Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

Did you ever seriously review 8 | days behavior-analyze it to see or It | was all chargeable direct to you or | to someone else. There is the ego and | the non-ego which play in all of the l affairs of men. We do things from l principle, or from partiality, preJudlce l or selfish motives. We combine 10 | accomplish certain ends. and we do | not sit down to see whether we are | or being moved. We do not | figure out by proportion the amount | of will We exercise compared to the | will we submit to. We may put our l thumbs in our VeSt-holeS and contem- plate our I-am-neSs, but how many l hours in the day does it cover? If | you knew do you think you would i consider yourself & masterpiece Few | men know how much of themselves l they put into each day. They might | be surprised if they knew how often | they moved without principle and be- cause of another. It is not time mis- spent to sit down and take account of l yourself.
 When it comes to matter of per sonal rights we in mind are likely to make most errors. Some people think it Is right for them to cherish thoughts which if acted upon would get them into jail. This is no persons right, only the mistake of those who so think. Every thought cherished in the
  degrades it: and what right have you or l to do that which injures us Man is handicapped by every kind of 8 thought which tends to evil or even to discouragement Man was not diviney created to be disCOur- aged, but to have faith in his own power as a child of God. The battle Of life is not to the weak and the falter- ing but to the strong. We have no right to be blind to the power of
 Isr@yI 4.Nl good government and evil thoughts to war or anarchy. What is brooded in the mind of one generation gives birth to the action of the next generation.
 Do you know there have been 1900 women imprisoned in England-1,6 600 for indulging in free speech and 200 for violence. Tn view of these facts, where is the greatest menace to liberty and persecution being shown? Because one-ninth of the suffrag getteS thrown into prison have been guilty of crime does not make them all criminalsi Should the same number of men of this country be denied free speech by the government, we should have a worse showing to make than that. Human judgment usually rests too much on ignorance of facts, when it should be based on knowledge There are some laws which are not worthy of being respected or obeyed, Don't be afraid This isn't anarchismt If there hadn't been such laws there would never have been any Magma Charta or any United States of Amer ica. George Washington was never half as black as he was painted
 neither are the suffragettes. Every good-serVice soul is slandered.
 take exception to politeness if most people do labor under the conviction that it is something which should not be objected to. There is the brand which is always true to the mark, and the brand which is used for evasive purposes. I like the person who thanks me for a favor or a service; but l dis like the person who coldly thanks Goodheart for things not. acceptable and never calls for them. Any device that makes a sneak of pOliteneSS to avoid candor corrupts good manners The spirit which prompts to service is always worthy appreciation if the ser vice is not required. A person too eX- quiSitely polite is a little more of q boor than the person who isn't quite polite enough. POliteness as heart eX- pression is fine enough. but as a cold formality it is about as much of a hailstorm as a sensitive soul can en- due
 We expect too much of the under dog--he of the scant side of life. in- stead of the abundant The world is indifferent to all such, and the indif- ference of mankind and womankind has more to do with freezing the milk of human kindness and making life cheerleSS than most of us imagine. It makes a difference whether the world looks upon you as being extraordinary or just ordinary. The thermometer of it's regard marks warm or cold in re lation to your place be it menial or re fined. It makes Q difference whether you hold a job or a position. Robert Louis Stevenson. after having travelled in many lands having been a respect able citizen at home and fallen to the place of a curious looking foreigner abroad said he would not give two pence for the morality any. man had left after five years of buffeting against the upper class. The demoralizatiOn of the under dogs is largely due to the unchristian conduct of those above them. The people of class who conde- sCend to help the less fortunate won der they are so dull and unresponsive.
 The less imagination we have the less we have to enjoy in life; and the more we have the more apparent are our ecCentricities. and in the greater peril are we of the mental extrava- EanCes which are treated as insanity. There is, however. 3. safe, winding, i'm aginatiVe way in which the mind finds pleasure and the soul repose It was
 
 of ecstacv wrote; T feel as if I could hear q pin drop twenty years in the f'uturet" And we should call her on the verge: but when two little girls sat gossining and one said: When l am a woman I'm going to be teacher and the other said: T shall be a mother. and have four children" And the first snapped out: Then when they come to my school I'm going to whip them! whip them whip them," And the sec Ond little girl burst into tears and shouted: oh you wicked thing, What have my poor children done to you that ! you should beat them ?'' We here have imagination breeding misery. I he imagining of evil brings sorrow and the imagining of the good and the beautiful brings joy.
 When # ccnes to retrospection man has not been trained to think it it nee essary. The popular thoughts about self-revieW among men is that ones : enemies may discover and expose all : the faults il is necessary to know They do not seem to realize that open l errors and surface faults are all the 1 enemy is ever able to expose The 1 faults which handicap us the most are | deep seated, are sunk in the wells ot l our being and may only be searched ] out. hauled out ana ex punged by our l selves. Know myself" Is grea1 l commandment, if 1t did come down tl 1 us from heathendom. Since God has ! never withdrawn Himself from men i Or been specially partial to any race i the truth from such source cannot he ! considered as at all out Of order Ii
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