Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l Perhaps 1t IS bad habit to think l nothing is perfect in this world, and l that only God IS perfect. It Is true he can do no imperfect work, so there must be more perfection on earth | than we are recognizing. It is not l helping ourselves to think that we are imperfect. and everyone else beside. weak should declare their strength" which Is an indication that the Al- mighty meant we should lend our force to power not to weakness-keep I ourselves positive instead of negative. I We need more perfection in the family and in all our business affairs, but we cannot improve conditions by thinking it to be impossible. One good leader makes things worse. It is wonderful how much the mind can contribute to | comfort to achievement and to so- cial and civic harmony.
 Did you ever meet the man who on occasion says: T should like to have $100 right now to help the poor!" He does not seem to realize that those who are fitted to do the most good with one hundred dollars are the ones who entered the field by doing the most they could do with 1 hundred cents. The doing of good, the giving of money for benevolent pur- poses is a habit rather than spasm. pinnacle of fame so high that she has never been overshadowed by the | givers even unto this day when they hand out dollars by the tens of mill lions. Yearning to do good and benev- olent things is the way Conceit has of | forming a bad habit. There is noth- ing to an empty wish of this sort. It doesn't amount to as much as giving L H. A.
 buy mittens with when mittens cost ten cents pair Do not swell up and tell the great thing you wish you could do, but humbly and secretly do the little helpful, comforting things right at hand.
 Many people who attempt to stand upon their dignity make as much fuss | about 1t as an amatuer does in his
 first attempt to walk a tight rope. The reason is that dignity was never
 designed to stand upon; and the true quality has never been decently imi-
 tated. While dignity is reserved and
 closely allied to modesty, being devoid of ponp or brazeness, the assump-
 tion of it never lacks the bumptious-
 ness of pride nor the glare of effron-
 tery. The counterfeit is too often mis-
 taken for the real thing because 1t
 f1aunts itself upon public notice, some-
 thing whihch quality is never guilty
 of. Most people are not aware that
 true dignity is manifest power cloaked
 with modest reserve. Bumptiousness never looks dignified to the intelligent
 whatever form of expression it may take, for it Is simply conceit on par
 ade.
 When we reach desire to employ a
 genalogist to fix the roots of our
 genealogical tree and to build up
 fine trunk and beautifully spreading branches we are in no mood to think
 of the possibility of there being | breakers ahead; but when the genaol-
 doubt if you will be pleased with it. Your great great grandfather was hanged for murder; your great-grand- father was imprisoned for robbery; feathered for beating his wife. That's not a very good record, Is it?" We do , not look upon the picture with the satisfaction and glee the fellow did
 reported by the Boston Transcript. ] He replied: That shows the family is
 getting better with each generation. t I'm an improvement on the entire bunch-never been in jail yet. Let me have those records-Pm proud of 'em.''
 He realized that he was an ancestor
 from which the family could take a new start-the root of a ne wfamily tree. He had them all where they l would have to look up to him in ad- miration. This fellow doesn't look l s of it!
 The great Sanitary engineers of this age all agree that disease can not be eliminated so long as there is
 poverty, clear revelation that we s must fight the erronious industrial systems of men and the bad habits of r individuals as we'll as the micrococcus or any other coccus. There is too
 much of this killing the fly and the
 mosquito and neglecting the muck holes and the fern1entitious filth where flies and mosquitoes become laden with germs. When Charles Wesley, a hundred and twenty-five years ago, , told his congration Cleanliness is next to Godliness." he could not have com-
 prehended the scope and power of this
 truth he uttered. All the doctors in
 the world cannot prevent man from becoming the victim of his own negli- ! egnce and slovenliness. Knowledge lifts g man above himself and action Is his salvation = physical and spiritual. , When man becomes intelligent enough 2 and unselfish enough to overcome
 poverty and disease the race will be
 on the direct highway to perpetual t peace.
 How many debts we owe, we who g owe no man a dollar. The debt to our
 parents and ancestors for their tenn
 perate habits and achievements which
 
 :, of promise and pointed us to appor- tunities we should not have recog- nized without them. How much we
 owe to the teachers who rendered effi-
 cient and sympathic aid, and the good friend who spoke the words which a awoke us to the consciousness that
 we are all children of the King and
 that this pretended superiority of an- g cestry rests upon vanity not upon g fact. Our obligations to those who have gone before are worthy recogni-
 tion and they cannot be paid for in e gold-they must be liquidated by ser = vice to others-we must do for oth- l CTS what others have done for us
 This generation must increase knowl- edge and inventions and opportunities k and everything which will add to the . comfort and happiness and hope o1 those who come after us.
 Some people get so religious they G venture to tell the Lord how he ought : to deal with their neighbors and gov- . ern the earth If sounds funny tr