Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It was Emerson who discovered that men like substances "boil at different degrees" Aux at different tempera l lures. It is a wise provision of Nature ! that man is possessed of every variety of temper-the tart the sllrly, the l hair trigger, the quarrelsoIne-and l that only a few boil at a time- Trivial 1 things make some souls discontent some over-shadowing peril. The best of all tempers is the good temper which radiates the warmth and cheer of a sunny day. The worst is the un- governed and ungovernable temper which changes a human soul into a grouch What makes a man superior to dog Is his ability to suppress his growl. and by a conception Of his re- ligious duty and spiritual power to eliminate it. The human soul seems to have a low tide and a high tide, an ebb and a flow, and little eddies and whirlpools such as mark the stir ring waters of the earth. and it gets tempestuous and roars-each condf- ton in it's time and place being fit and conmendable. -
 The woman who thinks her hus-
 bands tells her all he knows needs to
 indulge in a little more earnest
 thought We should not forget that
 love is a. suppresser of thought as well
 as an expresser of it. It Is not wise
 for any one to tell another all he
 knows, for usually no man knows one
 half he thinks he does, and the re-
 mainder is likely to be considerably
 dsvarfed in the presence Of truth
 Many weil-dresSed lie passes for
 truth in religious circles, and it forms
 the brokers and the diplomats stock
 in trade Of course a good husband
 tells his wife everything he thinks
 will interest her, and suppresses that
 which would injure his neighbor, for
 in the end it might prove injurious "to
 N-s. fe-f~,
 to say There are truths which it is
 as wicked to remain silent about as
 it is to lie, for instance, the truth
 which would save another from the
 injustice of suspicion and circum- stance. Fiction must wear the garb of truth to be recognized as the pro-
 duct of genius.
 This is good advice: Do not blame an honest dollar for taints that have ago that a great hue and cry was raised against tainted money and 1t would not then have done to have spoken of it as fanatical f1uke. This so called tainted money rightly spent can accomplish any good thing rep by a religious purpose. So- called tainted money could not in- jure any good cause unless it was accepted as a fee for tolerance-as a check to justice. It is true money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul;" and it is also true, that he that wants money, means and content is without three good friends" The taints of mortal man. cannot be transferred to money. The stolen dollar feels just as good on the church plate aS-any other dollar, and will buy just as clean a dinner for a poor family. Dollars that start honest cannot be polluted by business Make money your God" said Fielding. and 1t will plague you like the devil"
 do not know the solace of the use of tobacco in any form, and must confess to a staiwart prejudice against it's use and a sense of pity for those who are tied down to tobacco by the force of habit; but after reading the statement of a woman who distributed to the wounded soldiers in France and told the stories of the re- lief they afforded the crippled and suffering men. I felt a. thank God surging up within me for the thing l thought I abhorred. No one could | joy of the men receiving the comfort | of a smoke, whatever his prejudice, | and desire to have them deprived | of it. I wonder if people who find | solace in ways we do not are not |
 lust as entitled to it as if they found | 1t in our way? I have noticed that | n our prejudices and conceits we are | just as likely to be led into error as he other fellow is. I shall not be-
 ieve more In smoking than I have, | put I can now conceive that a smoke l ,an rise almost to the rank of a bless ng.
 The men with money are not the )nes who are doing most good in the | world. Money flows like water to the | great religious and educational insti- | but ever since the world began he best friends to the poor have been he poor and people of limited means. The worst brute in the world is the nan whose success and fortune has ed him to hold in contempt those vho do not succeed. It seems to be law of nature that good-heartedness Ioes not flourish among those who Mammon. The true riches of he heart only amass where spirit | f helpfulness abides. One pure, goodf
 earted woman may do more for a 'oor neighborhood than all the mill Ionaires of a town. It takes a Car
 egie to throw around millions for libraries, and a Billy Sunday to radi-
 te truth for goods sake, and there
 eed be no comment upon the value or he abundance of the comparative re- ults- It Is strange that in this world he people who do not belong to the istocracy belong to God. now" is a better fellow than the nan who has not the honesty of his onvictions. Agnostics are few by l rofession but multitudinous in saity. The criticism of Carlyle, This ] eligion at best is an anxious wish ke that of Rabelais, a great Per aps," fits thousands of church mem { CTS who adopt the symbols of rei- ion, but remain unmindful of the ] act that they are in the mighty push [ f righteousness-the do not push $ ut become a dead weight. If Jesus ere living today he would be what ardinal Mercier is-a live wire; or ' e might be like Billy Sunday, a 75- orsepower dynamo. There was no loping in His 1ife-it was all doing Ehen n1r. Sunday told the protesting ' hristians of New York if they did t ot serve their country any better f Ian they served God, their country [ 'ould go to hell, he uttered a trilling l 'uth- The man who is meekly will l T lg to be saved and does not become t onscfous it is a part of his saliva ton i ) work for the redemption of others, t as light grip upon righteousness. r
 When Abraham Lincoln said "the i lalneSt print cannot he read |