Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l = A great many men do not know when they have a good thing. 1t Is only those who have faced the worst can realize the joy of having the best. Everything good seems better some how with a dark background. It Is the extremes in life which create the most intense emotions. A man who Is living the full life knows the ups and down, and his joy is made the greater because he struck hands somewhere with despair Life without a pain or 8 failure is a tame affair. 1t Is a mans work to turn failure to success. but easy sleddfng is a pleasant pasttme for a boy. You may have noticed those who start too high up in life slide to the bottom: but those who be- gin at the bottom climb to the top whether the climbing is good or not. the descent to death. Those who are born to the heaven of luxuary and ease enjoy the sliding in hfe-they do not know where they are going, but they know they are on the way. For tunate is he who has to get his bear ings.
 The man who tells you he only wants justice, wants justice as he in- terprets it, not as a just judge would. If there is a single thing conscious man doesn't want 1t is justice. He is noted for always hoping and praying for something else. When criminal made a break and in a spasm Of grief blinded with tears. told his custodian. "An we want is justice" his pal nudg- ed him and commanded him to shut up, saying: Justice is just what we don't want" If, as the maxim goes, justice delayed is justice denied" the denial is very general Aristotle defined justice as giving to every man his own," and in our day man Is said to
 -S~~kt, s>4 what he makes. Longfellow assures us Man is unjust. but God is just, so in the end justice triumphs." To be eff fective it should triumph at the be- ginning. A great many men who think they are looking for justice are simply looking for trouble. Our courts Of justice do as well as they can, but not as well as they might If all witnesses were truthful.
 Those who study the birds and flow CTS and insects and rocks establish a relation to nature which Is agreeable and which seems to make them akin to all living things. Every naturalist comes to sense the companionshfp or nature, and wherever he may wander alone he is never lonely. It has been said: "To know nature and man Is the sum of earthly knowledge" But 1t seems to me to be near the total of divine knowledge. It really profits a person to sit down occasionally for the express purpose of becoming better ac- quainted with himself. The natural ist knows that life just huns. There are no dull spots on earth for him. An empty mind, wandering eye and iso- lation can create a loneliness which invites despair. Activity and knowl- edge not only make man sense his power, but his relation to all things mundane and celestial; it opens his eyes to the wonders of the earth and the heavens, and may make him con- scious of the brotherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
 A clergyman once assured me that man was the only creature God had made to laugh, and he deemed this a sign of mans superiority over all oth- CT creatures. I called his attention to the laughing hyena, but it made as lit tie impression upon him as his re- marks made upon me. Laughter is the outward sign of inward humor; and since that day it has been con- cluded that dogs and horses laugh and
 men have proven it by photographs. shouldn't wonder if it was a spirit of humor that makes the kitten chase its tail round and round, which incident ally gives her a kind of exercise she needs. Humor is not purposeless, for if it were we should never have had the maxim Laugh and grow fat" Laughter has been defined as the key to the whole man, and you have doubt less known it to unlock the tear-ducts have seen people laugh till they cried. Laughter 1t taken for a sign of cheerfulness, but it does not always indicate a contented mind. The person who laughs too much is a subject of pity. The distinctive value of laughter is hardly worth talking about.
 How the world has been preached at for its sins and belabored because of its ignorance when it was suffering for good examples What man needs is to show the principles of truth pos he possesses them. You will have to show me-" Is the slogan of Missouri; but before Missouri was on the map men were anxious and waiting to be shown. What the world needs Is less preaching in all directions and more demonstrating. You do not have to coax g. person to seek anything after he has been shown it is worth having, that it is something he needs that it is something which will advance his in terests, that it is something which will promote his comfort Smart business concerns send out demonstrators, and they get the trade. Show mel" is the challenge of men of all nations to those who claim to be leaders and to have their material or spiritual welfare at nedIl. Man diWayS has been told too many things that were not SO: hence his lack of faith and zeal for proof.
 It was Bailey who wrote of the sum- set, "The deathbed of the day, how beautful;" Since there is nothing very beautiful about a deathbed, the meta phor hardly seems worth preserving. The sunset comes nearer being the herald of the approach of night, or the symbol that so long as God reigns
 beauty will abide. Perhaps nature opens the work-a-day with a flood of crimson light and closes it with a dag zllng gleam of color to teach us nor tals to look up and to become con- seious of our debt to the Supreme Architect of the universe. It is man who bids us concern ourselves about deathbeds-God incites us to interest ourselves in life that is and the life that is to come. Maybe he sets the flowers in the fields and the stars in the heavens, makes the earth fruitful and the morning and evening aslow With splendor to teach us by His ser vice that only a life of service to God and man will bring the joy and peace Wh1cF abides. A beautiful sunset looks llke heavenly benediction.
 Do not think because woman wa. constructed from the rib of Adam that she amounts to less than the e00th part or man. If this has to be ad- mftted, we men would suffer by com parison, for Eve was too Overpowerine TOT Adam. Women are licensed today