Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-02
Sunday Morning Talk
INTENSIVE LIVING.

Japan can teach America how to- till the soil Over here we glibly use the term intensive farming" but over there they actually do the thing. Each square plile of the Mikado's em- pire that is under cultivation furnish es food for almost 2300, people. At that rateNthe titled fields of any single one of a score of our Western States would support more people than now live in the whole country. s s5r
 Your Oriental requires no 10-acre lot for a kitchen garden. He supports his family on a corner of land that Si Perkins, of New Hampshire would re- fuse for a dump. The Jap or the Chinaman blows deep, fertilizes heav- fly and gets three crops a year. Hav- ing but little. he makes the most of it.
 A useful trick, that of the JapI One who learns it can get lot out of the pay dividends in other spheres than farming.
 Not widespread diversity. but con centrated vigor of efforts counts. Most of us could raise son1e kind of a prize crop if we would till well our single acre. The trouble is that we make a try at tho whole farm. Think it over. Clarence. Are you conserving or scat | tering your energies? Are you spread ing out your endeavors wide and thin, or doing with your whole might some particular thing your hands have found | to do?
 Rigid limitation of effort is harder | and wiser than it seems. Good people | there are who apparently think them selves responsible for every form oi | helpful activity practised among men The mistake is a natural, but a great
 only for that particular bit of worl that fits his particular powers. A mar
 once remarked that he did not car'
 for much real estate. he only wanted
 to buy all the land that adjoined hii
 own. He is about equally cracked who thinks that he must accept everl opportunity for service that appears ol the horizon. To do one thing well. o
 at most, two or three, is about tn limit for most humans. To attemp
 more would stagger an archangel.
 Hapiness. too, waits on intensiv
 methods. It is less the range than tn
 vigor of our enjoyments that counts
 The happy man is one who has learn
 ed to taste the sweetness of common
 experiences. He will get more req
 car than his neishbor knows in tou
 de luxe across the continent. Here 1
 one way in which a kindly Providenc
 balances the apparently uneven iote , of men.
 | of time in order to live? Are we wait ing for the years to bring us som
 large gift before we can be happy
 At the present moment we live a really as we ever will be living. Wh do we imagine we shall be coutente
 by and by. if not now? Says Emerson Write 1t bn your heart that ever ] day is the best day in the year. " man has learned anything rightly un , til he knows that every day Is Dooms i day." a
 Ones garden plot may be small. bu he should never forget that he own , all the way up. and all the way dowi i do with 1t if he will throw out tn ' rocks and pull up the weeds and brin a Lit all under cultivation. Methusela f existed on the earth. according to th i, record. for 96A years. But he lived les : than anyone who is minded to h a I each day between sun's rising. an o setting, with honest work. clean flu 2 and a spirit of serene courage ~ THE PARSON.