Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
se fAs [ Ss THE MAN WHO TALKS

We have just been singing through out Christendonl. ,sHark! the Herald f Angels Sing." But it has always been l a period of pleasing sounds not deep and serious impressions The Chris tian world has done more marking for two thousand years than doing. Half the world today accepts the sentiment as beautiful, but not practical; and all mankind seems totally incapable of making a reality of conditions which would make life heavenly. There's too much fiddle faddle in all | of the worlds singing and praying.1 Beautiful songs and beautiful prayers are of less account, thans beautiful f doughnuts unless human souls are | purified and glofified by them. It is l high time singing and praying | amounted to something more than | pretty words and sounds.a -.s .'
 Many people would be mortified 1 should they be told there is as much l truth in some novels as there is in | the book of St. John, simply because they are unaware there is truth in any novel. It is far from error to pro- claim that standard novels do not con- 1 tain any more fiction than standard | history. It is the well-dressed facts which make the deepest impression in al. literature. Real life cannot be ex- aggeFated by man any more than real sunset The fact is words have not been invented yet which can fully express what man sees, feels or does. Novels are sinplys pictures. of the schemes and actions of men and wo- men; and if the women are not real the action of the men, women and children in them have and will have their eounterpartsa in the conduct of
 human souls for all time.
 Lord Hugh Cecil says to his fellow
 citizens: We are Christians first and
 Englishnen afterwards;"- but it looks
 to me as if they were just the reverse
 of this. As self-preseryation is the first law of nature so self-defense is
 the first law of nations. England is
 engaged ill a righteous war now, but
 her unrighteous conquests are like the tfifles at a country auction. sale--too numerous to mention ~ and the selfish
 motive is still present: but England still is Christian in her treatment of enemies within her borders and the enemies who cali for mercy or fall in- to her hands. As Christians the Eng fish decline to initiate the barbarious practices of the Huns and their allies. The claim of battling forces that they are fighting for God and Humanity is and ever has been a false pretence. for it is only. occasionally that qinterna- tional strife can put up a righteous defence. s These are not times when any citi. zen prompted, by selfishness should proclaim what the country or the president can't do, for it is ,=mucls wiser. and more profitable to consider what may it not do for the protection of it's citizens and the preservation ei the government: There, are men who do not realize that an order from the government to furnish coal te citizens who are without it, Mnilesit infringes upon what they consider their trade 1 rights, is very much. pFeferable to a l mob seizure, of coal .andy perhaps the violent destruction, of their nfoperty. 1 The government knows that no famine pressed people will withhold 1 violence in the presence of what they are suffering for-they would not be
 men of they would Inselence in, these l days on the part of those in power is trot wise, and the way of least friction
 is the best and safest way. Men who 1 win not do right should be made to 1 do so., .,l..e.t-. .aa.r
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 ] \. Henry Ford as paeifist evened, UT l as a generous citizen, and an egotist; l but as an American patriot and genius l he is making worldwide fame for his ] great ability, and sound sense. He in his great mechanical support of tfe l government declines to be a profiteer- CT; and he tells the speculators it is their duty to get off the backs of bet ter Americans and to strive : to pro- | rsnfn i,,c*ood f,-oY,a H. fish motives the well laeing of the peo- 1 pie and the success of righteous gov ernnent. While his competitors have l sought to make him and his works fr ] the interest of the greater numbei | appear to be q joke and failed, he has 1 painted their character as enemies. ir burning words and succeeded. w tnever expsoted to say. this much for Mir. Ford, but honesty and candoi require that it should, be said.
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 One of the most pitifuI exhibits oi
 the war is how slowly heather ideas
 are knocked outtzs and how valiantl,
 men can die who by every law of righ'
 and order ought to live. What mar lack is seif-eeatrola put in the, place of masterful control would eIin1inat, Inost of the friction. which trdisturh
 | l4dtlpiIS .ilI0z tttuGit tltE Wotbt NhICI , destroy the young. manhood an( . genius of the world. 7 If the divint |, rights of kings survives the presen
 world massacre 1T and consequen
 nenacing famine which we are al
 warned we must work to prevent, tn
 senselessness of man and his tlncon sciousness of his own. rights and pow CT will leave no doubt that he is o
 Silnian descent and is as ia
 from being capable of self. governnep 5 as the Arborean tribes from which h 7 evolved. 4z.,+ .9 aft .1t ::
 When anyone begins to realize 4flei
 work. is wearing fercely upon then . they should then sense that the trou
 ble is principally with themselves 1t i |, l. not the work. but antagonism to tn, work. which creates hard sledding l arising from Iovenof leisure or lacl of interest. Work is always wearin! ! if We-.do not strive to do it we'll or i U we come to regard it as drudgery an. q ourselves not much better than slaves To be doing something useful an,
 profitable should be source of pleas
 ure; and doing little things we'll n the way which leads to the accom- n plishment of greater and better thing
 It is in opposition to ourselves tha
 we excite 1rrltatlng nerves and ereat . conditions which, make everybody re lated to or connected. with us uncem
 Portable. HaIf,< the, ills of man coul n be cured today; by well directed oeeu S patton. More of us are rusting ou S than wearing out. ..4.4-.:~r # It must be pleasing to. the grea '' and distinguished family of Smiths t
 know that they are connected wit
 the family of Shakespeare. The Lon e don Observer of a recent date says e Tt is known that the line of Shakes o peare's. .:hnffV teru1ina ted in hi