Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

If you allow anyone to excite your
fear, you have permitted them to do
you an injury. To create fear in chill
dren to keep them quiet may impair
them for life. A little fear Will breed
terror If you give it a little encourage
ment just as caution may breed a
timidity which will handicap a soul in
all the callings of life. Care and judg-
ment are necessary in all of the af-
fairs of men. Most of the ghosts Of
a harried imagination may be shoo-ed
away. Man can get into such state
of mind that his blessings get nouldy
and he comes to regard them as curses.
More than half the things men, fear
never materialize. Someone has said:
Many of our cares are only morbid
way OF looking at our privileges" In
the realm of fear what should be ordt--
narily pleasant dreams become night
mares. It is possible to become so
tinid you will not dare grab yourself
enslave subjects. Do not fear to DO
wrong. 1t is better to have courage
to do right. As Bishop Hare Declares:
Right is might, and ever was and ever
shall be sol"
"Hew short our happy days appear"
wrote Jean Ingelow, "how long the
sorrowful." Another trite saying is:
Time hangs heavily ON the hands of
an idle man. Idleness and disease and
idleness and sorrow are more closely
allied than we think The price of
health and success and pleasure is Tac-
tivity. Keeping busy is just keeping
in accord with nature, which is never
idle. Get move on" means more
than mere physical exercise. The
mind which goes hand in hand with
purpose, like time, flies. The hours are
short when zeal inspires effort and
both light and love illumine our way.
Where sorrow dweils the air is heavy
and existence becomes oppressive. 1t
may be true that a man may see far
ther. through a tear than through a
telescope" but he rarely admires the
view. though by it he may be greatly
benefited. Man hath the power to
break away from sorrow for hath not
the Great Physician assured him
Earth has no sorrow heaven cannot
heal" The sorrowful day cannot be
escaped. but the lesson Of it may
finally increase our joy and make life
the sweeter.
The world does not highly prize it's
most precious treasures and some Of
| them it does not recognize. Everything
| old seems to be treasured by someone,
somewhere, but old mothers, and they
are left to their sorrows and to God.
| Why should we not all be able to say
| with the poet. L love Ola mOGnerS-
mothers with white hair, and kindly
l eyes. and lips grown softly sweet
They have mothered generations, made
| homes, taught the divine precepts
which laid broad foundations for the
| characters of those entrusted to them
and sung the songs of love and cour-
/ age which have inspired men in all
ages to do noble deeds. They pass be-
fore US decrepit, with forms bent and
| faces furrowed and hands which have
| lost their shapeliness, but the love has
not gone from their eyes or the hope
| from their hearts. We are taught to
salute the flag, but we pass these
mothers who have labored early and
| late to make happy homes and true
| citizens and good government without
| recognizing them as worthy our ven
| GRAFTON and respect.
Do not be too confidina. 1t is one
lof the worst of faults to be telling
others of matters which had better
be kept to ones self. Others do mo-
care to learn of things which may
fret them, or at some future time cal
them into court as a witness. 1t il
a virtue to invoke silence where mis-.
cries or secrets are concerned. We d.
not need make anyone a partner il
our trials There are many crise.
in life which it does us good to NEE
single-handed and overcome alone. d.
! the pressure. Many men have bornt
I'VE times as much and found them
selves stronger because they did no
yield to the temptation to weaken.
is good exercise to learn to hold thu
fort all by ones self. Fretting anC
Tuning over trivialities has taken tn,
starch out of many a life. WASTING
time and energy just breeds trials
} and inspires us to magnify them B.
sure it takes something to jar 20,
and when you are Jared do not b.
, alarmed by the vibrations, for they ar
natural and are not worth fussin!
about.
: Humility ought to be a conference
{ meeting topic until it is understood
[ Not many have a true conception o
the humility they profess to be anx
. ious to manifest in their lives. HUI
mility has been defined as the bond @
all virtues, and it cannot be repre-
sented by the grovelling worm becaus
it includes grace and dignity, neithe
| OF which marks a worms career. Prid
changes angels into devils-humilit
made Jesus Of Nazareth a King.
takes as much tact to stoop to rise a
1t does to speak the right word at tn
3 right moment. How do we know W
= are humble? Many a person has fe
humble who was not conscious tha
| humility Is power, not weakness.
s was ST. Bernard who pointed out, 90
= is no great thing to be humble whe
lyou are brought low, but to be humid
when you are praised is a great an
!, rare attainment" The pietist VIII
feels as insignificant as a grain
. dust isn't feeling humble-he is ju!
feeling mean. If that were the trr
feeling of humility it could not /
!; said humility is the finest pearl in tt
q Christians crown.
1t is up to US alt to remember an
violent extremes endure: sober moo
q Grafton stands secure" 1t is not
such consequence to be the popul;
o thing as it Is to be the right thin
10 If you do not get into the rush of Ii
you are less likely to become victim
of its catastrophes. GO slow and ket
is in the middle of the road" is a home
Ie chunk of wisdom which brings it's ov
"a reward. The wind which whistle
loudest is soon blown out-the ms
who talks the loudest seldom max
the most impressive argument 4
/ extreme in any direction is nothii
to less than mistake. AS someone h
II. written: Extreme heat kills; and
does extreme cold Extreme love bree
satiety-so does extreme hatred. T.
lg much rigor tempts chastity as do
~ too much license. Extremes tf1oul
contrary have like effects" Being i