Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Some one has remarked that too
many people who battle every day do
not wash their dispositions once a
year. The dirty disposition is too
often a blight upon persons OF clean
ly habits. We may well imagine that
most dispositions would be markedly
improved by repeated washing. In
dellible colors are unnecessary TOR
dispositions-high colors and low tones
should be washed out. Amiaole neu-
tralizationS would be of advantage TO
most dispositions. We may s1nherlt
our disposition, but it is within our
power to improve or mar 1t. We may
put sweetness or acid into 1t; and II
| is possible to standardize it upon true
Christian ideas of cleanliness and
purity. 1t would be of real advantage
| to wash our dispositions once week
at least. A dirty disposition is one of
the rankest things in life.
The man who longs for tomorrc- -
| usually the man who is doing nothing
! today: and he isn't sure that he will
| be doing more tomorrow. The man
| of purpose has his mind centered up
| on NOW. The day does not seem to
be long enough for him-he has no
| time to think of tomorrow. He doesn't
see next by days but by minutes, with
/ the minutes closer connected than they
| are usually connected in d uarbers
| shop. Time is not money to the man
| who wastes tit is misery. No one
| has ever been able to tell yet which is
most wearying, the lack of work or
| the press of it. There is a strain to
| idIeness which is far from being pleas
ant, while stress of industry is remun-
erative-its rewards are pleasurable.
| Don't dream of days of leisure unless
it is leisure alternating with occupa-
ton, for it is a deception. Live in
tensely in the present and let the fu-
ture take care of itself.
We were asked recently by a
| youngster which was preferable wis
| dom without money, or money without
wisdom We banked on wisdom, be-
cause a wise man can get on without
| money, but a man without wisdom
| cannot get far with money. They go
we'll together; and there is no necessi-
ty for considering them separately,
1t has been said: 1.-The wisdom of one
generation is the folly of the next; "
and that money is the root of all
evil" It is not pleasant to be over
| loaded with either; and they are not
a menace to the average man. The
man of knowledge is the man who can
turn UP an honest penny where iS-
norance would starve to death
knowledge is capable of identifying
material things and setting value
upon them. 1t is the fOrerunner Of
every accomplishment, the designer OF
every good thing. 1t may be turned
into money, but ignorance cannot.
If you speak of the responsibilities Of
, life to some people they laugh, and
, what a hollow and vacuous laugh i
is to those conscious that no human
soul can escape the burden of life, bu
! that the more men idle the heavier
will be their burdens. If you have no
challenged yourself upon what you ART
! y ~ ChnTII6
yourself upon what you are doing Il
yourself, or indirectly doing TO others
God eIuips US to aspire, to know anC
, to do, and then He expects us to ge
busy for ourselves, and if we ar
moved to honour the divine preCept
we shall be getting busy for Him. H
, has made it so that we are inseparabl
if we work Alright. He abides witt
us and we abide with Him. He said
Follow mel" Take up thy bed AM
t | walk" and looking upon innocen
childhood said: "Of such is the king
> dom of Heaven" He didn't ask an
e one to profess anything, but to d
I something: Believe on me'-"Hav
= faith in God" Is it not given us t
see that at last the greatest burde
will be empty hands.
s What do we novel readers expect t
4 | find in them? A good novel was writ
ten for a purpose and must presen
j a picture real lHG-CnarCaIeGS SOOC
q bad and indiferent-and we shall fin
= therein truth-truth in all its beaut
= and truth in all its hideoCsness S
: | well contrasted that there is no lur
I toward immortality. We are not
n afraid of evil life in books, for whe
o you come to think of it is one of tn
:, common things in real life, and
, thing we cannot dodge a knowledge o
n If it is not pleasing it is instructiv
e 1t is only dangerous to those it fas
V cinates, and it can only corrupt thos
> who trend that way All the excesse
. of life are vicious, hence it is a dut
n impressed upon all of US not to eS
r. coed the limit in any direction. 1t
- accuracy of description and contra!
- that makes novels great and effectiT
: in purpose. Uncle Toms Cabin we
e illustrates the point.
The younqster who asks you "wf
the sky doesn't drop down is putin
W a test question. He knows the SIX
+ cannot fall down because there is r
: sky there, and never was. This noU
was supposed in the long ago to hay
~ been the name of a substantial owe,
10 head ceiling above which God and II
Is angels dweN and minstered unto mel
10 but now it only signifies an appea'
ance, or the zone of the clouds. "
10 are no longer taught this world is Il
ID Lords material masterpiece, but tn
re- it is one of the little worlds amor
10 millions in the, universe: and next
~ the smallest world in the suns sy
tenn. The imaginary canopy whi'
made the word sky necessary HI
passed away, but the word abides
ne answer another purpose and cannot
n spared. We still talk of the stars
the sky when we know that they a
in space, and some of them are
, distant that a row of twenty figures
not enough to express the distance.
We never think there is a country
all the world that Will Carleton
is song cover the Hills to the Poo
is house" will not fit, but Sweden has
abundance of hills but no poorhoust
In the place of poorhouses Swed
he has a system-a system which kee
re- its inhabitants independent and SCI
No respecting. They do not have a
homes for the aged, but a syste
which is sunshine to all in the d
cline of life. They have an insuran
II system Of one-paynent which dc
he this work. When each child is DO
i'm the parents deposit with the old a
pension bureau the equivalent of
SO or SIS, occasionally a larger
,st smaller sum. This one deposit is
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