Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-23

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 between them when there is really nothing to rend their brotherhood or fellowship but these thoughts which blossom in the selfish mind and of which we ought all to be. ashamed. Billy Sunday, like the Saviour, has a creed above human folly which the highbrow and the lowbrow' must alike come to. To Billy Sunday men and women must become the sons and daughters of God or they are un- worthy of their Father in Heaven. The highbrows and the 1owbrows as such have no claim for recognition in Heaven or in Hell.
 Some one affirms: "A good motive is always of more value to the doer than the deed" It is not what we do, but our why or way of doing it that tells. We can be patient with the irritable and gentle with the mis- erable, and kind to the poor and gen. erous to the unfortunate and realize through a closer relation what Chris tian brotherhood really is. It is said mans soul contracts as his purse ex- pands;" and his righteous vision strengthens as he through gentle Christian ministries contributes to the needs of his less fortunate fellow man. In the whole plan of life man is so closely related to man that they cannot ignore the interests of one an ll Forgiveness, kindness and gentleness are the developers of spirituality; and those who practice these virtues most
 resemble the Great Master in power and practice. Selfish giving carries | little with it except disappointment. | 'The noblest motive is the public good" and the motive which bears good fruit is that which tells for the
 well-being and happiness of others.
 
 l mountain high this winter if we do | not know how high they have scared l before. They may have been dearer | in New England before but not in the | memory of the present generation. l There was a time when potatoes in
 Montana sold for 55 cents pound which means in some states over $27 l a bushel and in other states over $30. l Clifton Johnson in American High
 ways and Byways tells us that the
 first field of potatoes and onions
 grown in Montana brought $16,000 | and of time in Dakota when good
 English hay sold for $14 a hundred I weight or $2S0 for a short ton This 1 is not the banner year of the Ameri-
 can hen for eggs sold for $1.25 a
 dozen in Louisiana 53 years ago.. So
 1t is clear that what is in the way of
 high prices and what might be are still very far apart.
 Everything may come to the man | who waits, but it is rather slow com | ing. The man who has things when | he wants them without waiting is the
 man who hustles. Life calls for | strenuous endeavor as well as for pa l tience. The patient waiter may be no , loser, but he doesn't see things con- ing his way as the hustler does. The 1 patience that is the key of content is | a good thing to lose. There are as l 1eo oToNT 1airN Nio- ~n | are of mosquitoes and some of" them bite worse. Milton says: "They also | serve who only stand and wait" but | they don't count for much in raising a building or holding up an enemy | Patience is popular for commenda-
 tion to the irritable by people who are
 no more patient than they be-it is
 akin to hope and salvation when you are on the perilous end of a lifeline. | Time waits for nos man and no man 1 should wait for time unless he has too. | We are all of us more or less | children of misfortune-vfctins of small calamities if not of large ones l The misfortune which befalls any of us is really of less consequence than
 the way in which we take it. A young fellow out west who was the victim of railroad accident in boy hood is working his way through col 1 lege and making his own wooden legs 1 We once knew a lad with one leg who could skate better and cut more
 graceful pigeon-wings upon the ice than most boys who had two. Moth ing can happen to some people that will make them think they are down and out and must confess they are done for. The first thing a man of grit does after he has been knocked down is to get up again; and the man | who has been incapacitated in one way develops talen or skill in another | If we are heirs to anything it is to
 more than one grip upon life; and misfortune cannot deprive us of them. | Misery and man are the Siamese times
 of life; but by his genius man has often out-generaled misery.
 Many man and woman has de-
 plored the fact the gift of gab was
 not bestowed upon them, when it may
 have been the greatest blessing of
 their lives to be short of words. Half
 of the people who have the gift abuse it; and most of those who have &C., quired the habit talk too much. The
 record made by those who talk too
 much is that they think too little. It
 has been said that there was once a lady who talked so necessarily that
 she couldn't give an echo fair play.
 It was Sydney Smith s who wrote
 There is the same difference between the tongues of men as between the
 hour and the minute hands of clock lone goes ten times as fast and the
 other signifies ten times as much" A gift of gab is curse to any one who
 doesn't know what to do with it. Man
 has not often been blamed for say
 ing too little. Great takers are not great doers. Those who are lavish in
 words are usually niggardly in deed.
 Every mans bottom dollar is not
 the foundation of even a competence. not to mention fortune It is safe
 to presume from the fact that men so
 freely bet their bottom dollar that
 most men have one; but the facility
 with which a great many men keep in debt indicates that some men are such bottomless pits of folly that no