Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

Some sort of change in the daily troutine is necessary, at intervals. for most people. Generally speaking, n1onotony is one of the avoidable ills | of life. There are chances for reere- ation in most occupations. if one is; alert to see and take them. The sedentary worker will be the. better for half hours daily practise with l a bucksaw. The lumber jack should | try to spend half hour each. day I with good book. Let one avoid be- coming muscle bound. in brain or 1 body. Everybody needs occasional re- spite from the thing he does most o1 1 the time. He will do his regular wort; l the better. -~~.'.-,ss
 No form of renewal is more .neces- sary than that which affects the in- ner life. Spiritual powers will no: remain Indefinitely in full vigor Uh- 1 consciously, often, the process of deterioration goes on. Hundreds are in the case of Samson who twist not that God had departed from him.
 Nothing grows stale quicker than ? religious experience that is not con himself thut., years ago; he took out first papers in the kingdom of heaven
 while, in all the time since, he has
 been living almost like an alien enc l my. Said Tom Hood:
 IT remember, I remember
 The fir trees. dark and high:
 IT used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; ...
 It was a childish ignorance. Al.
 But now 'tis little joy is grE T To know I'm father off from heavel
 ! Then when I was boy.> a,g r-,- '. I Many a man thinks he has lost al
 capacity for faith, when he has realI, : lost only the zest of certain old ex
 periences. The life batteries ar
 there, but they need retharging:< H
 must take some effort to renew. tn
 old motives and regain the E. old vi T sions. There is a hygiene , of tn spiritual life as infieXible as that con trolling the physical health. In al address to young ministers, a. grea
 journalist, Talcott Williams. urge
 the importance of such hygiene counselling the giving of time an the same time. if possible. each day an appointed reading, constar meditation, prayer which shall ,.- b : iperpetuaHy seeking to follow tn :. developments of all , prayer in a faiths, and to pass from oonsciou : petition to conscious communion"
 The clergyman needs such constan
 freneWal at perennial springs, if hi
 work is to 'carry on with any ef feet whatever. He could not endur without it. Called perpetually t give. he must first have received .Bu : so does everybody else. need it Mh would look out with eyes 5, of fait : upon this perplexing world. a,-f..:. Fl ! ."They that wait upon the, Lord sha ' |renew their strength" is the ancier promise. You have justification tner , for every practise of devotion z which men engage. Prayer is fc the purpose of recharsing lifes bat - teries. The habit of church. attend , iance is for the same end. It may mal . small appeal to thousands in. ever American comn1SnitY, but 1t vi !, never lose favor with other thousand , who have como to view the matter i V the light of opportunity rather tha ; fmerely of duty. No more profitah !, habit could be formed in the ne i year by one who wishes to. .discovs
 the real basis for human optinisr o kwl,o wishes to see life clearly and si f it whole. .... ' THE PARsoN.,