Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-17
Sunday Morning Talk: ::
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 IM "GROuMD ,SCHooL.''


 1 When a young: Dagns goes in for aviation, we. ;: imm ediateIy conjure up visions of swift flight il a huge bat clouds. Now we ,berold. our. young aviator dealing Summary destruction to Huns far behind their own lines, now sailing raajestieaIfy over snow capped Alps; a veritab1e t'tAee"% of the picturesque and giorious branch of the serTiceTti1at. Of the flying corps.
 As a matter of fact, your povice is destined to spend many weeks and months cooling his heels in barracxs at .Mineola, or some other training camp For months, he will not hold 2 wheel or start a meter -.s-L Unless. he all. Perhaps lie may stand on tfptoe and gaze into the4 pilots cabin of one of the practise machines. We must think of him.. not oTn dizzy, fightss but perforni1ig pEh camp '. chores. @ stndyGng i tures, tachonetsrs. Eliminates, ,.etc.- and wondering whsstEers he will eyer
 In that he. is much ike the. rest. of school" trying. fo's, master. a.. few parliamentary lessons sahdS wondering, sometimes, Nwhether,S we shall ever be it to s graagafe aa to 5aSEaythigg h9lsher 99; T a process of sducation.sts New tasks are continually being set, each one, a little harder than It's predeeesser. 5e1 With the Wrfter Eesissastes eGRas o ss find fin out ti the he feason s Of things. i ag .1
 In the school of life we are ex- psst1d fsr tes t9 learn aFa s ta Dea ao as admonishes the prophet: That is the biggest lesson ever set before mortals. The. finest of the fine arts is the art of right living. No one becomes a master of it, save through efforts and practise ~ g-s,ss;
 Think over the Christian virtues. How many of; them are easy forgmen How many, on the other hand. are discipline! Take. trnthfulnasss for sez- T ample. It is rot jnstinctive for. most of us to speak and act the. truth Children have riotous ina ginations; us are children of larger growth.esWe must learn to be truthful with. cony scious effort.z-. .s-ss.sss sy,Fs.s.g r,s ss7 2, There is the virtue @sef generosity. It is not a native impulss With sneEt givers in the world have comics sed that it was hard for them. at first to part with their. money They had to learn to be ganerousss 7;s-t Ss.ssts.es E 2
 So 1t is with embodiment Only through much resolutsi discipline of his thought can. one grasp .sthe req sona bleness of Hfess dispensations. Paul counted this as a lesson that he had mastered. "I have 1earnedr. he said. "in whatsoever state I am there- with to be content."" 5~s,,
 The lessons of the ground ,schooI" go on till pupils are xprepared, for what is higher. There are, doubtless, some lessons we can leaFn, on the earth that never could be taught in the air. We must master the princi- pies of flight before we mount up with wings as eagles. By and by, the bell will ring and school will be over The end Of school days - is called Comm encement." Nowhere, surely, is the term more applicable tnan to that hour when this earthly discipline is over altogether. Death is graduation, and graduation is not the end of experience, but the beginning of it. Cornmencement day is the pupils Introduction to life. Here. we 'knoW fn part and we prophesystin part; < but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is fin part sshaH be done away. Now. we see through q glass darkly, but then, face to- face Now we know in part, hut then shall we know even as we are known"
 THEE PARSoN.