Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-03
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The more abundant life can never be made unattractive by entertaining it as a treasure of our faith although it may be a product of our action now. What is a life more abeunding? Tae broader our life is made. the more comprehensive it becomes through un- selfish love and effective knowledge and the more abundant it must be since there is in it all that sustains, pIeases and satisfies the spirit. The abounding life consists in being good, which is much more meritorious than just feeling good. Goodness and laz:- ness do not, work we'll together in the same harness. Can you imagine God as ever dawdling? I am glad my view of religion does not picture heaven as the paradise of loafers or 1oadpg and a halo as constituting the future life of a saint. Everything God has made
 except man seems to go all the time
 and go right. He made man free he has not got to wait for the more abundant life. am inclined to think if it were not for the myths of the past mans imag- ination would not be worth ten cents. It is true the mythology of this age truly represents the real faith of a by
 gone age. It is questionable whether,
 if men had not believed the spirits of
 the departed souls possessed the crea- lures in the insect world we should
 ever have had as creations of mind
 fairies and gnomes and brownies.
 Would writers ever have thought of
 the rainbow bridge to heaven had
 not the Norsemen seen in the rainbow
 the bridge that led from the northland to Valhallah, the destination of all valiant spirits. Expression hes been . hpo 1Jfi EfQr9 adorned nd
 in a way been blessed by the pictures or beliefs of ignorance and supersti- ton. Man not only learns from his own experience but by the mistakes as we'll as successes of others. The myths of the past held as truths were a comfort. to man and many of them hold the power of inspiration today.
 It is of less importane how long a man ought to live than how man should conduct himself to lift the av- craze death rate above 40 years. It is a mans years being three score and ten. The limit of a mans years is what he makes 1t by an observance of the laws of health. It is more proba- ble the ignorant die young than that l the good do. Many wicked man lasts in life not because he was en- dowed with more physical strength but because he is blessed with more sense with respect to life than the other 1 fellow. Of all the creatures God has l created man stands in the first class ! for self-abuse; and those who cannot use themselves well do not know how to use others we'll hence the great number of two-legged brutes walking l the earth. Mans bad habits sweep | him off the face of the earth like a
 plague. If Biblical history is true, man
 has lived 300 years, and if profane his- tory is true he has lived 500 years
 The death of the majority at 40 shows how man wastes life. The primary cause of war is, jeal- ousy and fear. or conditions which are
 abnormal. Those who try to fix the responsibility of the present European war upon single nation, find it diff
 hcult to support their position. There are so many irritating incidents pre-
 cedinS every war of importance that the aSgravating events reach back 8 half century or more. When the na. tons embrace the Gospel of Fair Play instead of depending upon diplomacy and adopt the Bible Golden Rule and do as they would be done by 1T
 place of the Commercial Golden Rule:
 Do him quick, or he'll do you" they will be on the way to an era. of per. manent peace. Diplomacy is duH-eyeG to every interest excepting nationa
 self-interest. The efficiency Of a dip Fomat rests upon his ability to befos agreements with yerbiage. There i.
 too often a letter, $ curve in all hi.
 verbal destinations. The trickery- con.
 stantly going on between Christian governments gives the devil constan delight. Lack of honesty and lack O. confidence beget wars and all the hor'
 TOTS which accompany them.
 A near philosopher says: Tt take, 2 iva1n %4
 in the wrong when he is!'' It take
 a bold man to tell the other fellow h,
 is in the wrong when he thinks he i
 in the right. One of our birthright. , seems to be keen eyes for the fault
 of others and no eyes for our own. N,
 man need lend the color of speech t, his faults since they may be confessed
 and reformed by the dignity of action
 There is too much reformation preach
 ed as sort of mercenary habit. I
 is not rare to hear men of bad habit featuring men of better habits to re form. Half the world has lost sigh l. of the fact that in reforming our
 selves we are teaching our neighbo how to reform. The lesson of ex
 ample is the most impressive lessor , yet discovered. It is easier to poin the way than to walk it-it is easie
 to hide our faults than, it is to cor
 rect them. Words are not necessar to admit one's error, for it is ad nitted the moment he begins to. d 2 right.
 lf some men could work as hard a they can drink they would not becom drunkards. It is a pity they do nc get onto themselves and change tn