Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| II IL ability to do slxilifally whatever
we may undertake to do. IL is gem
orally applied to work. but Cts
fust as well when applied to rest, or
to EXPRESSION. We are Inclined to
llaurh at. the people who believe that
by going into the silence at regular
Intervals daily they will gain yt&Ur
Of mind and spiritual power. We mock
/ in silent prayer at a certain hour eve<S
day results In dynamic force and
eventual achievement. Why DO we rid
icule acts and principles which i
Efacienc1 representa- knowing when TO
rest as well as when to work, how to
4 think to make more valuable or per-
feet our work Anyone Is ef1cient who
and stops A lack OF efficiency makes
wrecks of human beings as we'll as
wrecks Of systems and governments
The way cut Of darkness Is light
material Or mental darkness. To SIT
/ say: Il do not know is surrender to-
/ ignorance. It Is what we do not know
| in every direction which puts us in
constant peril It is what we do know
which increases our freedom from fear
and embarrassment of every kind. The
person resolved to know the truth. II
possible, ~ always alert for illuminat-
ing knowledge. II took persistence and
valor to learn that the world was
| round, and that freedom is the birth
| right of every human soul. The rem
edy for scepticism of any sort is ra-
i tionaf Knowiedge kupon the questions
which are involved in doubt; and the
remedy for spiritual stagnation is act
uaf search for truth, with the light
we have. There is no harm in being
a doubter, the mischief is done by all
lowing doubt to paralyze you.
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of progress, the way in a, measure to
J realize the faith he has in himself and
the hope he entertains for himself. He
cannot find the way alone, he needs a
| guide book, not a guide-book that de-
scribes the scenery and notes events
. the mind and the way to make the
man master of the power God has
, placed within him. Such a guide
book is often worth ten times fits
: a dollar. This is where a man car
, make his best dividend producing in
:. yestment. Health and Power Through
: Creation" by Paul Ellsworth, is such
u a book. 1t will help you to conservs
s misdirected energy. how to becoms
y how to overcome the errors Of though
: and action which prevent you from
= | realizing your hopes. Send $1.10 Il
The Elizabeth Towne Co.. Holyoke
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3 ten chapters and you will always con
e slider it to have been a fine invest
r ment.
: A divine of other days is quoted a
"a saying: "Only the fear OF God car
= deliver us from the fear of men,"
~ the fear of God made US love Hin
y this would be true. but is it fear o
n love which draws US toward one an
other and toward our Heavenly Faith
er? Fear has been excited too mucl
in the interest of goodness. Fear
! simply suppression, the way Of tyran
= n.y. while mercy and goodness is tn
- way of larger freedom and joy. 1t
rs true knowledge of God and fait
OF in His promises which delivers us froT
~ the fear of men. Life teaches plaini
D. that fear stands for failure: and til
,gt Scriptures that love stands for. powe
l. and supremacy and liberty and i'm
. mortal life.
u The man may be happy who ow,
no man and lets no man owe hin
re but we have no idea how such cond
al tions can be possible 1t would |
~ difficult to attain and maintain the.
te conditions of independence If thu
ce only applied to material things. "
CO are all in debt to those who came b,
- full and comfortable. Every gene
CT alton is indebted to the preparers
en the way and the dispensers
Ill light in the generations which ha'
ed preceded them. This generation cam
We claim all the credit for it's progre
es or enlightenment--no generation ca
as When you come to think of 1t, Il
n, debts which cannot be paid in dolla
- and cents represent our greatest obi
ne cations and these debts of honor Ct
n only be liquidated by doing som
thing great and lasting to make t
he rising generation deeply obligated
We US.
oh have always noticed that the CHI
AZ who tells what he did last week h
- is going to do next week by just tn
no lap. The habit OF anticipating is
he bad habit-the habit of doing M
n what is to be done is a good one.
nut tackle the hardest chore Of the
ial the first thing in the morning is
done at noon. The work that
done should loom up, not the we
which is undone 1t is the part
we wisdom to keep the mountain behi
cir US instead of before. To look do
and see how high we have climb
boosts-to look up and contemplt
he what is before US checks. All insp
- alton comes from things which ha
'sA been accomplished, not from thir
that are going to be done.
~. What man does know is alws
I've eclipsed by what he doesn't know; a
'lly what he really knows is nothing CO..
pared with what he thinks he knol
We used to be told the earth and
1ng things thereon were created g.
hat years ago; and now we are assul
nm man has inhabited the earth for /
100000 years, that the reptiles hs
a., been doing business here for 80, 0e0
,,a years and that it took the newly evo
sen ing earth $4,000, 900 years to get Ii
LOT condition to support living creatul
low Lots of folks do not heliece eitl
statement, and no one knows which
true. 1t doesn't matter whether
,et- believe it or not. Some people "
Iro- cannot figure out what has been, r
his their regulations upon figuring i
what is to be. These know when
world is coming to an end by
- signs: but all their definite dates h;
failed-these have all been lost In
met dftion, subtraction and division. Alb
rter all God ever meant man should kn
in this world is how to live right,
mans lack of special interest in
nze has never been remarkable
ime ,,,,
go IL was William Penn who said: 90
- truest end of life is to know the
" that never endsi" What a tifffere
there is hafvvaep the mind xrfrirp,s ,