Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 l than to wear clothes cut out with a 1 handsaw by a cross-eyed tailor that l are not paid for to be in style. He l realizes that a man may as well go to | debt as long as he lives. All habits I of economy are good habits however l much they may be douted by the 1 'generous' or the unthrifty. The 1 ford to do is not acting wisely what | ever his pretext for having done so. Prudence is the handmaid of ec mo- my, and it has been defined as con and deccncy" The prudent indulge | in no exceSses of speech or action; and yet excessive prudence has been labelled as a. straight manifestation of' fear debt has hit the trail Of Hard Luck and will not be long in coming to a full realization of his folly,
 How little spiritual light is enjoyed by those who profess to have been ao-
 cepted by the Saviour and to have
 Him for friend. It always shocks
 me to hear a religious person smil-
 dead" It seems to me as thougiI such
 Christian was spiritually dead al-
 ready, and did not know it. They
 seem to have nourished the idea that
 mystery and spirituality are so in
 volved that there is excuse for their
 rampant doubt, when mystery has
 been properly defined as another
 name for ignorance. Those who pro-
 fess Him should certainly become
 somewhat conscious of the more
 abundant life of which He promised
 them a knowledge. Those who are
 imbued with faith, hope and charity
 inspired by love have no reason for
 saying: You'll be a long time dead"
 The Saviour rose from the dead that
 mortal man might be assured he did
 not die in reality, but was designed
 to be victor over death. Science
 has demonstrated that the material
 stant1y passing away like a flowing 1
 stream; but the spirit remains ua- touched, substantial immortal That | will be revealed to us which we pre- l pare ourselves to receive.
 It may be true that for every hook | fish is swiming somewhere; but it | doesn't seem to be to the man who | for pickerel; or on the river ice wait l ing for tilts to fall to smeIts, on | a windy, zero-temperature day when 1 waiting and watching is painful l There can be no doubt that swimming | in the waters of the earth are many | more fish than there are hooks on the | face of the earth. If this were not so | whales could not take in a half million small fish for breakfast, prior | to swallowing a dozen porpoises and | a dozen and a half of seal. apiece for | dinner. Some people think a whale could not have swallowed Jonah, but | the truth is some whales are capable of taking in whole platoon of Jon- ah's without feeling any of the bangs of indigestion. There is a fish for every hook; but it takes more than
 hook. An angler is not an angler born; neither is the artist to his art an heir. Fish are so averse to an East wind that a wist angler is said to remain at home while it blows.
 fore you get busy just accept it as good advice, and start in riglt. Knowledge is power, and is a good thing to precede any action. The trouble with half the world is that it doesn't know where it is going, only
 knows that it is on it's way. The world thinks Solomon was the wisest man, but the rankest divorcee could not keep in sight of Solomon as high-fyer. The evidences 0f wisdom are said to be the ability If ! person to bear and forbear; and 10 know what it is best to know and pest to do. Getting wise to things is lust acquiring the knowledge neccs- ;ary. to do them well, or the ability to meet any exigency. He is 6 poor stick who thinks he can cleverly turn als hand to anything. myth There is no -rades and good for none" What we {; nave in us and what we put into our work is all that makes work passable {, Never submit to being made a square <; plug in a round hole if you expect to | ( ind joy as well as compensation in { work. It is said milleniums take { lime to ripen. If
 It is no joke that the contribution oox takes great fancy to twenty ( iollar gold pieces and never seems to { glow over a widows mite, although | he widows mite was a power on .arth many centuries before the con- $ rtbut1on box was invented. It illus z rates that the merit of the gift rests ( n the spirit of the giver not ir the ( ize of the gift. This lesson i1 the ( ullness of it's truth has been recog. ( l1zed for nearly twenty centuries. but { t takes no root. It is accepted as a l t example, but the world f lesitates to follow. If the cortribu- ion box is not actually conscious of t what goes into it the man back of it s S, and as an advertising medium ,t s las been vastly enjoyed by a select ew who gave of their surplus, bae not I n devout and self-sacrificing spirit | i Jo one should think of blaming the \ contribution box for it is only t1e z reature of those back of it, and is V ot to blame for any unseemly or un- ( hrist1an performances; but as an in- 2 consistent instrument it cannot be l a incerely regarded as holy symbol
 No one has ever heard Billy Sunday V complaining that he is misrepresented s y the press and he doubtless smiles g 1hen he hears sympathetic c1ergymen explaining that in the l t se of slang Mir. Sunday is not as 1 ough as the print makes him ap- a ear. The most forcefu1 slang sounds 1 V etter uttered than it can ever ap- t 'ear in print. Mir. Sundays whole r over of attraction is vested in his v bility to be MT. Sunday and ID one q lse, and to express the truth as he r ees it. as glaringly as possible to 1 t ing true to truth. If he had not 1 [ cen a baseball man first he might l t ever have become so conscious of | 2 he value of hard-hitting. A feather
 illow rush for truth does not dis
 urb any evil force. There is too z luch soft-peda1ling in this world. A r ear ticl<led with feather will lie : own and kick up his heels in eIee; l . ut if he is punched with an iron rod ' e will glare and growl and fight. The - dyocacy of the truth requires valor !, 41ov Ies1 |