Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS

want a. feeling of meanness to take possession of your soul. No one can make us feel so small aswe can make ourselves feel-nothing car harrass us worse than the consciousness that we are false to our best munitions. The person who does his part is com sciotfs of the spirit of honor which SHstaiflS him. while the spirit or the sneak envelopes 1ny one who evades the defensive and protective responsi- bilities of life, and throws the great CT burden upon his neighbor. Our daily life has it's rewards and pun ishmeflts, and man cannot flee from himself Whoever sEifks and does not feel ashamed can do worse things with6Gt feeling guilty. Our Sense 0f duty represents the voice of honor it's violation dishonor.
 You should not forget that what the world calls good lives are often
 made up of pretty poor raw materlai' a Goodness in ;he mouth of man is oft enef tainted there than anywhere else. I find it proftable to ask my self what I know about the goodness or badness of any other individual ex- cept myself, and to consider how competent a critic I am of my own worth or lack of quality. Burns tells us What's done we partly may com pute, but we know not what's resist ed" Taking that for basis of 5ud&n1eit 1t is not difficult to err. It is an indisputab1e fact that "the most abject poverty blights the most re- ligieus nation on earth" Where good
 ness reiSns how is 1t Sorrow and sui fering becomes so apparent? Good ness can only beget heavenly results; but seffishness can and does def1le the house of God.
 4 great many people in advanced life love to repeat that prayer of trust taught them at their mother s knee. in infancy, Now I lay me down to sleep alternately with the pray CT of love the Savior taught us: Our Father who are in Heaven.
 These simple prayers represent the most devout utterances of the human heart in all Christian countries, and through them every day the trusting and loving fnurmurs of earth must rise to heaven in such q harmoni- ous volume as to contribute to the joy there. Man even in prayer is gfvef to verbosity, and forgets that divine the honest utterances Of a eontritt heart; also that simplicity is tht first step of Nature and the last il art" The Lord, who knows the hear 1 Of man, doesn't need 8 great array O | the finest words from the dictionar! 1 to be informed of his nee0s-He ha l the detail and if the appealing hear 1 is warm with trust and love, His vii hear the simplest petitions.
 The man or woman, who can identif. n hrT 1,fN al up in bird study. The sparroWs var,
 in size more than they vary in colo l or markings, and the manner of tn bird and it's warbling, and any pecu i liarity of flight, are helps to it's iden ] tity which serve better than distinctly 1 marks which are not always in evi | dence. The fox and white throate, l sparrows began to arrive from tn north on the closing days Of Septem tber, with other migrating birds; an sparrows in flocks are exploring gar l dens for seeds. A flock of Englis l sparrows, old and young birds to gether, carry nearly every color know l to sparrowdom, even to white al though I have never seen an Englis
 sparrow with white tail feathers, ex cept in case of an a1bino. The chipp
 and the white throat, white crown an
 LOA 0PdI1OWS 1lldy DS lOlAt dl o ld4iA
 as well as the male English or son sparrow, but the others are difficult |
 identify.
 We all have to face the inevitable
 and it is something the human so1
 has never been able to get used 1
 whatever our hopes or our faith. Bl
 bereavement is a challenge to all ths ] is best within us, and through teal | and hlorfao ohns- Xua ri n ia m
 captions of truth and q fuller recoe
 milton of Divine power Through tt valley of the shadow of death Thy re and Thy staff do comfort me- is mul , mured by Memory with angelic in pressiveness-with the force of 8 reve , lation. In the. hour when we seem lose heart and voice We are not pc mitted to lose hope. Hope is stronge when it shines forth from the dal background of affiiction '"rhe be } antidote for sorrow" says Young, , employment" and Tennyson remint us that Sorrows crown of sorrow
 remembering happier things"
 , Do you. realize that no book can ho all of truth, and no mortal mind G comprehend it, for truth pervades u universe, and is it! We find it nut easier to speak the truth than to Ii it; and the truth we take from othe = and do not let possess us and becon = 1 our possession, is like a false tooth , a mask. There is no fooling wi truth. There are times when even t ' truth is dangerous, when prudence r
 quires that it should be hidden silence. That old proverb, Tell t
 truth and shame the Devil" was ma
 1 before it was discovered that "Di
 cretion is the better part of valor."
 is always more profitable to apply t s truth to ourselves and to try to ma = it manifest in our lives than to a . tempt to use it to measure others. T
 more we keep truth within us t , better we shall know the way
 truth. We never can be as great
 truth; but truth can develop greatne
 in us.
 t While we are pitying the aff1ict
 in these death dealing times we owe
 look the demands of the nurse up l. our consideration and sympathy The l. are few patients who are auiable IT the nurse; or regard her with the [ s. lection she deserves in civil life. N m Blaine in her "reminiscences says:
 call the nurse everything I can thi ,u of: 'Goody, a Witch, a Crpne, an { n Flag, Gree. a Fateful Sister: in ia It she is only a nurse, but if you Y m tranSpose the n into a you will Te her character much better" This k the patients measure of the cAarac
 of the nurse. and in it you discover is character of the patient. Nature co is pels us to show our character in - .4 we do, and say. The name in oi 't life demands big pay and doesn't col "a upon anything else; but the nurse
 the battle-swept sections of Eurt IS in her disregard of self and pay see sd to her suffering patients to- be an 2 ss gel of mercy. Money and gratitu
 seem to be all right in their pro- places.
 r. The books say that a man will sta ,s to death in 21 days if deprived of ft