Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-24
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The man wita scheme is always looking after citizen of influence, a man with a bank account or an heir
 ess with rosy prospects. He is inclined to hunt rather than work and makes
 no disguise of the fact that he is de-
 termined to live by his wits if possible. He is a doer in the unrighteous sense, for he is determined to do the world
 out of a living, if he cannot do any individuals out of a part of their sur plus. He considers himself shrewd and every victim of his wiles he points to as evidence of his shrewdness.
 It is not pleasant to be classified among those done. He deals in
 honeyed words and glittering promises, and he is fishing for your confidence and a portion of your bank account He professes to be so anxious to ad- vance your material interests when he is promoting his own that he will catch you if you do not watch out
 Vigilance is the price of freedom. Homemade advice is just as good as any other brand if we don't take it as calmly; and why 1t is the most irritating. who can tell? Those nearest to us have in us the greatest interest, and look upon us with the most gen. uine solicitude-they hope and pray we may be better than they are, and
 may escape all the pitfalls which have marred their lives. We consider these kindly offices meddling, don't we? We wish they knew enough to mind their
 own business, instead of wishing we
 were capable of properly interpreting their anxious care and sincere warnings. Some people never live long enough to discover homemade advice is usually the best and worth needing. The what-I-should-ha d0nAS 0a st pleasant contemplations. In ignoring good advice many a man has turned himself down.
 between a man and his wife is indif- ference, for this is a difference not
 readily settled When the heart gets cold, indifference presents itself as naturally as mildew follows continuous dampness-where the heart is warm was Ouida who declared indifference to be ''the invincible giant of the world" Indifference in marital life is | like a black frost in the garden-it wipes out beauty, 1t makes an end of thrift and every good feature of life. The observers of the world have noted that nothing grand or noble ever came from indifference, for these are bred l of unity and enthusiasm.
 Wnoh see 1ne Q6TOFme0 and Cr1p- pied I think they may be spiritually i whole while I am not. A physical | handicap Is not the worst thing that | can befall us, for their impairments | are not their own, while our spiritual deficiencies are generally traceable to | ourselves, and are not to be easily 1 overcome. We all hope we shall not I find ourselves when freed from this life crippled for the next. How deeply | we feel for the unfortunate discloses | NIIr r,4% rr1 .kr, | 1 ness which gives no sign is evidence I of unfitness for association with those whose goodness is angelic. The se1- 1 fish do not get much pleasure in this | life. and they have no promise of any | in the next. The spiritual joy which lights up the faces of many of earth's | unfortunates puts the able bodied to l shame.
 St. Paul used to say in his heart all men are liars. probably, because it would not have been safe for him to openly declare it: and suspect dealers | have reason to think ali men are dis honest who haven't proved themselves to be upright in their dealings The idea of getting something for nothing is really such a passion among the people that bakers have to charge for p1e-plates and grocers for milk bottles, refunding the money when they are returned. One small dealer in a little religious community lost forty-dozen milk bottles, and then he began to hold the price of the bottle against all cus- stomers to secure himself. As local baker remarked: 'Fine families are
 awful forgetful when it comes to re- turning pie-plates! Few consciences
 seem to have made a note of the fact Fit Is sin to ssteal a pin!" Nothing
 can make little 'dishonesties right or
 respectable. Why do you suppose they
 are so general? When St Peter in quires why didn't you take back your
 neighbor's milk bottle or pie-plate, do you think you can say: T forgot it," and pass?
 If grumbling and criticising could have improved conditions in this life the millennium would have been here long ago. We all of us have too much acid in our blood and too little love in our hearts. It doesn't do to say all
 of us know we are not anywhere near
 as good as we profess to be. We do not care about the beam in our own eye, because we are so interested in the
 mote in our neighbours eye; when if we
 removed the beam from our own eye we might discover that the mote in our neighbours eye was a shadow of our own beam. We have not been mis-
 directed for the finger of righteousness
 always points true. We do not shape ourselves to divine precepts, we do not
 
 and hope which come of trust. We decline to recognize God is all, pro- vides all, and that we are trustees, not only to show the power of His love, but in passing out his substance. There are too many men and l women who prefer an ounce of hattery to a pound of chocolate drops; and
 those who cultivate sweet little moth i ings' cater to their taste for honeyed
 words, for the place they may win in their hearts, or for the favor of their
 courteous attention or their hearty commendation. Flattery is quite a factor in the game of getting into so- ciety and staying in; and the people who pass sugar-coated compliments, find great pleasure in this occupation
 and they pass them out just as waiter in a cafe does, without any questions as to whether they are cold storage or canned goods. You look so lovely it affords one great pleasure to meet you. Tt is a joy to receive such sweet consolation from such A--1