Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

rather look like a savage or cow boy than a civilized boy. or saint tion with the affirmation that 1t Is because of mans total depravity. A hundred years ago such an answer would have satisfied all the world, but today it. does not find endorsement with half of it. This idea is SC pop ulaf in Wisconsin that the state has fnterfered to stop photographers from making pictures of boys in wild weGt regalfa, with rifle in hand and a cig arctic in their mouths as a means of increasing business as an immoral and youth -corrupting method. It is be- cause the American boy of this age Is bred in an atmosphere of Sensa- tfonalism which is far from being vor. The American boy would not desire to be a savage if the savage did not excite more admiration than the civilized type. The boy is out oi joint because the times be.
 It looks as if this country was too free for loutS and not free enough for self-res specting and law abiding people. In this age of civilization and have surprised the world to see what a low and disorderIy assault was made upon women at Washington in the streets. American womanhood has as much right to parade the American manhood. While hoodlum- ism has no rights law and order should respect, I am not able to get a high opinion of any man who is willing his with dogs and outcasts. The lord of creation idea" has been clung to until man ought to blush for shame.
 Haven't you been surprised in this life by the profeSsedly respectable and religious men who support vice? There are too many men who associate with upright people and look clean and saintiy by day, who if shadowed by night will perjure themselves to prove an alibi In other words wolves in sheep's clothing and hypocrites are too numerous in all communities. When 1 was younger I shared in the pre- judice against those who cater tosVice; but now simply sit and ponder con- corning those who support it in our highly enlightened and civilized cities, in most of which it is legal bus mess which is as near as Christian communities can come to making vice respectable. Do not curse the man who profits by it-he gets eur money and we get a little of it back.
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 My attention has been called to the fact that people dependent upon char ity attend the moving picture shows, and the opinion is that they might spend their money better. I have some doubts about that It seems to me as if the poor and needy are entitled to 3 little recreation and entertainment If they can get it. The state recognizes this need and furnishes both to it's prisons and insane retreats, althous h it is not quite as thoughtful about its poor, who are not wholly neglected, since their need is met by the service of live and sympathetic people. I can imagine that the same sort of people give nickels to these poor folks so they may attend 4the movies" for surely there is no place where they can get more for their money in that line. I never shall begrudge the poor any temporary joys or diversions they I do.
 Do you know good credit is a mis- fortune to a weak but honest man? It makes it too easy for him to get what he wants, and tends to keep him reliable debtor. The credit founded upon he pays" is not quite as enjoy able as the credit which is based upon assets or collateral of any sort; and r. is always too near the verge of poor credit. as a little adversity is likely at any time to swamp such an honest, buoyant chap. Good health honesty and industrious habits are assets trade is willing to bank on. and the tempta ton to be careless rather than care full buyers has been too great for many such men. Do not prize credit. Ii is not such a wonderful thing to be a bic to go~ and get everything you
 
 oue doesn't need that bankrupts most people. The credit based upon a sub- stantial surplus is the real thing.
 often think the seeker after truth hasn't an easy stunt. It takes a. man nearly half a century to get his eye teeth cut, and so many die before they are 40 that a large part of the people do not get a good conception of life. There is no f1nality to the averment: Know the truth and the truth will make you freei' Truth as whole F incomprehenslble. Every truth con tributes to our freedom because it re- leases from error and increases light This Is the whole service of truth. Great gospel truths give the soul hope and an assurance which exalt it above fear and the menaces of life. Other truths give breadth and power and a bflity and confidence and success. The seeker after truth has no chance to be idle. and he needs be wide awake sixteen hours a day. Truth like op- portunity does not knock at his door truth sits visible in the mind only af- ter 1t has been recognized.
 All that sIitters is not aoid; and gold is not all that. glitters, but most everything that glitters finds a well come somewhere bv somebody. The sovereign creature God has made takes to,tinsel-never gets tired of show. The
 
 in childhood over the Christmas tree with it's glitter and it's gifts never wholly departs from us. We like to shine fgurattvely and in every other sense. We feel we have just as much right to shine as the sun, and doubt less we have: but there is the real and the counterfeit. and the counter felt appears to be too abundant. Seem ing and being are so different that the first hasn't a leg to stand on when it is challenged. This Is why 1t is well to be the real stuff. Then the acid test will not hurt you.
 You have met the man who is go- ing to put you up against something that will double your pile in just six but if you have felt grateful that he took such keen interest in you and followed the way he pointed out, you know now that his nest has been feathered with your money. and you do not know of any feathers hay ing been added to yours. It beats all how slick a trained agent can talk us out of our surplus cash; but that is because he knows our weakness and we do not suspect his guile. Ignor- ance magnifies craftiness in many ways and makes it appear like good fellowship and other good qualities. It is up to us to be live wires in this world and then we should be shocking the other fellow instead of IAffipo hin,