Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l diced and Jealous people have neither good eye sight nor good judgment 1 We are tremendously crippled by our
 faults. We believe more In our own
 conceits than we do in the other per 1 sons efficiency The wisdom of any
 age Is not found under any hat, or any set of hats. God has fixed things sc
 that ability and genius cannet be
 can menopolize them. The men we
 underestimate we are fearful of un- 1 Ill We find our feverish Ideas were of l our own making and the fruit of our own misconceptions: and we are re-
 peatedly discovering our mistakes if
 we are observing. The man who l holds his opinions of others in reserve 1 hnds compensation in net having made
 a fool of himself.
 How many people seem to be so
 welded and welded to the truths of 1 the dead past that they are both
 deaf and blind to the live truths of 1 the present. There is no greater check
 to spiritual, or material progress than 1 a closed, or unreceptive mind. There l Is no reason why any man should be 1 afraid to denounce a humbug. or to ] espouse truth. What is truth We 1 are told that truth misunderstood or l misrepres scented, is an error; but we
 must of ourselves interpret truth to 1 make it our our own. Ready ma de | truths like ready made clothes are oft 1 en misft History shows what have been standard truths to a past generation are falsities to the next generation. Every one must seek the truth for himself; and we should re- member that all of truth is no more comprehensible than all of natures laws. Truth is old and ever new and there is enough of it to command the attention of men for all time.
 The minds eye maketh your day and mine what it is. Our disgust and our prejudices and our conceits cloud
 or or, brlghten each days sky for us. There is no real reason why the con- duct and opinions of others should
 disturb us so. If a thousand people say We are vile that does not make
 us so. The parent has no cause for anger because the children are so true to breeding that they cannot b0 obedient for that should be course for grief poignant enough to lead to reform. A grouch was never made more agreeable by responses to match his evil spirit. Where love and peace
 abide the shafts of the grouch leave
 no sting It is too much tit for tat in life that increases disturbance dis order and distress. When the minds eye sees straight there is an un- ruffled soul We must all live our own lives-no one can live our life for us, and the way we live increases eith-
 
 have too much acid in our blood It
 is as easy to be sweet as sour if we so will.
 Be what you would others should be like. This is the way to improve one's environment. We are foolish enough to think our children and our friends should be what we advise. Good ex- | ample has ten times the force Of good advice. The good captain is all y1yn in ho l,o l,o command: Forward, March," What good are the ten commandments to a family of children who witness the vii 1 OlatiOn of one or more of them in their own home every day? How can any
 one teach good principles whose con 1 duct diShOnOrs them. Truth even, is | made more impressive by loyalty to l it. The little deceptiOns in home life are too often the foundation of grosser 1 dishonesty in the lives of the chill i dren when they are grown up. Ju- venile souls inquiring the way of
 life deserve from us something bet 1 ter than misdirection and that is what 1 a bad example is. Do what is right 1 as well as preach it.
 1 The man who lives the simple life 1 is not the one who recognizes it's ad- i Vantages, or sings it's praises; for that 1 falls to the man who is able to live as ] he pleaSes, and usually to the one who l has lived high enough to impair his digestion and been brought face to | face with the error of his ways We l are all more or less slaves to appetite l We feast when it would be better to | fast. No one can fully appreciate an ! abundance of health until a condition i has been reached which awakens one | to the worth of it. The gluttOny of ! the people fills more graves than their | cOnViVial eXcesses; and yet, it is 1 against the latter we wage the inten- 1 sest warfare It is because we like to 1 tickle the palate that we have become ] a race of dyspeptics. ITO despise your ] own species" says Cotton, "is the price 1 we must often pay for a knowledge of 1 it. The man who is compelled to live plain laughs at the praise of it, and | the man who lives well doesn't endorse 1 it; but the rejunvenated invalid knows it was his salvation.
 "It is not talking but walking that will bring us to Heaven said a bril- iaint writer of the past who had the straight and narrow way in mind It Is not timing but doing that makes the heart realize that heaven Is within that the human soul devoted to good gets a glimpse of glory while sojourn- ing among men. II is the baptism of the spirit which reveals to man the joy and power of being a son of God Blessed is the person who grasps firmly the thought God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This great truth dissoIves many delusions. What the Father ever has done for man he is doing and will do. The day of miracles is not past. for life in all it's forms is a miracle to those who study it. It is necessary to know thy self to become godltke. How can we overcome our ignorance and excesses if we do not even realize then-or master our pre1udices and conceits if we do not study and recognize them !? 1 When we are rid of faults we shall be
 ready for Heaven.
 The man who doesn't talk should not be surprised if his wife gets as
 expert at cross -examing him as &
 Philadelphia lawyer. silent man is always suspected of being witless, or
 to be laying deep-laid plans by all who know him. Silence may be an evil dence of wisdom but 1t is not com monly taken at once as a symptom of superiority. The man who is not glib is suspected of being a storage plant
 of secrets; and what wife is not iusti-
 fled in trying to find out why her hus-
 band has combination lock on his
 tongue? What wife could ever con-
 ceive that it is just as natural for
 some men 10 dwell in silence. as 1t is
 for others to keep talking and not saying anything of any importance
 If a man doesn't tell what he Is think
 ing about his wife has to guess, of course, and she usually g-uesses some
 thing he never In the world lent his
 mind to. He should not get provoked
 with her for she is doing the best she
 can. Life Is a mystery from almost
 any view point.
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