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

terdaysit is the employment of our
 yesterdays which form the basis for our expectations in the future. To-
 morrow is something we find to be ever use in moments. What is the present?
 A friend placed the point of @ pencil and made a mark the sixteenth of an inch in length and said the mark is the past. hence the present is just the point which Is revealing the line con- stantly. The present. is all the time
 creating the past, and 1t is out of the experiences of the past we gather all our hopes and fears. Life is a series of surprises because we do not realize what is to be the result upon us of the moments we fill The present is
 always moving point of time weaving
 the now into the past.
 Most of the annoyances of life are caused by little things, and half the
 perplexities of life are overcome by
 little things. It is the little things
 are not promptly checked. The Mother
 of Mischief is no bigger than midge's
 wing. Do not expect too much of
 friend, or give too much thought to an
 enemy. No hair is so fine it does not
 cast a shadow, no insect is so small 1t
 cannot do a vast amount of damage. no
 thought too insignificant to be guard
 ed. The spirit of revenge which at
 last breeds war and destroys a. nation
 is little thing to begin with, and
 like the little habit which makes us
 it's slave, it has to be nursed to over power us. Mans chance of becoming
 ennobled rests upon little attentions to
 divine precepts, and through these
 little persistent efforts he becomes rec
 ognized as a son of God. The way to
 every great achievement is made step
 by step. The little things of life make
 a firm foundation for the greater. No
 thing should be despised which pro-
 notes great results.
 Never take life SO seriously that you cannot perceive the hunor of a great deal of it. Funny incidents and com binatfons are just as natural as breath ing. It is a sign of a healthy mind and a broad mentality to see things to laugh at, not because they are ridic- ulous, but because they are funny. The laugh which pours out from a joyous heart is good music. People who think it is a sin to laugh have taken to the cellar of life to escape the best part of the sunshine. Life without laughter is like night without moonbeams or | twinkling stars. The person who can not see anything to laugh at has ceased to be normal. Laughter is sign of a light heart and @ light heart can do humanity or the Lord better service than heavy heart. A face never light ed by 8 smile is nightmare in any house.
 A dream many people indulge in is ] that some time, somewhere, they are going to wear halo and play a harp. and generally these very people are suilty of taking life too easy to win l a prize by attending a modern house. lot sale. Someone has said the man who wins crown and a harp is the one who lives up to his wife's expecta- = tlons, and this seems to be an assl,r- ance that there may be crowns and
 Es. Earps enougn to go round. and quite
 likely few to spare. Vanity has a way or putting vim to sleep-a way of
 dreaming on sweetened froth when it | were better to take pill and wake up.
 Most of the people who dream of a
 narp ana crown Elysiunn would not know now to play the harp or wear the crown should their dream come true, It Is better to be an ornament arnonp men than to wear ornaments among them. You may have noticed the man who does most for his fellowman is moi the one who wears the most medals. It is only the man who needs frien5s Wno realizes how rare true friends are | The man who doesn't need then, can count them by the score-the world | appears to be full Of friends to him. l ne doesnt seem to know false friend ship f1atters while true Friendship 1 serves. A mans necessities do moi l ofaW others to him, but his l,f,1cl of = | ten does. The number and quality of
 true friends one has depends upon the
 cnaracter Of the fight he is making In
 the battle of life. The life which corn-
 mands admiration-the misfortune l which summons pity-attracts true
 trlenos. Keep so the world will won- | der why you complain so little in ! stead of SC the world will criticise you l because you complain so much. There
 IS a near side and an off side to life
 and those who tactfully kee;: on the
 near side are classed as deservinF. and | those who slip to the off side as moi being so. If you need friends do moi
 advertise for them. | The temperature at aa dearse. on the morning Of September 29tll was a fneW record for New England wor! l came rom Boston that there WAS nc
 record Of 50 cold g. morning since rec osos nave been kept. Toe on the water
 was the morning discovered a sround
 room in the yard making a breakfast
 ot the snnnoWer seeds the goidf1nches
 nave been dropping for the pas,
 month. This was the firss chewinl
 seen in the garden in seventeen vssrc
 and why he extended his ranye tr
 new precincts or how he knew there
 vas plenty of food in the dahiia patch
 l 0o not know. The little eokddnches
 Wno board with us half the year may
 nave informed him. Everything in fhs garden was black as ink but the stelIs
 sunnowers which seem for haxdlnes,
 to vie with the hardy chrysarthe,nums which are just in bud and which veil lend a charm to the borders tllf No. vember days come and tho enowaake, ! smother them.
 tt was Vfoeer Huse who said: ~r,
 civihze man you should begin wifi his grandmother" I wonder If if i, because of short-sishtedness, of ner. : l !ecting this precaution, that ciyi3ira s ton seems to be base thing thi.;, T reneered today. From suprenae aei. hshness we witness a great ,Infryhta, I or men, eh e breaking up of sovernmsnfs \ tthe destruction Of wealth and the ;n. crease of poverty and sufferinr. TN, vandalism. murder and fnhurnan snt, -k of professed Christians in Eurone tn
 Eday are putting the atrocities of th,
 heather in a different light whersi, .t do men who lend themselves to ven 7 lgeance differ whatever they profesr : No nation in Europe boldly sss1r1 2. e responsibility for the war, for ii \ , so horrible they all shrink from it-
 Ethev all charra fha