Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-03
THE MAN WHO TALKS

worry, but just get to work and fiji
 yourself for the big place which you think should be yours. There is no
 such thing as driving little bolts in l big holes or big bolts in little holes, | Fitness spells advancement, so just ! ask yourself if you are fit. Do not get to thinking places which are won | by hard work in this world go by favor; but get to work to make your self masterfuI in every way possible. More than nineteenth Of the ability at I tributed to genius is the fruit of hard work. Examine your habits and see | if they are right. Promptness and po- likeness and self control help to make
 more perfect the mentally or :,racti- cally qualified person for preferment- If you were born to limited opportuni- ties you must bear in mind that the door of fortune opens to those who
 have push, but is forever close to those who sit on the doorstep and murmur. Prove equal to every task you have
 been given and you-will be selected for
 still more responsible work.
 Billy Sunday is not only an evan
 gelistiC phenomenon, but a system atic, clear-sighted business man. He recognizes helpers and sacrifices He
 does not think the press should do
 something for nothing any more than
 the butcher or baker; and he con- ceives that space to the press always represents dollars and cents. Mir.
 Sunday says he would not be a suc- cess but for the generous support of the press, and that the contribution of space by them at regular advertising rates during his Boston campaign Politicians and ministers are too fre- Qunetly blind to what the press does for them, and regard it's support as their right rather than a generous and hearty gift. Billy Sunday seems to be a master of true values. and he doesn't ignore his personal obliga ations, or the debt of the cause to the press. The high compliment he pays to newspaper men is this: That in all his years of relationship. to them he has never
 known one to violate confidence. The clergymen who think the press Mr. Sunday get no CO., operation or compliments from him.
 Happiness is worth striving for. It is not as rare in this wicked world as most people think it is. AS to what it is we do not agree. -Spurgeo1 said consists of being perfectly with what we haven't got. If we had plenty to eat and no appetite for particle of it happiness would not be possible under this definition. We arc warned by Young to beware of what the world calls happiness; and doubt less he knew excess of happiness is the lightning express towards misery Perhaps Pope was as near right as
 
 of sense lie in three words: health, peace and competence" The contem- plation of our blessings never leads us away from happiness; neither does really grows out of learning to trust instead of distrusttng: and in learning to count our mercies and to forget our miseries. The way to strive for happiness is to become blind to pastering trifes, deaf to fostering gos sip and dead to all trouble Got our own Happiness is largely state of mind-the chronic invalid is made happy by the consciousness that the Everlasting arms are beneath as dependable support.
 It is queer, isn't it, that money has never yet bought a friend that was worth the price? Although it has to be a disaster. Money invested in | husbands and wives seldom yields sat- | dividends. Money can be | about as bad a companion as anybody | ever had, as well as a most dependable one in time of trouble. Money is not | as good to have as we think it is, un- | less we are capable of making a good l use of it. It was doubtless called ''the 1 root of all evif' because vice panders l to it. while virtue has no price. Money | was called Mammon because of it's | tendency to make us all slaves With l all its faults it is dangerous to dis | play contempt for it, for then the | whole world questions your honesty. What money makes of us depends upon l now we use it. If we hoard it, we are | if we waste it, we are fools; | f we distribute it for the greatest | good, we are philanthropists. l
 There are many people who think hey cannot find time to read, and hey are often too late when they iwaken to a sense of their loss It is good to be acquainted with books books in keeping with ones tastes, If endeavor. Books may be compan- enable or they may be of assistance n many ways. Ideas are said to be worth dollar apiece, and a book without a single idea in it is not worth eading. I am inclined to believe that deas have been wrested from books ,y the studious which were worth hundreds and perhaps thousands of
 ollars. The reading habit is the one means by which a person can keep l Intellectually up to date. or well equip 'ed for life. It Is reading that broad ms the scope of the human mind and wakes up the imagination so that it ees inviting and pOpulous realms be- 1 ond the sunset. A little reading every lay if it be only a single line may
 e a source of assurance and abiding : elight in the end. If reading is a ask for you at first, it may soon be- ome pleasure.
 if we realized that it is necessary ' D invent a good excuse before we do ;
 mean act there would be quite fall f 1g off in meanness in this life. We , re all lame ducks in the play of re- ! eminent. Perhaps it is true that f there is a spirit of resistance inn lanted by the Deity in the breast of 4 lan, proportioned to the size of the . 'rongs he is destined to endure" but z lan's idea of proportion is usually so F Ut of proportion to the act resented f nat it doesn't seem as if resentment 7 'uId be "a safeguard to justice and F le security of innocence" as it has a cen declared to be. Meanness is . ftener manifested in uncharftaole re- z larks than in overt action. T have ! reat hope of a wicked man. said ;eecher; slender hope of a mean ne;" in other words. meanness is the J lost hopeless wickedness. Some peo- I le seem to be mean by nature and 1 Il ,me by habit, but none can have ! ? Ieanness without reaping the conse- O uences. which are never pleasant.
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