Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS

When we get together how we en-
joy talking over the disagreeable or
vicious things of life. It seems strange
no company is distinguished for tell
ing all the good things known of or
heard about their neighbors. Moth
ing pleases some people more" says a.
keen observer, than to hear Disagree
aebl things about other people whom
they don't like" Our experience in lie
We all fly more or less to the stale
things of life rather than to the
sweet. How few of us ever attain
that Christian charity which keeps US
things we hear about others. Truth
moves like q tortoise, but scandal
seems to have the feetness of an an
teEope. Mr.. Toddle-de-Hoy may carry
goodies and consolation to his sick
neighbors without our knowing it,
but IL he Is seen to kiss a neighbours
wife we shall soon know 1t with the
intimation that probably it is nothing
new. The newspapers and the movies
evidence how we enjoy crookedness.
Straight conduct doesn't seem worthy
of mention.
once heard q revivaIist say: "a
man over forty can seldom be led to
the acceptance of truth" and to-day
someone says: "At forty a man knows
about half as much as he thought he
knew at twenty" Life is a period of
elimination as well as of achievement,
and it takes keen perception to cut
out the things we have been taught by
well meaning people that are not so.
A man Of forty has had experience
enough to prompt him to decline being
led into other mems heresies or con-
ceptions. He has reached the point
where he knows his eye-teeth are cut,
unless he has become confirmed in
some heresy or frightened into prac-
tees someone has convinced him are
right. This man of forty doesn't re-
ject the truth because he refuses to
accept what someone else declares is
truth. Accepting truth without being
yourself conscious it is truth is not
saving grace, but a bad habit.
Good advice that Is worth accept
ing: Always keep your temper for it
is worth more to you than to anyone
else Ones temper is the only thing
| when lost that harnesses a person the
| more. There is no very good excuse
for any kind of a temper, unless it
be temper ance in all things, which is
the concrete foundation for a we'll
rounded manhood. Most temper is
unadulterated ugliness, and the source
of every variety of retaliation and
| meanness. Did you ever hear of the
fellow born with quick temper, who
as a churchmember later in life has
enough kinds of righteous indigna-
ton" to shame the devil" He thinks
the Lord had made him over; but if
this were true he would be nothing
but a visible evidence of the Lords
helplessness. The religion that only
in anyway removing it's meanness does
not commend itself to anyone.
Many a man sits down and weeps
and expresses sorrow for his vices,
then dries his tears, rises up with
resolution and resumes his vices once
more. We call him slave of habit;
and why think you, do we not have
slaves to righteousness. "Oh,' you
say. Righteousness makes all men free
| 1t does, and makes all men brethen,
| but sectarianism does not. I fear we
have men who are slaves to sectarian-
| ism. But is man compelled to be a
| slave to either? If a mans sorrow is
| deep enough his horror of vice be-
| comes strong enough to repel him
| from it. If the consciousness of his
own responsibility is strong enough he
| will fight for the right, and the spirit
| of righteousness will soon come to his
! aid. The man who is resolved to do
his part gathers strength not weak
ness. Lots of men are not as sorry
as they seem to be, or think they be
| Desire for Godlikeness is born of sor-
1
effective; and weIl-born it creates the
conditions which repels from the hu-
man heart the poison of evil.
| Do not look back to the wrong
| steps of your past, but look forward
| all have enough behind US to worry
| us-enough to make us weep. 1t is a
| waste of energy to bemourn have
| beens-it is weakened concentration to
think of anything but now. Look
| forward, not Backward Look up, not
down." A glorified present will keep
| your past from looming up never mind
how error-blotched it is. If we did
not change minute by minute we
! should not grow better day by day
Everybody holds up select patches OF
/ their past as evidence of attainment
| everybody would like to bury more OF
less of it. Where the wild oats were
sown is the place where we stand and
blush for shame. There are no saints
among US. Should that old mandate
Let him without sin cast the first
stone" be heard in our presence we
should likely all fee. There is not
much chance for the I-am-holier-
than-ness around here. Do right now
and your future with be all right.
One way to get rid of disease, SAID
a drugless healer. is to stop talking
about 1t. 1t Is certainly the way t
create a new atmosphere for ones
self and to forget the little physica
Irregularities of life. Those who dc
not believe 1t would should try 1t
There are a great many things WI
don't believe because we do not ties
them. 1t was a Jewish rabbi WHIT
told an assembly of Protestant minis.
tiers many of whom had come to fee
that Christianity was a failure, tina
1t was not a failure because it ha(
never been tried. Any religion tina
is not practical is too thin to base
hope upon, and any theory which viii
not stand the test will go to pieces
because it is too weak to bear it's owl
weight. To be conscious Of our all
ments and weaknesses and to keel
talking about them shows the mind 4
being continuously disturbed instead o
being comforted and strengthened
This Of itself is evidence of diseas
we are not obliged to furnish.
What do you think OF the man o
the woman on the car who says
This seats engaged" when 1t isn't
: This is an everyday spectacle of tn
hog that beats the hog who holds tn
end seat. Excuse the style of the ex
preston but 1t seems necessary t
make the truth plain and penetrating
| You can scratch the hog in the pei
, and he will show signs of appreciation
| hilf this kind of a hing has t0 he force