Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| You do not think your mind ,is your ] true environment. It, is what we tak6 Into ourselves which makes or nnA1s | us; not the persons. around sahout us
 If your thouxhts are deFressinE drugs will not cure you, nor the other fei- lows light -heartedness make you hap py. Nature requires that you must Ethink right to be right in arscore of different ways. Many persons have who might just as, well have thought 1 themselves Into good health and pros trerity.. Mind can be trained by our sefvss to bless or blast us, Just as ap- ttS--may work for our pleasure or ruin. We talk about mon being self made, but we appear to be unaware how many are self-ruineda by their thoughts their cups. The souls who awaken to their own powers and their own l responsibilities to self are the ones fwho thrive and rise to places of honor | land trust. Have . mind to rise and no l one can hold you down. rhis, continent was not only made tin aernAany, but is the endorsed sei1ft- ment of a misguided people: Not wrong but right has been done te Belgium" Had the same thing been done to Germany it would seem to the Germans to be as defenseless aa
 
 rest. of the world Selfishness makes man binder than love ever can. and 1t makes him meaner* than the most ferocious beasts" To defend hearth md home, church and country against invading hosts whose purpose is simp- ly power and pelf. is the neblesty sacri-> flee any man can make, ana no na- ton can put q blight upon the worth or honor of it. Some one has well said concerning world conditions to- day: Man is not a fighting animal; he is fighting because he is not an anil mal." It is obvious that we are ap-
 preaching the end of the strife not because Right is weakening but because
 the forces of wickedness are webbing and crying for a peace which would condone perfidy and crime and blind
 able will be a peace that will endure
 because founded upon divine princi-
 pies.
 has discovered that "a policeman IS
 the superlative of all that is good!"
 We all sense that a policeman can get
 more generous abuse for doing his
 He % is despised by the criminal class
 and not fully appreciated by any other
 class. When he accepts his perils and
 goes about his business like a man he cannot tell what is coming to him.
 When he isn't being berated for doing
 his duty by violators of the law, he is
 being menaced by another class who would suppress him in spite of the law. No one in the community knows how the lower world and the higher world interlace, or where, as he does. He has traced them where hypocrites dwell with the saints and where the most vi11ainous dwell together. White necktied wickedness forces him to keep his mouth shut: and he is not per naitted to penetrate municipal dark i ness with impunity. He is best when I he is most discreet. not when he is most alive to duty
 Perhaps you have not realized that a new commandment is in the mouths Hit hard! And keep hitting!" This !! coesn't sound much like the greater ] commandment we were taught in Sunz ] day school: Love the Lord thy God | ttyself. The. divine things we learn ] in youth are completely knocked out l by the exigencies of manhood or the duties of citizenship. A retired mer-'l his success because to be con1mercially 1 great he was compelled to forget the 1 honesty and honor taught him at his | mothers knee when a boy. Today 1 in the name of Almighty God we are to use force instead of pray ers and in the name of five million dead and twice as many more ruined A ting back-hitting hard-and in hitting continuously: But he who prays be- lfevfng still has an unQuenchable faith ard an undyins hope.
 K does no harm to think that the sunshine of heav en may be just kfndli- ness. Isn't it strange so many things which are best and eternal do not cost anything? And isn't it stranger still that man does not make more of some thing which the deaf. dumb and blind can understand, and which overcomes the strongest prejudices? Unexpected blessing. and through it in No Mans Land in Europe fierce enemies are made the closest comrades the sheer est friends. The gospel of kindliness does not need fine words or fine ffg- ares of speech; it needs not the tongue as a herald, orly the heart as a prompter. Like all other good things. t is often counterfeited from selfish motives. and this is one of the endur- ng evidences of it's worth. The wholS harvest of sweet remembrances since he world began may be safely charged ID to 1t. It lends strength to the ,hurch and agreeability to business. needs, and it yields it's best fruits when We manifest it to others.
 Man talks . great deal about justice, put it is something he wants little of md something he has little capacity 5or and something the ablest never at aims. The justice of man hinges upon 'elishness. not upon blindness to ev- ,rything but the cause-cold impartial ty. The world is calling for justice nore unanimously and earnestly than .ver before in its history. A great English statesman declares: Our aim g that the kind of justice which Ger many has meted out to Belgium shall D future. be impossible upon this plan t." Nothing else he says matters in with that! Belgium's of- ense is in being small and weak and ,y compulsion a neutral or buffer tate. How a nation may stray from rue justice is shown when invasion md rap.ne and murder and the de- truction of 10000 villages and the ere Ltion of a hundred thousand orphans, md the making of civilized country nto a desert waste can be regarded as } just retribution instead of a diaboli- al offeuse. There can be no Justice