Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-30

The fact might well seem hard one
 to millions of the sons of men, except
 for other facts that supplement and
 relative incapacity means an hour
 fraught with pain. To know that the
 next man works with a larger en-
 dowment of mental gifts than ones
 own amounts to a personal handicap.
 It takes heroism to try to match one's
 own pint cup against the gallon meas
 Ure of his neighbor.
 Failure is harder in ourselves
 Than 'tis to watch another fall.
 To know, however hard one delves,
 A thin soil is of no avail;
 To see another lightly do
 The task impossible to you.
 The dull student who sees the boy
 at the next desk solving those diff
 cult originals" easily, and getting his
 lessons without half trying, is chal- points in his career. The girl, cast in
 prosaic mold, who notes the inborn social grace the musical or artistic
 abilities of some companion, is put to
 an important test of character. To look upon the more brilliant achieve ments of others without bitterness, and to continue ones own steadfast en-
 deavors, this is success of a high or der.
 Let us rot, at any rate, rail against the ordained limitations of life. Re bellion here is, of all places, the most ! useless. When the famous dictum of
 Margaret Fuller that she accepted l the universe' was reported to Carlyle, l the grim old philosopher ejaculated: | Cad, she'd better!" Not otherwise is I it with all of us mortals. We must | accept ourselves as we are.
 5C 17 r05-xT I0a7a e-i1- l yer lining to the cloud, if cloud indeed | such facts as these can be called. In | the first place, limitation of power means limitation of responsibility. l The little dummy engine puffing about | the yard is not condemned if it cannot | swing along at 50 miles an hour the heavy vestibuled express.
 | Again, there should be noted well a fact as old as human history-nanely that the hare is always being out | pointed by the tortoise. The dispesi- | ton of nature to equalize things is SC i plain that he who runs may read
 Perseverance and industry are daily i winning on a thousand fields where i brilliancy fails. The world was not
 organized for the exclusive use ot geniuses, nor is it at present, being run by them. The work of life is done by very ordinary people.
 | FraCG4Cauyy iG mas appeared l1FDuSA | all the years, that the man with one talent, rather than the man with five ] has been most likely to dominate our l human affairs. He knows that, if he ] would win, he must summon every re- source to the struggle. He knows
 that a foot traveller like himself, must l start betjmes. He knows that he
 must keep everlastingly at 1t. l How often the world witnesses a
 strange paradox-the ungifted man yielding a scepter of power, while the l gifted man becomes mere lotus eater sitting in the sun! How often are the | words of George William Curtis
 proved true: Better an engine of one | cat-power running all the time, than one of hundred horsepower standing l id1ei" --- Here is the brightness in what l might be a somber situation. They I who are meagerly endowed have their own especial chance for victory. No l human lot is so humble that 1t may l not be filled with grace and glory. TTTE PARSON.