Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS

This is a truth: ssSature and books belong to the eyes that see them" of earth because the eyes Of love. the eyes of the mind. have not been op03- ed. and while others may stimulate the eyes Of the mind to get a gfeam only. the interest of the soul itself may keep them open. The only world any of us really become familiar with is the world we have created for our selves. a world of thought with core absence of beauty from our environ ment, yet more than half the people in the world live and die without ever Becoming conscious of what a service love of the beautiful may become to the human soul; and quite as many round out their lives without feeling the inspiration, the mind power drawn from ably written books. It costs ours. and we must pay the price. No one who has ever made hfmseM pos sessor of them has ever com psained at the cost, since the recompense is ann
 pie. Never forget the promise: Seek
 and ye shall find" s's : .-sTs
 Have you ever thought that beyond nature man can never go even s:in
 thought although he can go beyond in imagination. Science deals wholly with life energies, but it has always failed to get any clue to the character
 Of life itself. As to the bounds of
 nature we know practically nothing;
 and man has been able to find no
 naturally regard nature as Gods means of furnishing us not only ex- pressions of life and truth. but the
 things which sustain life and truth.
 Great authors have told us nature is
 "a name for an effect whose cause is God" that nature and revelation are
 alike Gods boolss;p that nature is an Aeo1ian harp, a vestment of God. a
 ,1.a1z IL
 seen; vast symbolism" etc, etc. We
 know that in nature cause and conse-
 quence closely follow one another and lead us to conclude she is nlerciless, but through what Emerson saw we learn nature IS too thin a screen: the glory of the One breaks in every where" This is the one thing 1t is
 we'll to be conscious of.
 There always has been and always
 perity some mems passions wax. fat and their virtues take on a consunp- tive look. It takes a level head and humble heart to make the man fit
 success ana success iit him. Efficiency
 does not all rest in ability, for it needs
 to be well rooted in good Judgment
 and broad-gnindedness.. It is a pitiful sight to witness attainment wrecked
 by evil habits or lack of moral stam- ina. Vanity often leads success a wild
 and wearying dance. The concept of life must be right to make the most of achievement. One must know how to
 live right to make prosperity of real value. When success develops all sorts of selfishness and conceit and ill.,
 manners and intolerance it has really checkmated itself and wrought odious prejudices instead Of the admiration
 and praise which is it's due. No man Is a success who in all things but
 money-getting has failed. R.
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 l suppose this is what may be called psychological fact: stAs we grow better we meet better people" People of quality and the people of no traction to one another. The two powers by which we can advance is by our moral sense and our self-inter- est both of which reinforce the will. the power is with every soul to :-esd : vance We cannot move up without exertion; we cannot attain quality un- less we put the right value upon it Worth always connfnends itself to worth. Good people find their pleas
 ure in associatian with good people.
 Nothing is good which undermSnes
 health or character. Many things are
 called good which do both Nature is
 an exacting task master and rewards us for our virtues and taxes us for our excesses to the limit. To be right we must do right. Men of intellect and sense realize the value of preparedness in every field Of life. A paciffst is put down ss a e-eakling because he lacks the vim sswhich should characterize man. hood. A Methodist minister who was called to a California pastorate was ] informed of the violent character of hds congregation, but it did not seem in the least to interest him, to say nothing of exciting fear: He enter ed the church on the Sabbath day as rose. looked his tough Iaymen in the face, took a revolver from. each hip pocket and placed them on either side of the Bible on the pulpit. and then said: Let us pray!s' His fellowmen realized that the man before them was prepared to shoot as well as to preach. They felt the magnetism of a mans presence and they did not venture to interfere with the word of God as he saw fit to preach it.. He put his trust in the Ford and in -binnself-as though if the the Lord would take care of him he would take care of the congregation.
 Those who jugale with figures and find pleasure in them feel sure that the one-hundredth- -thousandth Sun day of the Christian era will be reach ed on July 9th, 1917. It must have re- 5
 reached a definite conclusion; and no doubt the door for controversy Is by it left wide open. If the Christian
 world hit the trail one hundred thous-
 and weeks ago it certainly was never stacker in it's acceptance and practf cal demonstration of the Christian
 code than it is today, It seems to us that it should be a season Of deep eontrition rather than "a jubilant festival A great many foot prints have been made on the sands
 of Time in one hundred thousand weeks and great many hundreds of thousands of kindly deeds and noble personal sacrifices been made by the devout, but compared with what might have been done the record is not so sublime. Lived up to faithfully ono foundred thousand weeks is long enough to have produced the millennium I in the Christian world. Perhaps man is not to blame for thinking women are queer. There are many things about women they have never been able to solve. They have