Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-20
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It hes been said that some bil col
 lectors are harder to shake than guilty conscience; and every bustness man knows every man who needs De chased up by collector has no con- scienee--is harder to impress than .
 marble statue. I have never known what to make of the man who invites cheating his neight6r. et is the preva- Ience of dishonesty which gives cur rkney to the modern golden rule: ~Do him quick, or he'll do you! There must be g hundred delinquents to be chased to one collector. and the per sistence of the collector Is the measure of his success The money Norwich merchants have lost in the past quar- ter of century to men who will not 1 pay would endow the United Workers and assure their good work for all time. or perpetually meet the expenses of the police department. Their name is Legion-they are the thorn In the crown of the business man-the riders in the omnibus of thrift with free tickets.
 There are times when delay may be a crime, and other times when It may be a virtue. We should not delay any action for the accomplishment Of good, we should delay every impulse to do that which is insane or wicked. There is no disappointment like being little too late-no crime worse than the wrecking of a nation by men who were too slow. Tomorrow Is a great human stumbling block. It was Shakespeare
 who penned the exclamation: Tomor- row, It is a period nowhere to be 1 found in all the hoary registers of time. except perchance in the fools caien- dar" 1t is in matters of the heart more than in matters of passion that man delays. Most every man when | his conscience commands him to re- | form inaudibly replies: Tomorrow. I There is never any delay in trying to get something for nothing: but We all have to pay the price of experience | and there is no postponement We | should always be on the lookout for the things we can delay and the things we cannot.
 "Attention!" This is a common mili- tary command of merit. It is equiva- lent to saying Concentratel Get ready for businessi' It Is a good command for ones self-to become conscious the l time has come to shut the door against | all things else. and to pay strict atten- I ton to whatever is in hand. Sir Isaac | Newton wrote: If l have made any | improvement in the sciences. it is ow- | ing more to patient attention than to 1 anything beside" It was Attention! | that helped Newton to see in the apple '" itation. It is attention that makes ev- l cry inventor distinguished in his work
 and it is attention which makes all the differences we note in the minds oi 1 men, Attention will aid you to get the best. there is in books, also to get tho | best there is in life out of it. The
 world does not pay attention. for if il did it would not have waited so Ions for a Harvey to discover the circula- | ton of the blood. Watts as the user O | ufa for fnr a Curia tn dis.
 cover radium or for an Edison tt through the mastery of vibrations tt
 have invented the photograph. Atten'
 ton, there. Eyes right"
 However much we may desire tt honor our benefactors it is not like!
 we shall do so with complete success
 The givers of wealth for the common
 good are only one class of benefactors
 What are we to do for those who giv'
 the best of themselves for the ad
 vancement of their eellowmen. and tn
 results of whose work no man cal
 measure? Whoever relieves distres l is ,benefactor: whoever Is a goo' l example in any community Is a ben
 efactor. The good citizen who pro
 notes every good law and oppose every freedom restraining and burden , est herald of the truth is benefactol } Charles Lamb wrote: The greates pleasure I know is to do a good actiol by stealth; and to have it found ou , by accident; and he was not alone for every city and town has benefac tors of this sort. Oh, but these ar
 not public benefactors, you say. Wha 1 about the man who Steaithily drops } little leaven among his fellowme 1 which leavens the whole mass? Tn benefactor burrows as we'll as blaze and it is not easy to find him out.
 | |
 Man says: "Ignorance of the law
 no defense" And you and have en
 dorsed this sentiment. Everybody doe. } of course. 1t Is up to every man l know. and if he doesn't know he ca , just take all that is coming to hin
 I discovered at last that there is nor
 meanness than justice in this senti . ment. It has nothing upon which rest except the arrogance of maI None of us are ignorant of the mos } shocking tragedy the world ever kne'
 and we should not be of the alvin
 prayer offered by the Crueified On 2 on that occasion on Calvary: "Fathe f 1 forgive them. for they know not whs they do." If the Christ thought ie norance should be forgiven, how ca
 we be right in our conclusion it shoul
 not be? Man is not always to blam l for his ignorance, and this fact seem t to have had divine recognition. It man who creates the abject condition
 l Of the race, not GOd- l guess W
 shall have to forgive ignorance as W F wish to be forgiven.
 f How we arc astonished by th
 mighty works Of man. and how 'littl
 we are moved by the mightier cres :. tions of God. All the men who wel employed in creating the seven wor 5 ders of the world could not with the Q united talents make a daisy seed. IT
 ] Saviour called attention to the mus
 tard seed which grew to a tree : the branches of which birds bull e their nests. It took man untold agt n to learn to fly, but the little biI
 from the nest learns to fly in a da
 and is given the ability to fly farth,
 than pan is likely to for an age come. Our schools create experts n anatomy who do wonders. nature prt n duces insects with knowledge g anatomy and an expertness which pu
 man to shame. The combined wisdo
 of man will never be able to produ, i. Seed: and the seed can do nothir a without it's trinity--the sun, the so the rains. The life of some seeds s l nIvo