Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS

that seems to us designed to do our peighbor good. We like to say: "The parson has the courage of his convic- tions! He hits MT. Hury-Gurdy hard and he deserved it!" Somehow we get familiar with the failings of every one excepting ourselves; and we know the medicine they need. How much better 1t would be if we were conscious of our own faults and anxious to mend them. Now there isn't a single one of us in the church or out of 1t who wouldn't pull the brim of our hats down over them If our faults were printed on our foreheads. It would be in the best form to praise the sermon that punctured our own helmet and prompted us to immediately make re- pairs. While we are seeing faults in every one else no one sees perfection in US. There are none who can show up our faults to us like an enemy. We all have them; and he who thinks he has none Is the most faulty of all. Get eagle eyed for your own blemishes and Charity will come and sit right down with you.
 War is waking up the fighting na- ttonS to the worthlesSness of the mil lions who indulge in spirituous liquor as beverage. All these drinkers are recognized as 8 burden not a defence. They are useless in any emergency where courage and endurance are re-
 
 the walks of industry and citizenship. Russia and Great Britain have recog- nized the necessity for prohibiting this destructive traffic because 1t is recog-1 nized as the worst foe of a nation. the blight which degrades manhood, mu1tiplies novels and paupers and creates slums-the cancer which changes It's victims into dependents and criminals and is a menace to gov ernment in times of peace and war. he S1a nf ho no fS 1nCS iua. briety and an improved manhood. What is the hookworm compared with the worm which produces imbecility and every form of misery.
 When man learns to seek the points of unity in his fe1lowmen instead cf the points of difference he will have made wonderful progress for general happiness and peace. Since he has spent a hundred thousand years on earth without acquiring this sensible habit, it is too much to expect him to suddenly take the step, for he has become so confirmed in discussing the differences that the true and the good which men should find pleasure in recognizing have become obscured, hence the good and pleasure of dwell- ing together in unity Is lost sight of. Those who profit by keeping our preju- dices and anirnosities alive will never let us rest until we become conscious of their blind and selfish aims. We must abide in the truth and the truth will reveal to us its power for good, and bring US into better relations with one another. Our differences are often insignificant compared with the. great truths upon which we all agree.
 Whatever else you may be led to expect do not let anything convince you to expect others to consider your 5,,L +v-@, N1@cS all your own and it is up to you to be their executioner- and the only one to say a word at their burial. No body likes to listen to a tale of woe, and the rules of the courts were de- signed to cut them short. You may make oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth till doom's day, but you'll never get a chance to tell it if the lawyers can prevent you. There is always trouble enough to go round, but those who cannot wait for their share will bor- row trouble. Trouble is just as es- sential to life as joy, but man has no use for a super-abundance Of either. Trouble is said to have been divinely designed to just fashion us for better things. As a wireless message I fear this may be no truer than some of the messages we are getting from the war zone centers. None of us thank God for our troubles, and we are careless GDOuL ludIlh4llS lILil 4O1 Ou1 OlOSS1A6S' Our troubles are good to keep under our feet.
 1t was Josh Billings who said: If a man can't laff there WIZ some mis- take made in putting him together" We did not dare to think half cen tury ago that God could make a mis- take, for we had always been taught His was perfect work. But the Metchinkoffs and the serum makers who have devised 29 distinct cultures to kill the microbes God has let loose to destroy us have discovered 125 mistakes in the structure of the hu- man body, and consider Divine work as faulty as the work of man. We are not obliged to believe all this un- til these great scientists have i'm proved man by free use of the was doubtless that the man who cudn't t1aff'' was born without a '.funny-bone." But since these scientists allege that man can be morally improved by trepanning and and physically improved by having his tonsils cut out and thrown away, it seems to have been scientific discov- cry Josh Billings made, although he lived and died thinking it was a joke. The statement that man is fearfully ernized to read "blunderingly made"
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 It is easy to sit down and write ''The poorest, mortal in the world is the one who has no purpose in life" This may be true, but did you ever meet him. Everybody we have ever met had a purpose in life if 1t was no better CT higher than sponging a living out Of some, ons else; and those who sponge their living out of others are not nec- essarily loafers,~ for they may be de- signers of ways and means, which all ways include excessive profits as well as policy and craps. There Is a lot of cheap talk about having aims and ideals but the man who has six in the family and is trying to house. feed and clothe them on ten dollars 8 week can not be impressed that good dreams have any real value: and If he has been doing 1t too long he has a faint heart when he tries to hope for good fortune. Every man has to squfnt along his own lifeline, and some are long and some short, and too many have Ephe- sians u:12 indelIib1y written at the end. God made the sunshine to brighten our way and the robin to sing 'Cheer. up!'" Cheer up!" but the devil made mans oppressors. and most of them wear the mantle of the church to serve the devil in. .,.-,
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