Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-31
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Too many people nout the day-of little things. They do not seem to realize that the most stupsndous things in nature had small begin-
 ming. The mountains and the oceans represent a work done grais oy grain and drop by drop. The fibAe is not the work Of one man. but the writings of over three-score and ten lzw<givers and prophets In period of over 20 centuries and in its revised form the product Of the anlist religious scholars of the past eight or ten centuries. A Fulton built the frat @ubmarine in the beginning of the 18th century which could stay under water six hours but q Lake today builds one which can travel under water for 90 discernihls from small beginning. Lincoln began life as a rail splitter, GaTfbal6f as q soap-maker, Edison es a newsboy. "Trifies make perfection % said Miohaea Angelo. ~but perfection itself iss no trifie."
 We can all have beautffnl dreams
 if we%w1li, for they are not expensive, but are comforting. Those who have lost dear ones should not cast their eyes downward toward some city of
 the dead where lie their bodies buried, bQb 4VW6xQ tOW6TQ that ClLy or LQ6
 living where in the light and love of
 Heaven they may meet us. Why be
 cast down when angel hera1ds bid us
 look up. Why not think of the be-
 loved aged who have gone before as
 having thrown of their inf1rmities and taken on the spiritual youth which is
 divine. Why not think of those be- loved children as in the radiant pres- ence of angels who give them more
 than a mothers care and prepare them
 to becNme partakers of the ineffable
 and ever enduring blessedness of the
 heavenly home and life which we hope
 to attain
 To borrow money one needs a de- pendable endorsers but to borrow trouble. one needs no backing at all. This is not so strange if troubles are us for better things, for it is a part Of wisdom that they should be cas- fly ettafnable; and it looks as though we should be as thankful for troubles as for blessings since they are for our Improvement. Trouble has been pronounced the next best thing to en- joyment because it helps us the bet ter to appreciate it. There are re- Hgfous troubles and business troubles, and heart troubles, but we cannot
 seem to get used to them or to take them easy. We are all likely to have
 trouble enough without borrowing any and we are warned not to borrow trouble because we need all the strength we have to bear the troubles which cannot be avoided. Tribulation only hurts those whom it hardens and enbitters.
 i A man who dies young hasn't lived long enough to discover how many things he has been taught that are not
 so It takes a good many years for a cions aroused to the point where they realize 1t is necessary to seek the truth \ instead of sitting and taking it. once heard an evangelist claim that if man was not committed to some doxy be- fore he was 40 years old, no doxy could 1 ever get him. It is a generally accepted averment that a man has to be 30 years of age before he thinks of at- tempting to unlearn what he doesn't 4 know. What knowledge is, is not com n1only understood. Knowledge like re- 1 ligion must be experienced before one can possess it. and if it is not guided by grace it is said to be folly. A knowledge of self makes a man master ly, but a knowledge of others makes him wise. All great achievements are
 based upon accurate knowledge.
 ] suppose the reason the community generally is not disturbed by the sin I that is stalking abroad is because 1t is not original sin. Man has so ably per- sisted in error that there seems to be I nothing new under the sun in the way | Of shining that he can conceive of. All | the present horrors of war are older than the Egyptian pyramids. and they l long ago ceased to thrill man except | when the other tribes are indulging in 1 them. We have become accustomed to | looking abroad and gasping when we should look at home and weep. And Carlyle has registered that the worst | Of sins is to think you are not sin ner. If this is true, why should we | think so hard of Kaiser Wilhelm? We
 are all hoping for Justification. sancti- ffcation and gioriflcatiop. but we are acting as if we expected the Lord to | make saints of us as skilled artisans make angels of wood. Man can make | a game of life and not take time to
 think. When 1t comes to eternity the game is up.
 | ] hardly know what to say, Jane about insomnia I am quite sure the wide-awakes are the ones most ad- dicted to it. The people afflicted with
 it, I have noticed, are usually ready tc go to sleep when other people get up
 This, not because of oddity, but be- cause it Is a habit unconsciously &C., quired, as most habits are. I suppose
 a doctor could say something nice
 about it. but I do not know how. Ii OOeS AO SOOQ to lTeI aDOuE insomnia
 any more than 1t does good for 2 preacher to fret because his sermons
 always put his senior deacon to sleep It looks to me like a "happen- stance,
 although most people regard it as serious aff1iction. I question whether soothing syrup will be of any use. Ths best way out of insomnia is to thinl of nothing as if it were something anC ycu will soon become accustomed tS
 think of something as if it were moth. ing. and then think you will be cured
 Ask real good doctor about it.
 II A near argument, though common is not generally identifiable. It is ar argument that purrs around a subieca | like a cat with kittens about the
 trousers-leg of her master. It is de.
 signed to soothe, but not to frrftate
 No near-argument ever excites a per. son, or makes an abrupt impression
 It is supposed to seep or soak ints
 one's mind so slowly that he is sur.
 prised when he finds it there. T.
 doesn't jar a nerve or rouse a thrill
 but gently awakens one to a new
 idea, to @ new view, to a new feel
 ing. The editor in his den, the min.
 lister in the pulpit and the politician
 on the rostrurn work up near-argu
 n1ents to promote deep designs. Ther,
 is as much art in it as there is ii