Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-18
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
A DAY OF LIFE.

 set to study your expenditure of your time resources. gentle reader, he would probably tell you that you were vast ing a large number of individual days. That, at least, is what he would tell most of us. We are carelesSly letting days go by unimproved that seem, for one reason or another, not quite suited to our purpose.
 Because we awoke with a headache or because it looks like a storm, or is unusually hot or cold or because any one of half hundred other conditions prevail, we allow the sun to make it's mighty journey over our heads from east to west without undertaking aught of work or even of helpful play. Not being quite in the mood for en- done Under any honest estimate che day must be set down as a blank.
 It is serious matter to waste in- dividual days because one is thus vast ing life itself The longest human life is only a succession of one day after another The truth is trite one and yet worthy of being completely real ized. You value life?" said the sen tentious egoiSt, Benjamin Franklin. Then do not squander time, for time is the stuff of life" It is indeed; and days are the stuff of time and sho1:d not therefore be wasted.
 There are many frightful inequali- ties in this life of ours, but at one point, namely in the distribution of time, all the sons of men are exactly on a level. The year holds just 365 days for us all, rich or poor. learned or ignorant, fortunate or unfortunate. Success lies in making the most of each day as 1t passes.
 One should study the art of turning unprofitable and outcast days into re- warding and happy ones. The total of a ho urably increased by converting ele- ments of waste into items of profit, as skilful manufacturer does in his bus iness. Amazing results may be got ten out of a twelve hours that seem, on a careless view, fit only to be eu- dured or idled away. The really bad" days in life are very few if one does not yield too easily to laziness A day on which 1t is hotter than Sahara, or raining in torrents. or plumb full of interruptions, may have its great uses if we are alert to see them. And at 1 its end we can say, with the good blacksmith, Something attempted, something done. hath earned night's repose."
 To take a single day and to make it ideal is an important and a pos sible task for everyone The sum of all the days is beyond our reach. But the individual day is well within our grasp. We can make that sample of what we WOulQ llk6 our WUOlc llI6 IO be- The space between sunrise and sunset is not long, but 1t Is long enough to think thoughts and do deeds | that bear the color of eternity. | It is idle to imagine that sometime /: we are going to live grandly if we never actually make a beginning of such life.
 l We shall do so much in the years to | come
 But what have we done today? We shall give our gold in a princely sum;
 But what did we give today? We shall lift the heart and dry the | tear,
 We shall plant a hope in the face of fear,
 We shall speak the words of love and cheer
 But what did we speak today7 A day Is such a wonderful thing, SC stored with possibilities of poetry, oi l history, of high achievement that it is no less than crime to despise the very 1 least one in the calendar The wise man rises to the ligf of each morn | ing as to new sublime opportunity Make the most of the passing day then Do all the good you can. Gain al the happiness yeu can, There will be no fairer opportunity. For Behold now is the acceptable time. behold new is the day of salvation"
 EHA LARSON.