Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-07
TIE MAN WHO TALKS


 fessee, but if 1t is good enough for him why shelid you or be concern ed. 1t may be his faith by birth, by profession or by adoption. and all he has or is capable Of understanding If the neighbor lives so as to show the value Of his religion in his life to himself and his neighbofs he is doing all anybody can do, and more than most people succeed in doing. Peo- pie who cannot see any good outside their sectarian fences should be pitt jed rather than blamed. They do not know when God pronounced every thing on earth to be good the sec tartan fence had not been conceived of That is one of the things man found necessary to support selfish, ideas. If we do not think OUT neigh Dor is a good Christian it is up to us to show hitl how to observe the Jaw. It is well to he a good example in any neighhorhood; but life seems to have been so ordained that the bad example is not out of sight long at time. It is great to be exactly what we profess to be.
 It is not strange that some one has been bold enough to fnH1fault with the Star Spangled Banner, since pien- ty of people venture to complain of the inaccuracies of the Lords prayer. It is well to bear in mind that mans work is never perfect and that the critic is just as necessary to exem.plify one phase of life as the wasp is to express another. We might think things are true which are not, or that things were perfect which possess no grace of form or style, if we did not have some one to alarm us and make rtyar hf fFa1f aEAd ions. Usefulness and popularity do not always walk hand in hand in this life. Men have been more severely punished for telling the truth than they have been for stealing horse, although men have been shot for both as being equally offensive. The Star Spangied Banner and the Lord s Prayer are likely to be cherished whatever may be their real or their fancied denerits.
 You who read this column no doubt have noticed I am especially fond of pretty story of the goidinch's love of haps you are not aware that birds and butterflies have a taste for colors and a memory of colors. A canary birth will not bathe in a white dish after it has had an amber one; and some birds will flee from any person wearing the same color as the gunner ! who shot into the flock. Here is a pretty story of the goldfinch's love of scarlet. It is calledt the thistle bird because it waits until the thistle has seeded and then lines the nest with l the silk in such a perfect fashion that | in embroidery noticed that gold ] finch nearby took great fancy to fl i and threw the spool in the grass. The l bird after carefully examining the spool found the end and took it to the nest and patiently lined it's nest with l the silk in such eperfect fashion thai ! 1t was found upon examination tht silk could have been rewound upor the spool, This lady left her worl basket upon the piazza and g flock ot i six goldfinches came and scratched l over the contents to find silk to line their nests which confirmed the con 1 clusion scarlet is the goldfnches ia. 1 yorite colcr.
 1 There are lots of educated naeE who will laugh at you if you venture 1 to say animals or plants have anVthin! | which should be called mind or ar' 1 endowed with the ability to think. 1 horse will neigh every day at noo1 for his meal, this is habit; dog vii go for the mai every day at 10 a. m
 
 spider drops down on his silken threat to be conveyed to an adjacent objec
 to bridge the gap and make an insec trap, this is an instance of venture the orchid feels the branch upon whicl it has located is weak and moves t stronger branch, yet it doesn' sense peril; a horse blowing a furrOy I steers out to avoid a collision with stump or a boulder in the furrow, bu it mustn't suggest to the human min l memory and carefulness: a horse doesn't shy at the place of previou peril on the highway because he think of danger. Did you ever? Divin mind fills the universe and from it al Gods creatures receive ability, com i fort and protection according to thei needs.
 It matters not whether we ar prejudiced or not against the Eng
 fish sparrow we have to recogniZ
 his ability to adapt himself to cir
 cumstances. He is by nature ar
 boreal but he can accommodate him
 self to any old way of nest building o } training. Any old place will do fo
 nest from a hole in the cornice of
 city house to a hole in a Canadia |; five ton hay stack; and without tre or bush they train their young on tn traffic streets of a city. 1 saw a spar
 row mother with a young bird tha could not feed itself on the top of
 three story city buildg, seeking foo in the street and feeding it. Tn young bird looked longingiy down g the busy street, but when it flew wit strong flight it lit upon a telegrap
 wire and the mother fed it ther,
 These young birds develop their wing power, by exercising their wings a moths and hufaming- birds do. unt } they have no doubt of their ability {
 fly. The traff1c-stree of a city is . dangerous training place for youn : birds.
 We do not think it possible for lit,
 children to feel lonely in city street when they are out with adults seein } sights. It is doubtful if there is any s thing more interesting to a bright eyed, well dressed little girl, than son other bright eyed well dressed lit : girl. On a crowded city street re l gently I saw two such little gir : meet. They were strangers, and il
 one passing on the walk sought , make acquaintance with the oth, :, little girl standing on the curb. Sl waited for no introduction but jul . walked up and took the other lit
 girl by the hand. and they smiled ar r their eyes. twinkled and they jul f held hands. They did not put the f gladness upon meeting into word : but just looked it. just beamed 5 one another It was pretty sight,
 they could not express in words u n pleasure they felt. It was true den S ocracy meeting upon the plane !. love. It was a heavenly picture
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 The greatest type of heroism tl < world has ever known was shown V Jesus of Nazareth, and yet neith He nor the men who have followed IL His footsteps are ever alluded to