Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-10
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
The Fine Art of Making Lemonade.

A frivolous verse from the funny
column hints at an eminenly useful
philosophy. 1t is commended to all
to whom life brings not just the most
desired gifts.
Turn defeat into victory
Don't let your courage fade,
And il you get a lemon"
Just make the lemon-aid.
Neither sages nor poets can bestow
more valuable advice. To be able to
transform yellow and sour facts OF
experience into wholesome elements
of comfort and power is moral victory
of high degree.
Life for aXerags people would Be a
hampering and embarrassing restric-
tons. With the field apparently
clear and a fair goal in sight obsta-
cles spring up overnight to thwart
our plans Good fortune arrives with
misfortune tagging at it's heels in a
way to spoil everything. The fly in
the apothecary's ointment makes the
whole mass unavOry.
Moreover, we often select the
lemons" ourselves. How our human
judgment goes away! How many a
game proves not worth the candle!
The object of strenuous pursuit ap-
pears as a tawdry thing on possession
and a closer view. Many a man has
built a house or bought mining stock
or secured a coveted job only to find
that what glittered like gold was
really brass when he got it to the
| assay office. Instead of gaining wings
to fly with he has gathered weights
to carry.
Much depends on the cast of mind
! with which we survey misfortunes.
Under no other circumstances are
hope and courage and a certain
| buoyant ingenuity so requisite. Cry
| ing gets one nothing but a read nose
/ But half the battle of life is fought
/ when determination is aroused to
| make even the sourest lemon" aid.
The knock that has not d potential
| boost concealed behind its hard
! khuckles has hardly yet been invent
! ed. You would expect that to be true
! in a world organized as we believe
| this one is not on the principle OF
/ hate or of chance, but of love. A high
authority has said, All things work
! together for good to them that love
! God 1t remains for the average
t man actually to prove the apostolic
word by recognizing the good In
whatsoever dismal situation he may
| confront Nor is the search such q
| hopeless one as the pessimists would
! have us believe. A month in bed with
| a broken leg may start one on q
/ course of reading that lends touch
of culture to his whole later life. A
! failure in business may reveal a mans
points of strength as well as of weak
ness and set him on the highroad tC
| success.
! Old Thomas Fuller, relatinu hi.
experiences in Enelands civil war
! says quainty: Il have observed thai
towns which have been casually
! burned have been built again more
beautiful than before mud walls
afterward made of stone; and roofs
formerly but matched, afterwarc
J advanced to be tiled" And he adds
the pious hope concerning his owl
fiery trial that my renewed soul
which grows out of the ashes of the
olden man, be a more firm fabric ant
stronger structure"
7 sometimes think that never blow:
SO red
The rose, as where some buried
Caesar bled.
The persian poets surmise ha.
! become almost an exiom of expert
| ence. The sacrifices disappointment
and hardships of life have yielded the
! sweetest flowers of song and tn,
I richest fruits of achievement-bu
only in courageous lives. For only
brave spirits can meet the challeng,
Of difficulty without finching.
THE PARSON.