Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-09
THE MAN WKO TALKS

I do not like the man or the woman who in their wrath abuse dumb ami nais or children. Striking blows in spite do more sometimes than 10 tenn porarily pain the victim. The mother who savageiy boxes her childs ears may make it deaf for life. just as by calling child caught in an untruth "a lying little villain" may do the child more harm than blow couid; The first thing to grapDle with 2 WIlt for reform is the temper. Instead or abusing children and dumb beasts Just make an end of the spirit Of revenge and retaliation and come into the
 realm of calrnness and dignity ana get a taste of peace. There Is nothing nat urai about these explosions of temper, for they indicate one Is more of 8 say age than a man. There is no denying that temper ungOverned governs tne
 whole person It has been truly esio. If religion hes done nothing Tor your
 temper 1t has done nothing Tor your
 soul" Doing things to be sorry for
 IS a fools occupation and II IS not easy
 answering for them
 There is nothing more amazing to
 the naturalists in the Seven Wonoefs
 of the World than in the seven times
 seven wonders of the universe he may
 discoyer in the course of a life or
 study. The pyramids of Egypt or the
 Colossus of Rhodes were marvellous
 works of man; but the great mother
 of pearl butterfly and the great green
 and gold beetle are only two or sae
 are ages older than either of these an
 cient creations The little winged
 creatures have soundless, and so Tar as
 man can observe scentless means or
 communication for miles,, even
 through walls of masonry which make
 wireless telegraphy look like simple
 will la00T TOT
 hours to make soup, the offspring or
 the bIue-bottle fly will turn meat
 into soup in second by the appnca-
 ton of it's meat dissoiving saliver. The
 history of a fly has defied the sharpest
 scrutiny of man for quarter or
 century to complete it. The trans
 mutation of a flower in the heid mas
 more in it for man than the Sphlnx, 1T
 it could tell it's story.
 have a doubt whether am living
 in a Christianized world or not: ana that may seem strange to you. l was
 born with my eyes open and my mind active and have tried to keep It so. There is England spending in this year of our Lord 1914 s257, 750, ,0e0 on her navy, and not above Sa0,o0e,oe on education; and other civilized nations are following suit. Governments are spending five times as much for the perpetuation of brutal force as they are for the enlightenment of their people. Retaliation burdens us six times as much as salvation. We live in antict- patton of hate instead of dwelling in the confidence of Love. The love we preach calls for no such expenditure; 1; but the spirit of retaliation we nourtsh calls for this great amount of treas ure, to say nothing of the sacrifice and blood that goes with it. The fact we have to do these things shows the sav- age is still holding down the super man.
 The fact the world employs many times more women for teaching enn- dren than 1t does men shows 1t thinks this is woman's work. The assign ments the world makes to it in no way decreases it's importance. It is a noble work from any point of view, and mo- ble work is usually underpaid. The preachers, the teachers and the writ CTS of country are not the ones who get rich. It is the sharp traders, the | foxy spectators, the msnipulators of watered' stock who may realize hun dreds of thousands as the result of 9 | little scheming and a large opportuni- i ty; and few days or hours of stren I uous work. If there was nothing worth l more than large accumulations oi material wealth the ranks of the l teachers could not be kept filled; but l Horace Bushnell was right when he 1 declared the most valuable property I Is the property right in souls" Educa. 1 tion is called the cheap defense of na- l tions, because it is not the work ol 1 money The game of mon 1 ey-getting is not the way to purity o1 i soul or a keen sense of the infinite. 1 The person who cannot see enougf