Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-30
Sunday Morning Talk
THINKING WHITE.

It is the inner life rather than the outer that makes or breaks us. Cir cumstances, whether good or bad, have but minor effect on nne whose spiritual kingdom Is secure. It is great consolation for some of us who neither wear purple and fine linen nor fare sumptuously every day. Not withstanding almost any physical roundings. the right thinking people can be happier than kings. For hap piness Is a state of mind, and roth ing material at all.
 Dan Crawford. heroic missionary, lived in the wilds of Africa until he learned to think black" The narra- tive of his experiences makes as in teresting a book as one need read. Surely few white men have to entered into the thoughts, ambitions and out look of the dusky trfbesmen as has this missionary who has now gone back for another twenty years in the jungle.
 Of course it is better for the most of us, if a choice must be made, to learn to think white" than to think | "black." Doubtless MT. Crawford would say as much himself The thoughts of an enlightened Christian sutely ought to be better worth while than l those of a naked savage in the wilds. His mental range should be broader, | his aspirations higher, his purposes purer. He draws, as the savage does not, on the moral wealth of the cen- l turies.
 If one Is really to classify as a
 white man" he must think white. "
 Any deed whatsoever was imagined
 before 1t was done. Out of the heart
 are the issues of life. Sometimes | fhnrrohf hn lnnpr Iod hut l in the end, like murder, it will "Cut.' | If it were suddenly decreed tl,at the | thoughts of any of us should he ex-
 hibited, as pictures are thrown on the
 screen, how many would not recoi | from the ordeal? Who would want al
 his thoughts to be known? Whai wife would want her husband to know \ all her thoughts, what husband hii wife, what father his son?
 Sometimes one is enabled to peel for a second into the thought woriC of another, and it is like a glimpse in.
 to an inferno. What hatreds, jeal. ousies, begtial desires are there, whai
 blackness as of the pit! If the king
 dom of heaven is within men, tn,
 kingdom of hell is there. too.
 In this world, where evil dweils
 however. there are minds that ar,
 pure. Granting that all mortals fai
 of perfection, some there he who arr
 obviously on the road thither. In in l tent they are nOneSIs cnar1taDle, ant
 kind. The outgoings of their though
 toward other people are touched witt benevulence. They wish good for
 tune to their neighbors. They bear m
 grudge.
 . lt 10 not easy to cultivate such al attitude. If one starts to do 1t he vii . discover speedily the distance he ha to go to reach the goal. He is likel to find what a spiteful creature h } really is. After all that civilizatio } and religion have tried to do a goo 7 deal of the wild cat, the tiger and tn } pig remain in all of us. -"s Il Yet here, as elsewhere. practic makes perfect. It Is not so hard | l think white after one gets the habi , Begin with the next acquaintance yo , meet. Let your thought toward hir . be one of benevolence, even if 1t is ex l presstd by nothing more than a heart Good morning." We are living at ou } best when we begin to think white. 3 is Gods own way with us, for the Al 8 mighty is kind even to the unthanlxf, 8 and the evil, and sendeth rain on tn THE PARsoN.