Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-21

when 1t is most firmly founded upon
 efficiency. Too frequently people w}io
 are going to indulge in some dissipa-
 tien say they are going to have a good time; and yeu have known people who
 went to their fun and then went to jail as a consequence of it. There IS
 nothing funny about any dissipation,
 for all dissipation in the end means ruin A good time must not only be a pleaSureable but an orderly time a time which promotes good, not evil. Good as an adyerh often gets into bad company and is seen in both question able and suspicious places. A good time is always desirable; but it is well to know what a good time is. Any time that intures our neighbors or ourselves is not good time.
 l do not feel at all fiattered by the invitation of Enquirer to consider the failure of Balaam A theological discussion l am inclined to steer clear
 of as one of the most unsatisfactory of contentious. Balaam pTofeSsedly appeared inclined to obey the Lord, but in reality he desired to win the honors which could be conferred by Balak upon him. After he had tried to bribe the Lord to endorse the cursing of the children of Israel to please Balak and had failed, he fell in with the enemies of God and was among the slain. He put himself against Truth and fell a victim. The same kind of characters are operating among men now, ana falling every day. Seeming to be and getting knocked out because one is not what he pretends to be is not an infrequent episode in life. The failure of Balaam was because of a common 1 human faut-he tried to serve God and mammon at the same time, and suffered the end which befals all such men whether they he high or low. There is little merit in the goodness based upon conceit, for what God re- quires of man is that he shall be good for something. The Balaam type is too common even to this day.
 We have no doubt every man who ! is harassed by want wishes that the wolf at the door would keep off col i Iectors and the sheriff. This is the only l wolf these haraSsers of the unfortu- | nate are not afraid of. Poverty is the 1 only burden which grows heavier the l more loved ones there are to bear it. 1 To be without money is to be cast l out of the esteem of those who do ] have it. and to feel that ones lines 1 have fallen within the very shadow of 1 pauperism The Saviour told us the 1 poor would be always with us, but we | treat them so grudingly that We make ] them wish they were not, He said 1 there was sufficient love to go round ! but those who profess to initiate Him ] do not have a great deal to spare. The
 wolf of want is mans creation, not 1 Gods
 1 Cultivate health thoughts and teach your children to cultivate health l thoughts, This is just as easy as 1t IS to harbor disease thoughts and by eX-
 ample plant them in the minds of the young. Do not get a false idea of 1 heredity and hug it to your bosom, for 1t Is a serpent-not infrequently a
 can trace in the family are the dis
 eases to drive out of yourselves. The
 same personal habits, the same atmo- sphere, the same carelesSness with
 reference to diet, will breed the same diseases. Disease is one of the most
 unnatural things-in nature it is the
 great exception not the rule. Yes, you have known whole families to die
 of consumption and to be deformed by rheumatism. So have I, because they
 repeated in life the errors of their par
 ents. l have known the last survivor
 to awake TO the folly of it all and to
 drive out the foe and live in health fOI years afteTWard. You recognize the
 price of liberty is vigilance and this
 also, is the price of d well developed body and mind which are a true guar Janty of health. Shallow breathing 1 causes consumption; careless nastica-
 ton of food dyspepsia and overeatins
 all sorts of disorders.
 imagine the people who get to ithinking they have no conceit and 1 that they can commit no sin, are lit
 tie bit farther off their center than
 most folks. We are all human, and there seems to be complete immunity i from either. These convictions verbal 1 ly expressed appear to me to represent
 the extreme of both. Conceit is fla nous for leading us to deceive our ! selves: and sin recognized is the be- ! ginning of salvation. We should be-
 ware of the one and be always alive
 to the other. Carlyle declares 'tht deadliest sin Is to be conscious of nc 1 sin" II there is one thing in life more
 apparent than another. it is that WE
 are very poor judges of ourselves. w
 all need to ask the Lord to let us set 5 ourselves as others see us.
 2 There has to be color in life just a: ! there is in nature. Some people by
 their rule of life would have all gray
 days, and some would have all gOldeT ? or yellow days. The spice of life i: ) variety, the having of a difference 1T 5 views, temperaments and occupations
 Man never huTrahs over anything dull
 for it takes something lively to stim
 ulate enthusiasm. It is not only nat.
 ural but necessary that the towI
 should occasionally be painted red: o- that a yellow sensation or g, lurid incl
 dent should excite the populace. Still
 ness begets stagnation. The fires 0 life have always shown brilliant color $ and always will, hence there is nt r sense in longing for gray days, or am
 days differing from the natural colors The victim of bad habit shoul, have no doubt that an invisible powe has the best of him. Lots of people q 3 not believe in any invisible power. al
 though the greatest power known |
 man is invisible; but the victim of - bad habit has within himself the eVi r dence of his own wealzness-of the i'm r DuIsive force of an appetite or passio
 which he can feel, but never see. l
 the long ago such 8 man was believe a to be possessed of 6. devil. and som I of them exhibit meanness enough t - | give rise to 8 suspicion they are pos
 sessed Of a dozen. In these days " l. know mans evil spirit is q child of hi
 1 own creation and indulgence and ma 6 by him be east out. He who will nc e fight a foe can never be anything nor [ than slave.
 There is nothing come easier tha
 hard luck. Do things excessively c 5 take things easily and hard Iuc $ comes-conles to stay. Hard luck call f for no great expenditure of energy. Tn A law of progress requires that a ma
 shall use his head and hands to ge
 there with both feet; but any fool ma
 tumble down and out. A large clas e of men in the industrial world neVe h get anywhere because they are afrai = they may do more work than they al R paid for; and they are generally pal
 for more work than they do. TAl
 shadow of hard luck lies upon many e them, You do not have to grappl l. withanything to gat hard tuck, but th o attainment of any good thing require VAEa7 St tE9af d