Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-30
THE MAN WHO TALKS

not believe this was imprudent enough
 to say that conscience is the name the orthodox give to their prejudices. Under a rigid examination most of us would do wen to say we do not knew. Conscience has been likened to a ledger in which all our offences have been written; good conscience IS said to be the same to the soul bad conscience to the hell of the 1iv- ing soul; the smile of tyranny is said to end where the rule of conscience begins; conscience is not director but a prompter to man to choose right instead of wrong; it is not silence but the voice of the soul; and the ultra minded have defined it as the palace of Christ, and as the oracle of God. It becomes apparent from this that the conscience may be many things as well as one thing; and that man does not agree because he believe that it is a good rather than an evil angel and to be prompted by it.
 What do you think of the declara- tion that "joy and sorrow are only of the mind" These conditions repre- sent how mortal matters to which we are related affect us. We are created sensitive to the actions Of those to
 whom we are allied as well as those
 WHO'LL Wc IONC. we dIS loO dPL tO SA Spect them to live up to the standard we have in mind for them instead of living up to our own moral or re- 1igious standard and letting them live up to theirs. We were made subject to joy and sorrow because they are they depress. We may by a proper attitude of mind make our joys more and our sorrows less. The poignancy
 of grief is intensified by our own seIdshness-why should what Is gain for a mate or dear friend what is gain to you and I except through our own unreasenableness; or why should harm coming to those we dislike cre- ate joy for us if these qualities were not the direct product of each indi- vidual mind? We have the power to conceal our grief or our joy; and he is said to be greatest who can conceal his joy.
 Mrs. James G. Blaine wrote in her letters: 'The limitation and unifor-
 nity of military post makes those who belong to it seem custom -made!"
 Verify, limitation and uniformity make many things seem custom made which should not, from the uniformed errand boy to the sectarianly garbed priests. It is an undeniable fact that
 limitation and uniformity are not pieasing although they may be ne- cessity, except for occasions of par ade. Twins look prettier attired alike than do trol1y-car conductors or priests. It is necessary only in ex- ceptiona1 cases to make our clothes symbolize our occupation or station in life. To look custom made doesn't compare with looking fit for anything we may undertake. To look custom made or band-boxy is not to look nat ural It is a fact we have to become our clothes before they seem perfect I-, 11, -kol 41 iv,ofk fko& o-,I formity is what makes Ian Indian look more like savage than he really is; and others seem more clannish than they really be.
 When we all learn to strive to live right day by day we shall then be liv- ing right year by year instead of making farce of new resolutions at the opening of each new year. The conscience which doesn't conceive of good resolutions but once in twelve months is too near to death to be ac- companied and supported by a de- dependable will power. The Savior was a this day man. He said: "This day shalt thou be with Me in Para dise;" and He taught us to say: Give us this day our daily bread" No- where is he caught waking up from mortal stupidity to Christian light and new resolutions at the beginning of New Year. Under blind guidance this sincere matter of becoming bet ter has become a concerted farce and is oftener referred to as a joke than taken seriously. Reform should be prompted by conviction not by the calendar, now not next week or next year. Resolve to be and to do better the moment you become conscious you are doing or going wrong.
 It is shocking that Billy Sunday has off fn !, truth; but he knows the truth doesn't depend upon it's garb for it's glow or impressive power. He says if the handshake was as warm and hearty in the church as it is in the saloon, the church thereby would be made democracy ought to prevail in the church as in no other place because Christ was the greatest exponent of true democracy the world ever saw and he taught it as a Christian vir- tue; and yet, Mr. Sunday cannot be charged with having told falsehood, when he says true democracy is best demonstrated in the saloon. We good people are too careful about who we speak too, and who we shake hands with; and we do not seem to know it until some one has the courage to stand up and tell us of 1t. No honest person can deny the indictment. What is the use of living as if there was to be a heavenly aristocracy when the
 Saviour taught plainly that nothing could be superior to the simple Chris tian.
 It is well most every persoh is dear to some one; and the recreant are
 dear in a double sense since they often excite our love and shock our sensibilities. It was the mariners wife who discovered her husbands foot had music in it as he came up the stair, which is much better than having in it the hesitancy of booze. There is no questioning the fact that every william on earth has been some ones darling. We can see by look ing at the panorama of life that in gratitude leads to bad habits and ends in every sort of degradation; but the golden chord of love is never broken. Solomon says: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." Love is the divine essence of the universe and all that in it Is. The mether-love seems to be akin to the love of God. "O'er the hills and far away beyond their utmost purple rim, beyond the night across the ! day." sings Mrs. Browning, through all the world love followed him." and ' H-s