Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-07
THE MAN WHO TALK 5

and no one ventures to aeiy t. ro know two-thirds of the public speak 1 CTS would do better service if they had indellibly written on their hearts 1 Make it shorti Draw 1t mildi IL IS adding verbiaSe to truth that makes 1t weak or diluttng 1t with concelteo expression. The more 8 real truth IS l padded and bolstered up. the harder I 1t is to find it. Truth doesn't need any literary polishing. The Golden Rule has been made the subject or many sermon. but no sermon ever, added weight to it. It stands at th? l close of 2,000 years as the best dennl- I ton of religion and the best deflnltion l of love- and it makes clear that the two | blend perfectly-are inseparable. There are a thousand other definitions of re- | ligion, but not one acceptable as sup I stitute for this. All the scholarship l of the ages has not produced anything clearer or more forceful. The good | listener is made by the entertaininS 1 talker-the man who knows when he 1 has talked long enough.
 | have thought the statement "op- portunity knocks at no mans door but l once" was not true l think it is neces. sary to revise this opinion, because 1t may be true; but it is a mans priv I ilege to knock at opportunftys door l just as often as he dares venture l When opportunity knocks at your door | it is evident you are deemed to be efficient; but when you knock at the | door of opportunity you must then l prove your own efficiency. The young I man who Is advancing is all the time | making clear his mpetency to those who are calling on him to step up 1 higher. What is the way to efficiency? l It is the habit of attending strictly to 1 little oetails-the intent to do the smallest service well. One makes his way by diligence, not by watching the | clock or setting his mind too exclu I sively upon his pay envelope. The man | whose mind IS ever upon his work and l who is moved by a spirit of achieve 1 tunity like a welcome friend and is not l hampered by formalities.
 A Norwich clergyman recently asked 1 an assembly of workmen who did | their thinking for them?" This was 1 an intimation that ready made thought | is too common that the parrots of life | are not all clothed with bright plu- | mage. It is up to every man to seri- 1 ously ask himself this same question l It is not possible for any of us to do l all our own thinking, for if there is l anything in this world which is not l the worse for being secondhand 1t Is l well expressed thought; but 1t is a 1 lazy minded soul who accepts any | truth without sitting it. just as it Is 9 l lazy housewife who does not sift the | sugar to get the tiny hardwood chips 1 and bits of nailheads from 1t, for it is 1 the little obstacles the eye cannot | qnickly see or the mind cannot imme- l diateiy grip which may be the cause 1 of serious future trouble. No truth l can be ours because an able man ut l tered it-it can only be ours by our | possessing ourselves of it, and becom- ing conscious that it is true. It Is a l knowledge of the truth that makes man l free, and it Is a very superficial know 1 ledge of the truth which has to sus- 1 tain it the seeing of it on paper or just hearing it expressed. Falsities garbed i like truth are too common to be taken on trust
 was reading after a writer the 1 other day who says: Adam was a l black man and the whites are sim ply bleached blacks" I wonder how he found this outI There Is little doubt primitive man was colored, but
 1t has been generally supposed he was a red man, since he took his name from the red-earth; but there is really no positive proof of this. We know the
 dark colored races predominate on earth and that the white man is the exceution not the rule, figuratively | speaking or any other way The color line is drawn against the blacks
 sharply and the East Indians, the
 Arabs, the Turks. the Thibetans, the Chinese or the Japanese are no fla
 yorites in this land where all men are
 proclaimed to have a right to liberty. l religious freedom and happiness Why
 is this, think you? It is not because
 we are Gods children and they are
 not, for the Saviour declared all men l are brethren! It may be because we l feel superior, for we should not think
 of attributing it to our narrowness
 We write of ourselves as the superior
 race. and it will be most satisfactory 1 if Heaven approves our judgment.
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 Do not get the conceit that your i views of things in life are of great
 importance to someone else when they
 are of most importance to yourself
 What you think affects you for good
 or evil more than it does Sam Hill or
 Dave Page. It has everything to dc
 with your fears. your hates and your
 prejudices and these are at the bot 1 tom of all your errors and your devil try. good navigator of self is the 1 successful man; and let me say right
 here the successful man is not the man of most money, but the man ot
 most health; not the man of greatest
 mentality, but the man of true heart l edness That is greatest which will 1 last longest and tell most for good
 ness. Money buys things which nour-
 ish and which perish, but the things
 money cannot buy. love and truth and l devoutness. are imperishable. Think l right, live right and act right an6 l. your influence will be divine.
 1 How much trouble Is caused by tht , repeating of things said in confidence Too many do not know when the1
 have been confided in Every thinG
 confidential in this world Is not la l belled This Is a secretl What 2 ] friend says to you as friend is in. tended for your ears alone What c } 1 person may say to you in hours oi grief, or in sudden anger, or at times | of special trial is private, and is prpp. l erly held when it is deemed sacred
 It is only people who harbor a do-as. you would be -done-by spirit who be. come conscious of some condolences 1 People of sense do not distribute con.
 hdences as If they were business card:
 do not go about opening their heart. to folks as they would a snuff box I isn't pleasant to be entrusted with tn, 1 same secret by ten different persons
 on the same day. Half the secreti
 being passed around with labels or f them are not worth keeping No won. der it has been said: Blessed is tn,
 man who knows when to keep sIlen 1 and when to speak" Half the world does not know this yet.
 The men who mistake a decante for a fountain of youth often discove r their mistake too late in life. Joh1 . Barleycorn abides therein, and h.
 staggers all mankind. There are hun l dreds of thousands of men who dall, with him who will tell you they hav
 never been drunk, although they hay
 seldom been sober How the worl, D disagTees in its definitions of drunken