Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS

To Know how to. grow old has been pronounced to be the masterwork of
 wisdom, and one of the most dimcalt
 chapters in the art of living The
 forty becadse they have never learned how to live. Because of the excesses
 of youth man does not live out haf
 his days. Those temperate in all their
 for by their habits they are honoring
 not only themselves but fathe- and mother. Age requires that men shall
 simplify their fare as well as harPor selves tp passing years or their lack
 of discretion will it them for the ur1-
 dertaker- Ignorance is often more
 fatal than bad habits; and heedless- ness as crippling as life in ths army:
 Wisdom is said to be 10 the mind
 what health is to the body; and the
 ofdce of wisdom is to know oness own
 weaknesses and to correct them, to
 know what we do not know as well as
 what we do know. TO be always up-
 A life of ieisurs is usually a life. Of
 sin. Ignorance of the fact. that in duStry is necessary for the dSt efop-
 ment of manhood spells failure Tn idlenesa for any person whether he be rich or poor, but deteriorations The earlier in life a human soul discovers that it is necessary to have a pur-- to him. There are too many people who do not know where they are go-1 ing. only that they are on the way. who sense weakly they must do some thing. but do not know what Eflci- ency in life is knowing what to do and then bending every energy for it's The mind filled with business has no room to take in the biues-the eyes filled with. hope .ares usually empty of tears. The enjoy ment We hope to find in leisure is an illusion and a snare All of the en- joyments of life are founded upon work
 The world does not wants to believe right is inf1exible. It does not like rigidity-it is fonder of license. Right recognizes the beauty of straight lines if art does not. Truth cannot wob- ble although protesting devotees of truth may. The errors of mortal mind so much talked about are the result of misconception of truth. Some people believe there is no such thing as absolute truth because error Is so common in the modes of it's ap- plication. Truth is deeper than lan- guage-it is best expressed by action. Truth lies in character. As great divine has observed: Christ did not simply speak the truth-He was the truth Man is but a feeble represen- tative of truth if the truth does not possess his soul. The truth which we accept rather than possess in it's real relation to us is like crutch or a glass eye-it is of use to us,- but not of us. HTof thine own self be true" said Shakespeare. and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Those who discover it is not expedient to tell the whole truth aie frequently and justly charged with lying.
 
 A western woman feels sure the way to keep husband is not to try to keep him, but to be as totally un aware of having any power over him as though he were her brother or friend. She doesn't subscribe to any keeping or cooking a. husbafd. sThey married because they were of, simi- lar habits of thought and tastes and whatever interests one is sure to in terest the Cthers In short a union of interests and an unfailing- trust is a magnet which holds hearts firm and interests true. They have none of the quizzing matches the scenes resulting from lack of con- fdence. They have a way of doing IS they please, which is always. pleas ing to them. When distrust creeps nto the human heart jealousy soon gets firmly seated there, and then iiscord and wrath and tears soon make a. wreck of the hofiest' relation n life. Those who live true need hot resort to strategy to keep pal tner rue.
 The reason the power of love, as the tried. is because man has never be- come exalted enough to recognize the worth, or power, or comfort of it. Man defines love as an instfnct-an llliance of friendship and animalism. The love most men are quick to rec ,guize is self love and quick to dis rust is the spiritual love which would make all men conscious that they are nen are akin, and should be@of one purpose Pointing out the power of owe Goethe declared that man is 'haped and fashioned by it-false and | rue love puts its impress upon Us all l Perhaps it is true that love is aE that 1 emains of the language of Paradise. | Love manifests itself with such force | hat Southey ventured to say: Take | way love, and not physical nature | 'nly, but the heart of the moral world would be palsied Made a basis of | it would be productive of | he lasting peace and the thrifty I 'rotherly conditions for which all peo-1 lie yearn and the religious deveutly ,ray.
 How much of compliment is it to ay of a person: He never had an nemy in the world ? 9FeH people real | ze that the person who has never made an enemy in the world is a fail
 re. Always following the lins of | east resistance is the way not to dol ur duty. It is impossible for man o positively act right, talk right or | ray right without arousins antagon- sm; and positive antagonfsrn means
 activity, which not infre- luently ends. in violent demonstra- ions. The men who stand true are l he men who make enemies. Who had nore enemies than George Washing on or Abraham Lincoln H we look
 ack far enough and sharp enough we hall find He who sspake as man EeyeE