Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Sunday Morning Talk
"HE GOT. HIS"

It was after the trial and d group of acquaintances were discussing the yer dict. Well, he certainly got his!' re- marked one in awestrucll tone of the late defendant now being escorted un- easy to sec how inevitably in the light of the past career the present unhappy situation had arrived. At last the law breaker had surely gotten his
 After all doesn't everyone in this moral world get Hhis?'' Aren't the pared for. and the things we miss those we have voluntarily rejected? The Bible says: Whatsoever a. man seweth that shall he also reap" Does that represent poetry or fact?
 That 1t represents Sact is one of the first life lessons that must be learned. l doubt whether there is any. convic- ton whatever more essential to the moral health of a boy CT girl than that this is an ordered World-that in 1t we gain the rewards fol. which we are will ing to pay the price in terms of labor, self-denial and strength, and also meet the losses our sins or our deficiencies make inevitable. ::
 In a thousand specific cases the con- nection between sowing and Teapfne cannot be clearly traced. I do not know why it is that a good man should suffer or why bad man should four
 ish on this earthly sod like green bay tree. The world to come will doubtless shed light on these problems. But, meanwhile, it is useful to believe at least that neither success nor failure is achieved by luol1-by any blind play of lose is appropriate to our <endeayors.
 We come into our own zsis
 Proverbs in abundance eIlhody this
 truth that men have learned: ''No
 pains, no gains:' t'N6 mill, no meal; '
 Diligence is the mother of good luck, ' and so on. Through centuries of expe- rience the race has discovered the fact that, in the long run, life, plays fair
 with us.
 It is one of the mysteries that with all the accumulated experience of the years, so many make unreasonable de
 mands of life. They expect to dance
 without paying the fiddler. With the
 solid testimony of centuries against
 him, debonair young John Henry will run up an account with nature and then attempt to side-step the bill. Why
 should he imagine himself to be SC much smarter than his ancestors? :? The one safe prediction regarding John Henry is that he is going, to pay the bill. Moreover, interest is charged and there are no rebates. .-"r .tr me success LnaG comes to one Ike- wise is his own, because he has pre- pared for it. In the largest sense it is true that each man shapes his owr fortune, each woman hers. Success comes because one has fulfilled the conditions. We learn how Leon Gam betta, the French orator and states man, leaped into fame at one bound A single speech of his raised him iron; oblivion to the post of Premier oi
 France. When a friend remarked or his luck in conquering fame by g single speech, GInabctta broke ou' impetuously: tI was years preparing that speech. Twenty times I wanted to deliver it, but did not feel that hat it here (touching his head). though ii palpitated here 6thunping his breast}
 as if it would break my heart'' For years he had been mastering the facts of the political situation and pre- pairing a line of argument to be uset in the crucial hour. He got his tri- umph because he had earned it.
 Of Judas, the traitor. the Scripture records that he went ito his owT place." Judas went to his own place
 and so did John and Paul and Nero So does every man. That is the law of life. It is the first step In our edti cation to learn that one rearss what hs sows, that from now to the end O. l time he is going to get his"
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