Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-14
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
GO DO IT..

k1O DO IL
 Volumes of wisdom are packed into the inelegant but forceful phrase. Of such advice thousands of mortals stand in need. We should take hold and get to work. There is a time to stop planning and purposing, to do the thing at hand.
 Many of us are inclined to dawdle, We do not name it that, but the name is immaterial. We call it consider ing the circumstances" or waiting for the occasion" But it all amounts
 to the same thing. It means that we
 temporize, twirl our thumbs, beau tifully aspire-and do nothing.
 l The occasion is rarely just right for achievement. Conditions are not
 often ideal. Much of our work must
 be done when the mood or the cir eumstances for bid. During one of
 paigns the roads were very muddy from long rains and the commissary
 wagons and artillery were having hard time of it. The General turned to an old Russian engineer attached to his staff and asked if the roads were as bad as that in Napoleon's
 Russian campaign. 'My son." replied the old man, "the roads are always bad in war" Life, for anyone who
 engages in it whole-heartedly, is like
 Warfarers afS -NA 1t may be added that of Mcclellan himself a sane and discriminating
 critic of his own time wrote. He was always waiting to have every thing just as he wanted before he would attack, and before he could get things arranged as he wanted them the enemy bounced on him and thwarted all his plans There is now
 no doubt that he allowed three dis
 tinct occasions to take Richmond to
 slip through his hands for want of
 nerve to run what he considered
 risks" No unnecessary risk should | be run. But risk is better than in
 action Conditions rarely shape up exactly as we want them.
 l Grapple with the task in hand
 then. whatever it is., Get busy on the
 work given you Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do do it with thy
 might" Counsel like this is a sort
 of gospel for the day with a. great | host of youth whose hands are in 1 their pockets and whose eyes are on 1 the clock.
 No excuse is accepted in this prac- l tical age for failure to deliver the l goods" Performance is a better rec | onmendation than promise. Only l one man in q century or so can write a graceful and convincing book like 1 that of Frederic Henri Aniel to ex- plain how aspiration may displace 1 achievement. We have not the grace nor the perSuasiveness of the profes- ] SOI- IS lSlI TOT IuOSL
 of us but to accomplish something. Begin today you students. Take up tomorrow's lessons right after supper, before you get sleepy or visit
 ors come in. Take the hardest one first and let your brain wrestle with 1t. Don't dawdle or dream. Concen- trate on the subject. Hold your mind upon it till it glows. Finish one task and then take up another. By bed time you may have finished your whole stint. Tomorrow you may face the teacher with confidence and self respect. It depends on your attitude now. Here is the work. Go do it. l You who are long past school days it is never too late to begin to culti- yate the habit of action Learn the important art of taking hold. Rescue lat least one purpose each day from the dreamy realm of intention into that of fact. Resolution finally be- comes a sort of second nature.
 | We have a thrilling book in the
 Bible named the Acts of the Apos ties" No record is made or theil resolves. A book of achievement may
 be written in each life if it accepts
 the task of each hour. Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long,
 What is there that you ought to dc today? Whatever it is, GO DO IT. + THE PARSON.