Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-01
THE MAN WHO TALKS

You offer the average man a cigar
 and he accepts 1t with Smile but you offer the same man good advice,
 and he meets ir with a frown. That
 which is best for him he greets with
 least favor. Why? Because he re-
 eards the cigar as gift. and good
 advice as effrontery, or meddlesome-
 ness, which might, perhaps, be called
 truly ipe-dream. Our sight IS reg
 ulated by the interpretatio the mind
 puts upon acts, and this is what makes
 so many of us blind to the truth 1ou
 see from this comparison of acts on
 the part of the average man 1hat
 when vice and advice get close to-
 gether on the same plane. vice shows
 no Weakness-man shows that! We do
 not see ourselves as we should very
 often, do we? This mirror ought to be
 held up eftener-it would do no harm
 if we looked in it every day; Inere re
 Is no reason why man should join in
 vice with more glee than he will join
 in prayer but he seems willing to-
 There is no doubt money is made to
 spend; but one endorses the sentl-
 Inent that it is made to throw away.
 The person who knows how to spend money has acquired skill. To be W1tn
 out money is to be on the verge of bankruptcy and the wise man keeps as far as possible from that. which means that we should keep our wants well within our income It does not require judgment or skill to spend money faster than one can earn it. an idiot can do that. 4 dollar in ones s pocket looks better than an l 0 U in the paymaster's till. He who plays with debt invites poverty Two dol lars saved looks better than so spendthrifts. There is only one way to be forehanded, and the proyident find the way No others can.
 l suppose that hard work is a bless ing since it toughens up the muscles and increases strength and sustains gGod digestive organs and creates an enjoyable appetite which doesn't have to be catered to with delicacies but those who preach this doctrine are not usually the ones who practice it. Ne cessity appears to be the only thing that will keep man at hard Work If it is healthy and strength developing, for most men prefer advocating it at so much per lecture. When we have hard work to do we hire the other fel- low to do it if we can get the Where withal to hire him: not because we love him less, perhaps, but because we love ourselves more. We like the bless ings we do not have to work for.
 You may not be aware that we all have a private cemetery. We have; and this is where we bury our good intentions and some of us bury one every day. It is strange people are not conscious when they cruelty the spirit. Good doesn't have more than half chance in the world. When the heart prompts us to good deeds how we defer them. and they often die a lingering death-are really starved out. You do not see it? No one sees a thing they insist upon standing back to. We put off action along lines of mercy fo1I hi h hrr0 vxrH are thrice prompted to it. When our good intentions are put beside those we put into force there IS no doubt they will tower like Bunker Hill mon well, and he is meaner than he thinks do not know any exceptions to the rule, do you? Why do men turn deaf ear to the promptings of the heart?
 Life is punctuated with too much petty tyranny. For some reason men like to lord it over their brethren. Sometimes they do IL upon the pre- text that they must be kept from making mistakes, and sometimes be- cause of an ill-founded conviction that might makes right. It is not infre- quently that tyranny is expressed in law, and this has been regarded as who said: Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from You may have noticed this is true of the employer and employed the boss and the workman-in the of life. Men who feel others should look well to themselves to see if they are capable of seif-con- trol. for they usually are not The spirit of tyranny is always a mark of weakness and it has been well said that rebellion against tyrants is obe- dience to Goal" The founda tion of all tyranny is self -conceft, and petty tyr amy is worthy of a poltroon but not of a man.
 Of course, we all recognize that it is q good heart that feels for the heathen, but it is surprising how far away they think the heathen be. Speak of heather and away runs thought to China, India, Africa, or the far-off isles of the sea. because we have the habit of looking away from home for unilIuminated minds. We do not per init ourselves to think of heather right at home-right in our midst. The heathen of eastern Connecticut need and need it as much as the heathen in central Africa You may not know anyone who has no more Idea of the sacred rights of others, the of home or parental duty oward their children than Fiji island CTS. but we have them. Being too far sighted is rather sin than a virtue. We should cultivate the habl Of rec ognizing the heather near by They are the heather who compromise us.
 One of the most blessed promises made to his followers by the Saviour when he Was aware that the time ha ,ome for him to depart was T will end the Comforter and there is no loubt this promise has been fulfilled millions of times, and is fulfilled every lay among those who are conscious If the presence. love and power of 5od; and yet how many professed Christians there are who have failed o be thus blessed because they did lot recognize the Comforter when he anne Wfren people are in trouble, af- fiction or sorrow, and the spirit tells hem God can harn1onize all discords an bring joy to every human soul n fact, speaks peace to them. they re either unconscious of His presence, owe or power, or else are like those O whom the Saviour said: "Oh ye of i title faith The Comforter comes, 1 ut he is powerless because of unbe- l ief Those who are abIe to recognize l he Divine Presence know the truth i nd the truth makes them free.
 1t may be well to remember that ] rashness is the faithful and unhappy i