Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

anxious parent desires the child shall be more than he was. shall accom- l plish more than he was able to-. solve and build into manhood and woman I hood, what they were not competent l to. The highest honor is not al- ways justly awarded in this world. | Too much goes to crude valor and too Man may need money and all that it will buy, but he needs that which money cannot buy much more. We all should remember 1t is not so much | 1t is to be an ancestor. What honor I is it to be as others were. or to be a
 weed in the tail of the ancestral
 kite. Love and freedom and n, holiv cannot buy. and all are poor who do not in a measure possess and be possessed of them. The poorest way
 to honor parents is to be followers in stead of leaders,
 The people who hear the call of nature and who go forth to feel the atmosphere of spring in the air, and sparrows sing the gladness of spring into their hearts. get more of joy out of life than half the world knows.
 They do not mind the wind, for the
 themselves, as well as the white scudding clouds beneath cobalt blue
 skies are pieasurable to them The
 purple haze in the offing, the yellow
 ing willows, the little ice-free ponds
 glis.ening in the sunshine like jewels
 on the bosom of mother nature, the
 loosed brooks dancing over the stones
 and rippHns a song of freedom, the
 symphony of the trees in response to
 the passing breezes, all quicken the
 pulse of life in them, because life Is
 akin to life. and while we write of
 high life. and low life. we find all life Author of Life can know it's real purpose and power. There are those
 who claim the spirit of man is akin 10 the spirit of every animated thing. even including the earth itself.
 Have you ever asked your soul what fife eternal means to you? It can not mean anything you are not fit for, but it must mean harmonious ac
 ton prompted by love and fruitful of happiness There is going to be beau tiful music and glad songs in heaven: but that isn't all there is going to be. All souls were not designed to fill places in the heavenly choir any more than all the stars in the heavens were created to shine with equal glory To
 make this world inviting home to mortals silence. the silence Of beauty, was decFeed. as we'll as the loving action which has the power to make us true brethen and the sons of God. Mar is builder as well as a singer, and he may have hand in the con struction of mansions above. It seems to be true that those who know most i've most and enjoy most and do most here below, and this should be con sidered as a revelation of the course of man in the more abundant life. Love to the Lord is half our duty love to our neighbor constitutes the other half of it; and by this dual re- lation may be produced the greatest spiritual power and joy in this world. Why doesn't this foreshadow some thing to base an enduring hope upon
 "Conseienees differ in different in dividuals," observed Lincoln. This is not strange since what we have been taught, what we have read and what we have concluded lays the foundation for and fixes the character of our con sciences. There is a conscience which but this is very far from being an every day conscience. People in all ages even to the present day revenge fully and conscientiously burn offend CTS at the stake In literature con- science has been beautifully poetized as mans most faithful friend" and as "a continual Christmas" as "the source of serenity and "the founda- tion of joy I haven't found this out yet, and I question whether you have It is easier to rhapsodize than it is to honor good thoughts. It does not matter what others think of conscience if conscience possesses us. As a mon itor conscience challenges man for his good and he throws it down as if it were an enemy. The most difficult men to manage" said Napoleon, "are those whose intentions are honest, but whose conscienees are bewftched." And do you know these are altogether too numerous.
 No scientist will attempt to deny that man is fearfully and wonderfully fln e,e-srx s,- l-;r life in the egg saw no difference in the structure of the cells which form ed the brain and those which formed any other organ; but the living crea- ture shows there is a difference. Some preachers refer to men as human ami mals, and others argue with scriptural endorsement that man became a living soul when God hreethed into his nos trils; but do not feel sure that when God glorihed man by designing him after his own image that he was not then made a living soul. There is nothing more helpless when born into the world than an infant child. and every mother knows when her child looks up at her and smiles that it has been baptized of the spirit. for it is responding to love and is in Loves light. Oh, these wonderful things we call common-this awakening to love and lSinship and the blessings and bounty and beauty of Gods wonder full world When is a human soul
 
 when the spirit makes it realize TGd respond to the earthly love of the mother which is closely rela ted to the divine love of the Creator? Perhaps you can tell.
 It was Thomas Jefferson who left on record the opinion that "The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life" He did not mean by this they were students, or felt the need of education. but that they spent their whole lives without getting away from the primaries of knowledge. They do not measure up to the average stand i ard of manhood for knowledge of self or knowledge of books. Attention and | thought are necessary for attainments | in any direction. and it takes years of time before the human mind can real 1 ly sense the pleasures of knowledge, l which are various and a full reeom- 1 pense for all the time and application | they cost. Few people come to real | ;ze thoughts are things-that thought 1 rules the world. Thought not only l overcomes violence without striking a | blow, but 1t always has accomplished l