Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| We arc often warned to have a care | We must have caution to get on well | In the world. Vigilance is cares eld-
 est child, everywhere recognized as | the preserver of liberty. Care can be l made a blessing or burden He who takes care to bed with him has
 Morpheus forestalled. Shakespeare | says. Care keeps his watch in every
 old mans eye, and where care lodges sleep will never he." Care should al- ways be treated as a guest and never | be recognized as a master. It is up | to us to see that our cares do not be- | come burden. We must know when | to be alive to them and when to be l dead to them. Care may be a protec- l tion or a rust-it may make us wise to | truth or a victim of folly.
 1 Nowhere are the mistakes of our l lives more disclosed than in health or | lack of it. There are few things which contribute more to health than exercise and temperance in all | things. The habit of charging up to l the Lord our earthly afflictions is a common way even pious people have of l of laying our dyspepsia upon the Lord when the doctors assure" us it is simply the protest of an abused stom- ach. When God bestowed health upon mankind as the blessing above all other mortal blessings, he must | have expected him to have sense enough to preserve it; but by the vii o1ation of divine law man manages to l impair it, and then if he is able pays specialists big fees to help him correct his own mistakes. Man likes to have l his way, but is not willing to pay the price.
 Many people think they are in good company when they are with them selves, when really some of them could i not be in worse company. If envy,
 malice, pride. vanity, jealousy, hatred l or lust were visible would you feel proud to walk with even one of them | Many people feel good who are guilty l of harboring and taking counsel of | this whole group of miscreant | of some of them when saying their prayers. How the idea of exclusive | ness is misapplied by many people. | They do not think deep enough to rout these defilers of heart and mind. When we come to consider seriously our af- | fliations we should look within before we look without. No one can tell | what may be lurking behind fine | clothes, brilliant intellects, suave | manners and good pretences in this world. To the pure all things are pure, but to the fashionable most 1 earthly things seem to be impure.
 | Fraud requires many changes of at-
 tire. He has to appear respectable )n | order to command confidence Fraud
 was regarded a gum-game beforo it
 rose to the dignity of a gum-shoe pre- | fession. It came to be gum game 1 because quack doctor in Idaho vac l cinated the people with mucilaSe to | make them immune from the small pox. It has been known to appear as ] the undertaken at a funeral in order | to steal the coffin plate, and as a judge ! to issue bogus certificates of citizen l it doesn't like to, for it prefers the | mask of a financier to rake in the
 millions of the people. It gets into responsible positions oftener than it l gets into jail.
 What is war? Fifty hundred thcu- sand dead in ninety-four weeks, two | thirds as many homes stricken wi h | grief and draped in mourning, twen ] ty hundred thousand widows, and fifty 1 hundred thousand fatherless children
 and half as many made homeless; l three little countries made 'deSoIate. by 1 hordes of marching soldiers, h5rseuien and artillery-Serbia, Poland, Bei- gium-a hundred million people ep- preaching the verge of starvation bil- | lions in wealth worse than wasted, | twelve nations in arms and all the rest of the world in a foment. This is the I answer 1915 gives to this question. What is it all for? To check luraey
 and keep the people free from brigan- l dage and tyranny. -s..S -- Someone has said. We can argue | against a doctrine, but no one is cap able of arguing against a pure motive embodied in a good deed" It has been | pointed out that the motive may De | of greater importance to the individual l than the deed itself We are too often doctrinaires instead of good Sar,ari- i tans. We fret and flIme and fuss over | the things of least importance and 1 neglect the things of greatest impor- l importance in the world to come than what you be. It is not organized force ! which is to win, but spiritual purity. | The soul that is not capable of rec ] ognizing reality from pretense will
 have to learn its spiritual lessons in
 some other world than this. + is I what he fails to comprehend that | hampers man in this world and checks | him from making real progress.
 It is perfectly natural for us to yearn i for what we hope for; the young yearn
 for success. and the aged and weary | for rest; the disappointed yearn for | better conditions, and the seemingly 1 satisfied, even, are inclined to yearn 1 for conditions a little different a little | Deller. AHlDlIlOn IS the IaCnor or our l dreams, and they are the foundation
 of our hopes. If we didn't hope, we should despair. Life furnishes no mid | dle ground for us. Perhaps, if we did | not yearn, we should not be capable l of being inspired. Yearning is a quiet | and rational form of unrest which
 seldom ends in violence, for it points
 the way to achievement through eff | ciency. It does no good to yearn unless
 you act in harmony with desire.
 | Anger gets hold of a man when he
 l lets go of himself. The only mission
 of anger seems to be to get a man into
 l trouble and to leave him in remorse
 | meet for repentance. Anger simply
 feeds upon every fool who entertains
 | it. - There is nothing complimentary
 1 to be said of wrath. Some people be-
 1 lieve God is angry with the wicked
 every day because they are wholly un-
 mindful of the bad example such a
 habit would make of him. Those who
 fly into a passion do not fail to recog-
 1 niZe the fury and fooliShneSS of it af=