Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-01
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

l HE MAN WHO TALKS
 We have lots of fun in life thinking
 we have turned over a new leaf.
 have turned over a good many new
 leaves and most of them for obvious
 reasons turned me down. The new
 leaf idea never sprung from the req
 tree of reform. for the true spirit o1
 reform is now and never tomorrow, oi
 the first of January. These last named
 are fads. Conviction is instantaneous
 and it doesn't wait for New Years
 Or an opportune time to make a new
 start. Anything worth correcting calls for immediate action, and for earnest
 effort. One resolution at as time is
 about all one was designed to tackle
 and when he writes a list to honor The good resolutions idea smacks more of performance than of convic- tion. Think Of getting ready to cry: Lord have mercy upon my soul! upon man like a wireless message and the action to be true must be in- stantaneous.
 Too many of us have "the don't want t-to's'' so continuously that most everything we undertake is uphill work, and we are such poor observers that we do not know why. We have rot become aware of the fact that "No task burdens a willing mind" Un- willingness is at the bottom of most peoples woes; and the instigator of most of the shirking there is in the world. Some people who have a knack of influencing others to do all truistic work often regard them selves of more account than the work C re Nf of Dull because it is easier. Some peo- pie advocate beneficent deeds because of the emolument or graft there may be in it for them. Rank sell fshness masquerades not only as a patriot, but sometimes as sister of mercy. It takes us long to realize the motive is of more consequence than the deed.
 Have you ever asked yourself what kind of a future hope you have? I think most of the future hopes are forlorn hopes to the hop CTS, who fail to find it out because they dare not apply the acid test to get real value from your inquiries get the habit of asking yourself questions and then finding the answers. All that is good has to be attained, all re- ligions teach. We have to be and do
 
 Being and doing is of more account than singing and praying. The most important word the Saviour ever ut tered was Believing" Believing in God? Yes; and believing in yourself and your fellow man, or you cannot believe in God: There is no answer to prayer unless you pray believing there is no faith where there is no belief. neither can there be hope, or 
 A great many people become aged before they realize that you cannot eat your, cake and have "it,' hence we witness this moving picture habit among people in debt about who the tradesmen scold. They will get trust ed for the necessaries of life, and pay cash for the things they could go without. Isn't this just as true of the man who drinks. or any person who indulges in excessive extsavagance. But surely no one can go without some entertainment, for to do so would be to go without knowledge. or to lose many of the joy-thrifls of life. Pleasure and knowledge are just as rake or meat. and it is not well for Us to have too much of either. Sue sess, as well as character, always needs a well defined horizon line. It sight, or in overhead. but it takes cau- ion and judgment to keep well bal lnced and to render unto Caeser that which is Caeser's. as well as unto GCd hat which is Gods.
 Lord Rhondda tells the English ,eople: "The man who seeks to profit " the necessities of his country at his hour of peril is nothing short of a black maiier;" and the chairman of he food committee makes bold to say: The feeling of resentment and indig- lation against the government for al owing prices to reach their present candalous proportions. and for fail ng to take control over the supplies f essential foodstuffs, is strong and and is growing. I say de- fberately, and with a full sense of re- that unless immediate l measures are taken to ensure supplies f food for the people at reasonable l nent will result in a demand for peace t any price so clamOrous that no l overnment will be able to resist it." ,here is not a country in this world ! ced by men who make money their 1 cd and place it above honor or pa | riotism. The classes greedy for gain l I every country who Sopress labor, 1 rho control traffic and practice extor- ] ion upon the whole people, do not | sans in public issues. unless the is | ues directly or indirectly favorably 1 fleet them. They conspire to fleece | he people and when they have "raked 1 if" ten millions laugh at the law ,hich fines them $5.000 apiece These re the tyrants the people of all na- ons should be freed from.
 When you think age, or circum- tance, is pressing down upon you tNe ondition is not natural. Human na- Ire takes to cheerfulness and at it's est the trend is toward contentment. t this point of peril we all need a igorous thought of resentment. Good ense should command us 60 shake
 off" by concentra ting the mind up- n our work. or our pleasures, or bet 1T thought. It is up to us to cast out lese invaders of the human mind hich promote no good thing, but pes 1T us from day to day. There are ts of bad habits of thought which re nearly. if not quite, as wicked as urder. To get the best out of life nd to possess the truth which will ake us free. we must become mas ITS of our minds. Put depressing fought down with the thought that erna1 life cannot be checked-the pod is the magnet which is drawing ar nigh to the best in earth and