Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-03
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The man who can keep a good reso- | lution honored for one day can keep 1t honored for a. year if he has a mind to. and having kept 1t d year he may
 Keep it honored forever. The trouble with good resolvers is that they select
 long terms which weak wills cannot cover. The day by day man is us-
 ually triumphant because he doesn't permit himself time to forget his pur- pose. He resolves in the morning, and censors his own acts at nightfall. He must be conscious that he was created to be the captain of his fate and the Master of his soul. It is easy to talk about masterful living, but it is most difhcut to fill the bill. God under stood mans capacity when he directed
 him to say Give us this day our daily bread" He knew if he did not do things at short intervals he would for get to do them at all. The time for a good resolution is now, not the first | of January. Long range men only succeed in making joke of good resolutions.
 A man with a guilty conscience hasn't an amtable companion, for 1t Is never less than thorn in the flesh. We all have one soon or late, and we are surprised by the energy of it's disturbances. 1t fills our minds with fear and our days and nights with mental anguish, It accuses us with perfect freedom and we can neither hush it up nor fee from it. It has us handicapped when the sheriff would have us handcuffed. It presents it's accusations more completely than the court could and we feel glad no one else can hear 1t; but secret misery is as hard to bear as open confession or judicial punishment. It may have been designed specially to lash the wicked in the dark. The torture of a bad conscience' said Calvin "is the hell of a living soul"
 Man cannot live long enough to real ize all of truth because that includes all of good in earth and in the heavens. It Is a part of mars life to invite Truth 1 to lead him from error every day. Ii we gain new truths daily and store them in memory they lend strength to l our spirituality. Truth is the lifeline | by which man is held from being over wheliaed by error. Truth is never truth because professionally good person has presented it to the mind. l but because the spirit of truth in the mind recognizes its own. Error IS often noisily heralded but truth seldom | is. Truth breaks upon the, soul as quietly as day breaks upon the earth. | And do you realize that the power | with which the Lord can draw man to l Himself is measured by mans hold l upon Him, and not by His strength. =" He reaches 9Iis hand down to us: l we must raise our hand to His and | grasp it."
 | There is nothing which more gener- ally excites interest than the we'll l hlled pocketbook- wants it l and no one would fail to pray regu- l larly for it if it was obtainable in that way. Man thinks he wants money more than he wants religion. Both are
 good to have, Money may. be the root | of all evil, but a deaf mute can tell l when money talks without being told l of it. Someone has said: 'If you | make money your god, it will plague you like the devil" but no one seems Ito be afraid to worship money. It is can buy with money, but money will not buy what the soul needs. Truth honor and conscience may be stifed by l it. What will not man do for a we'll filled pocketbook? Most anything rather than work for it. If money does I represent Mammon the church or man cannot get along without it.
 July, the nfd-year month, is here with it's silences and it's promoni- tions of autumn. The birds sing less
 in the morning and in the evening, parted and the foliage has taken on the rich deep color which marks the riEening which precedes decay. The 1 joy of the morning and the evening seems to have departed; the days are
 growing shorter and before the month 1 ends the birds will be seen in f1ocks | getting ready for the first nigrations south; and yet, dog-days are in the future and vacation days galore. The l gardens are only just completed which l in a glamour Of beauty in SepteGlber will besrnitten by the frosts. The ' -1ws- ! .7- remind us more of fall than spring. Il is not so far from the blue bachelors buttons to the blue gentians as we think. Time gathers in the weeks with steady persistence and the past
 is continuously being enlarged.
 An exhibit Of warrinq nations prompts us to inquire what patriotism is. It was just such conditions as we
 now see, perhaps, which made John son declare Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundreli'' He is doubt less a patriot who upholds the law and the government and fights fol
 dares all and risks all for the pub lie good. It is possible for patriots to be led to iInpatriotic acts by lead CTS inspired by greed and ambition for fame. Might is rightl" has beer the slogan of bfagards and pirates
  Il superior numbers and an abuse o1 power destroy nations and make vas sals Of their people are robbers an6 l tyrants. There is no patriotism 1T
 conquest. for that noble quality is found only in the defence of all thai
 is near and dear to the human soul
 Men oftener fight as adventurers thar as patriots.
 The self made man has no more
 reason to be proud of himself thar
 the unmade man has to be of his an
 cestors. No man of sense ever thinks
 he is a wonder because some one tell.
 him he is. The f1atterer is always al easy liaf-le usually makes no pre- tense of telling the truth. It is his
 business to stuff the cohceited as it il
 the cooks to stuff a goose. The self
 made man who thinks he has lifted 1. himself by his own bootstraps is sui. i fering from an hallucination. Som,
 one eise furnished the leverage ant
 Iput energy into the lift. Edison il
 great because he made practical fdeas which had been in existence long be , fore he was born-his own idea! I would not have made him what he Il without the volume of scholarship
 (which preceded him. The material ab
 Isorbed by men makes them distin } guished, and it Is the 5etsa1n and fot , Euarn faafs fifl0r fha fiifa of life b-