cellar is good foundation fo- inks. I wonder whether it is the per feet gentleman, or the imperfect gen. tleman, who finds such a cellar really necessary. From recent revelations one might think it was impossible to be recognized as d gentleman unless 1ne keeps a equipped wine cellar. Here's to you!'' and wont you have another with mel" must be real gen. -lemanly salutations; but 1 fail 70 think so
 We do not often call to mind the ,act that 1t was agriculture which an- ,hored the nomadic races. It was the nan behind the hoe who first com handed the rowing tribes of earth to laltt to take root; to become stabla, Q gather power to wrest from nature heir full inheritance. Stability was fixed in deeds by the men behind the i loe before it was framed in letters md given to speech and, the dlct1on- try The average man calls farmers 1 laySeeds, but Daniel Webster declared | the farmers are the founders of civil | zation and prosperity The Shep 1 lerds of the East. and what were they | ut farmers. laid the foundations of | stronon1y and gave to literature some | f the most impressive figures Of beech It is not intelligence which | idicules the farmer for history shows hat from ploWman to king he has aade his way and left an honorable ecord.
 We think that slavery is abolished n lthis country, but it isn't Slavery ahnot be abolished by decrees, but nly by that condition of the human cart which will sustain no system O. 1justice against our fellow men. It yas Garrick who pointed out that cor upted freeman are the worst of layes; and we still have plenty of hem. The confederates of the South TerG every one more HOHOIdOlS liAolh 1ese rcorrupters of voters who teach liens to become citizens by false pre- ance, for they are honeycombing the cry foundations of free governme nt l the dark while our so-called rebels ought hoping for what they thought as their right Whatever makes man
 slave takes half his worth away avs Pope, and any wage system which educes men to starvation wages IS
 more dispicable system of slavery lan that once openly recognized m lis country. Slavery, declared Soc ates is a system of outrage and rob- cry" Think you not that we stlu ave such systems.
 The christian world is slow. We do ot realize how slow 1t is until we leasure :. 1t for progress by a simple It has been said for nth that the first lesson in Christs ,hool was self-denial; and have you oticed that self-denial is practiced to ny great extent in any christian 1untry Self denial is not giving for enevolent purposes from our surplus, IT self denial inVadeS our very joys and eeds. Oliver Wendell Holmes defined elf-denial as the rare virtue good len preach and good women prac- ce." It is warfare against ones oWa ppetites and passions, and if you re- ize how often you have been van- uished in small trials you, know how tterly the christian world has failed ong these lines. It was Jewish abbi who told a conference of chris an ministers at Boston that in his oinion christianity had not proven to g a failure because it had never been jed The christian world does not lily sense the power of God because Adoes not toe the mark.