Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

AG4G N4kA1N Wk1O 4FAAx&S this world is full of trouble, for that is a sign that you are making @ large part of it yourself. The world is not full of trouble to a sane and sober person. Our relation to others has everything to do with our view of the world. The habit of complaining and the habit of whining and the habit Of willfulness are the trinity of trouble. To become dissatisfied with your lot and then to let it prey upon your mind is to begin to paint your world black, and 1t doesn't take much of an artist to knock all the sunshine out of the heart, or out of the home. If you ex- pect things to go as you want them to go you are meeting with constant dls- appointment, and constant disappoint- ment leads straight to mind-mlsery, or chronic unhappiness. If you do not think you are master of your fate you haven't thought earnestly enough yet. Make your world brighter and better and you will know you are captain or your soull
 What Is 1t that marks the rise of a successful person in any of the walks of life? Just being equal to the occasion, able intelligently or intut- lively for any emergency. The pr1n- cipal equipment is self-reliance. One must not only feel that they are equal
 to an emergency, but they must shut out dfstrust. Lack of faith in ones self is perilous defect. Undermin- ing thoughts, like little doubts, must not be entertained. We should let | nothing in us get negative to success, but we should be positive for it heart
 and soul IT we are going to be equal | to anything we must feel equal to it, | and act with confidence. To falter is | to ourselves to become conscious of
 our own tneficiency. and to be guilty | of hindering our own success. Sue
 cess to the climber often comes be-
 cause he looked up and stoltdly re- fused to look down.
 | There Is no such thing as getting | something for nothing in the religious
 or the commercial life. Too many are | waiting for the Lord to pass around
 the loaves and fishes who are not
 to be g. friend to enjoy the blessings
 of friendship; we must love to be | loved; to know the delights of knowl-
 edge we must acquire knowledge; to
 realize what mercy is we must be | merCiful; we must work for a good ap- petite; we must have a conception o1
 harmony and taste to enjoy music and beauty. We cannot get broad views with a narrow mind, we cannot Ienjoy spiritual blessings unless we cul- tivate conditions which invite them The soul has to be receptive to spirit ual blessings. Love and harmony
 form the beauty of heavenly blessings
 and hate and discord shuts them out
 Salvation does not represent a chance
 but 1t encompasses an earnest pur-
 pose.
 With more emphasis than usual WI
 can say: "Good-by, February!" Like
 January preceding it, it doubles:
 beats the record. In recorded timt
 January was never before so mild il
 New England; and in recorded tiInt this February compassing the who'll
 of winter by its snowfall and the in
 tensity of the cold, has put the spina
 chord into the winter of 1916, whicl
 by precedent it was it's duty to break
 Because there has never been in re
 corded time @ year with two month
 just like these to inaugurate it, is nt ? proof that there never was year jus like 1t. It is fair to presume there ar } no duplicates in years, and yet evi dence is plenty that there have beel , in New England icy years without
 green thing, and balmy years withoU frost or ice or snow. The cycle of tn years encompasses all temperature 7 and all terrestrial phenomena doubtles regardless of latitude or longitude. 3 Are you mindful of the fact that yo are free agent, and do you appreciat
 what the freedom is which Is your! f by inheritance. Every person in If z is a free chooser, and what is chose makes or mars the individuals life. T
 be free chooser is to be given a plac of great responsibility; and if W 3 choose wisely we become more an 2 more conscious of our nearness to Go g and of His nearness to us-Of omnip otent power transmitted from Fathe to child. There are no special fav - orites, but every human soul has a D equal chance in grasping the goo
 things of life, and there is nothin s more worth grasping than the goo 3 thought which keeps the mind pun h and the spiritual sight clear. It isn = safe to fool with the wasps of thougi T which sting and paralyze the nerves ! | wisdom. All the things which sweete Il life are ours for the taking, hence wh $ should we seize the things which COT O fuse US and embitter life?
 u You doubtless have discovered youl 5 self as the slave of a habit; and pel o haps you have found that you we1 = like a fly well bound in a spiders we = when you resolved to master the hab o rather than to yield to it. The m, if ment you attempt to overcome it u o battle is on and you are surprised l . the power of resistance which hah D. sets up. Your will is not what yC II thought it was, you are overcome e the contest again and again, and if yC = acknowledge habit as your mast
 your freedom is lost, you are Q victi
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