Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-30
THE MAN WHO TALKS

You know that old and popular quotation: An honest man is the nobiest work Of Godt" How do you suppose this maxim has lived so long among men? Do you suppose God eyer created any but honest uten2 How can any Of Gods work be less than nobieg If all his works are di- vine where does the noblest come in? An honest man places himself over cause Of their honesty are not nobler than other honest men. All men would be honest and honorable if they would honor divine precepts. Man as a free agent makes himself dishonest and dishonorable. The honest man is godlike. So Is the action of the man who lifts where others only stand and pity. An honest man is splen- did representative of divine princi- pies. All the works of God are noble completing tho conJugation.
 What is loyalty but obedience to the powers that be regardless of loyalty to the principles which form odoxy and loyalty and disloyalty are all defined In this: my convictions are loyal-your convictions disloyal-my doxy Is orthodoxy, your doxy, heter- odoxy. German officials have just clAOL di WOkIldA DSCduSS 6AS dlQeQ SOl- dicrS of the entente to get out Of Bel gium into France in Keeping with her convictions and sympathies, had she helped Germans to have escaped from France into Belgium she might have been presented an iron cross for her loyalty instead of having been shot as a spy. The Armenians are disloyal to Turkey because they will not violate their Christian consciences and do as they are ordered. To be disloyal to others under some circumstances is true loyalty, and the most honorable action. The loyalty that counts is loyalty to the best that is in us re- gardless of what the. world thinks about it.
 Never get mad with your wife be- cause she doesn't even smile at your bright remarks. You don't know how they sound to her. It is a wise pre- caution to test them at home, and if they do not excite a smile to forget them The bright remark habit Is one of the things that make a bore of man. There is current saying when you laugh at a fool he thinks you are laughing with him." There IS no use of following the danger line too far from home and becoming it. The wife who bars you from getting brighter than you be. It doesn't pay to be so contented with ourselves thet we become discontented with our | wives. A good wife naturally feels | that she is a guardian of her hus- bands conduct and that she is not when he Is only silly. Keep cool l when your domestic expectations are l dashed.
 Young fellow, good behavior may be offensive to a sport. but 1t never has l got 0nvhn6V into ia1 nn 10 afraid of the gibe or the jeer you get when you decline to violate your own conviction of what is orderly or right. Doing right never lost the respect of any one for you; but those who would lead you into evil ways will eventually be the very ones to l remind you what fool you have been. 1 They never pity you-they always blame. A spirit of honor cannot rest perInauently upon anything but con- | science you respect yourself Have | the will to say no and to abide by it
 A will that is violated gets weaker and weaker and makes the battle o1
 life the harder to fight. Be true Truth is the shield which will pro-
 tect you from error. Above all be true to yourself or you will not be
 able to be faithful to anyone else. Yot can only feel the power of truth by
 being loyal to it.
 1 Ou nave oouDtIS89 noS1Ce0 that the common people are the most earnest believers in a future life; but have you thor91t that material poverty is often rewarded with spiritual treas ures, while material wealth makes mortals smile at the mention of spirit.
 ual riches. It is the people who are satisfied with life here who are weak est in their faith in a higher life and \ a better world. The law of compen. sation appears to be pretty thorough.
 ly demonstrated right before our eyes
 yet how blind we are to the fact tha
 those who trust in the promises o
 God find the Comforter while those who depend upon their reason ana
 their own achievements find discom.
 fort and cannot be comferted. w
 all have a spiritual body to nourisi as well as a physical body, and if W.
 starve the spiritual we shall have nt
 grip upon the eternal verities whicl
 mean so much to man.
 l Who is the real boomer of com muntty? The man of good characte and thrifty habits comes as near be ing permanent boomdr of a place a any one can be. What prirharil,
 booms any place is first its good repu
 tation and second its spirit of enter kprise. Nothing helps a town or cit more than an inviting market an facilities for entertainment of ever
 kind. with good government and req
 sonable taxes. Nothing hurts a com
 munity more than shiftless manage ! men: and too many saloons an shysters in trade. Some enthusiast !. seem to think you can boom a rotte
 egg by praising it? You cannot. Tn 5 boomers of the town are the men wh earn wages, spend their money a 2 home and who always pay their debt
 The men who shout are of little con
 sequence compared to the men wh , pay. What you say must have tn
 support of what you do if you woul
 be a real boomer.
 Many hard worked man (
 woman have made the mistake ( e holding in their minds the though d that they were drudges or wag e slaves. This method of pressing one
 self down should be avoided.
 doesn't make any difference in tn |. work-a-day life who presses down c you if you get the habit of pressin \. up. Some people need hard knocks = wake them up to the thought tn,
 there is usually a. way to better cond
 tlcns and to prompt them to lind 1 g Most hard luck is self-created-it r tho outcome of our own lack of pel l. caption or persistence. We shou ;. avoid becoming too conscious of ol e trials or afflictions. Every one hi
 them, and those who think least ar
 say the least about them overcon