Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS

THE MAN WHO TALKS
 A Chinese proverb says: He bought a dried fish to save its life" Why is this sentence worth preserving for 2000 years7 Because it shows that doing good works without judgment is not new thing. This is on a par with sending woo1en clothes to the heathen in the tropics. or blue-Hame no fuel to run 1t with. There is e good thought followed by action in the buying of e dried fish to save its life, although it is blind endeavor. Sending from Christian nation to the heather missionaries on one ship and New England rum on another Is in keeping with buying dried fish to save its hfe-ru1n pickles p1ety but never promotes it. Those old Chinese scholars were endowed with a keen to turn absurdities into useful prov erbs. I shouldn't wonder if we had all of uS at some time in our lives bought @ dried fish to save its life attended to our good works too late.
 We laugh when some Christian scientest speaks to us of the errors of
 
 children of God abiding in his love. Have you ever asked yourself what there is in this to laugh at2 "Oh, it sounds so ridiculous!" you say. Has 1t never occurred to you that one of mans greatest faults manifests itself by ridiculing new and practical things. There is no evil without the evil-doer. Murder requires murderer; theft thief; arson a fre-bug; profanity, a swearer; blasphemy, a blasphemer when man through evil thought brings these conditions into existence. They could not exist without the evil thought and wicked action. We haven't got to argue this for 1t is self evident. The Christian scientists did mind habit, but they brought 1t out into the light anew. We do not have to be a Christian scientist to see it. l am not one, but I feel like thanking them for their good work.
 Too many people have a very in definite idea of what faith really is. They have learned that faith is the evidence of the things unseen,' but this does not mean one should believe any old thing a religious crank, or any other crank, may tell them about to brace up their hopes or excite their fears. Faith and works are the Siam ese twins of the mind. The inventor has faith in things unseen when he tackles a new mechanical problem. When Thomas A. Edison could no longer get carbolic acid from the old source it was faith in the evil dence of things unseen which prompt ed him to work for and produce a new supply. Every good thing we have faith in is an inspiration to work. If our faith does not make us feel its prOpelling power it is too weak for rec ognition. If you think faith is a di- vine rope which attaches you to the kingdom of heaven, swim for the gold en shore or you will never get there.
 There are children who are brought up to like to help as well as to like to play. They have mothers who know how to awaken their pride and to make them feel they are of some ac- count in the family-a spoke in the wheel of dOmesticity. Children like to feel that they are of some account just as well as grown folks, and it is this spirit cultivated among the Boy Scouts and other character developing organ izatiOns which promises to give to the world more COnSiderate, active and useful citizens. Cooperation in the home, the school, the church which in cludes the children lightens the bur- dens and often puts joys in place of problems. The age of understanding and judgement in little things is reached by children before they are six years of age. When a child begins to ask for help to do things the day
 has dawned when they may be train ed to be helpful. The children get be- yond control because their capacity for helpfulness is underestimated.
 What is it, think you, to be fit from a physical viewpoint. If you cannot expose yourself to a draught of air without cratfinC o thrno+ o lame neck, or a cold in the head, you are abnormal-a misfit to the weather, and a menace to the health of your fellowmen. It is no longer the elements but living creatures who promote dis ease and epidemics. Instead of being afraid of the wind we should be afraid of the other fellow. We may improve
 our health by walking ten miles, or disconcert it by sitting besiding a coughing, eye-Watering, nose dripping passenger in any kind of a warm ve- hicle. It is being preached today that the one sure method of prevent ing epidemics is to intern the afflicted at once. If you are not well you are
 not fit to be mixing in company, or to l be roaming about crowded streets Infected people should be kept under | supervision until they are well.
 This is a truism: 'If you do not fall | into love you cannot fall out!" But too Ildny pSOplo Tn LneS6 OayS, as the | divorce courts give evidence, fall into 1 love for the purpose of falling out
 True love is deep, but everyday love seems to be a thin veneering of hap | piness. When it comes to love few l look before they leap. When poverty l knocks at the door true love doesn't | jump out of the window, but the other kind immediately looks for better | society. If love coming home drunk
 prompted poverty to knock at the door | true love is foolish to take in wash 1 ings and stay. The measure of love | should be square measure-sobriety | and drunkenness can never make good 1 comrades. Whats the use of falling | into love anyway? Why not walk ir | for the best there Is, and then abide ir i harmony which is the condition which l invites happiness to come fitting in tc stay.
 A great many poor relations are Hv- | ing in hopes, and a great many rich
 relatives are living in fear-that the poor relations will get their money
 Rich relations too often scheme tc | blast the hopes of their poor relations 1 but it has often been proved that the l wisest and most humane thing they | could have done would have been tC have let the laws governing hereditary ] take their course. A man has a right