Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS

must be for their country or against it. To be luke-warm is to be a sus- pect The issue is so well defined that there is no excuse for not know ing where one stands, or. for being weak link in the national cable Amer lca IS standing now as the hope of the world, and the Stars and Stripes is the emblem of humanity to the people Of every freedom loving nation and tribe on the face of the earth Amer ica is in the war to maintain for all time that Right is Might! And to slay that viper of hell, Might is Right! Any man against the government is not protecting his own freedom. We should all be conscious that "the greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to future generations"
 The fall cricket is no favorite and many people dislike the mournful | notes he utters; and few of us realize what wonderful creature the fall cricket is. He was attuned to the tenn perature before man was capable of producing a thermometer: and the cFlckets kept time in a thousand pas
 lures on warm nights before a sense Of harmony had dawned upon man. It l is an established fact that the crickets never chirp when the temperature is lower than 50 degrees; and when the cricket chirps iG0 times in a minute the temperature is 64 degrees; they all chirp in unison in each field, but i in the different keys in different communities. Those familiar with the musical habits of this gueerly shaped
 creature can tell by counting the num- | per of chirps minute the cricket is lnduLging in exactly what the temper q tfI icsa %,. mometer with it's love-notes, warning
 notes and battle cry, is one of the most wonderful creatures in nature.
 We all wish that these war drives were accompanied with good sense and good manners, but since they are just human this is too much to ex- l pect The patriot who is doing his l best has to be nudged the same as the citizen who shows no awakened in
 terest, and if he politely says ''noth- ] ing doing" he is threatened with be- l ing reported as a stacker, notwith- standing he has his inside pocket l crowded with war savings stamps and | bonds. There are citizens who are giving and lending for war purposes all the money they can afford, and there are twice as many good patri- 1 otic citizens who would invest money i 1T they had it, and there are a few who are only doing what they are forced to do. The drive, though very ('isa9 9reeable to, the generous, is made necessary by those who are lacking in
 disposition and enthusiasm. The ilI-
 hammered solicitor is a misplaced pawn
 and naturally gets hard knocks Let s 1 Keep sweet and treat the fools accord =
 ing to their folly.
 How feeling helps in thought or
 prayer, The heart must be right in
 order that we may realize the power 1 of truth, or the love of God How
 many think you who say Our Fath-
 CT who art in Heaven feel as they | would if they were addressing a low i ing father in the home or a dear
 friend who commanded their fullest | confidence and admiration. Prayer is
 often made ineffective by our lack ot l heart-feeling and ridiculous by our doubt and insincerity. How different
 prayer is to those who appeal to God as a friend with love, from prayer
 to those who address him as a potentate and fear His power? When Christ pointed out to us that God was our Father it was to awaken in us the l consciousness that our relation to Him
 was that of trusting children, and to
 arouse in US the same close and beau | tiful relations which exists between
 dutiful children and their natural guardian and protector. If Gcd was tc i have been regarded in;,the minds oi
 men as Your Majesty" can you
 truly think His prayer would have
 begun with-"Our Father who art
 in Heaven 9"
 Boston has discovered that the toad
 has the homing instinct like the dove and the bees and ants, and that | If taken ten or twelve miles from its
 haunts, that a toad dropped at night ] will be found at home in the morning The Nomad' cites two authentic cas- es, in the Boston Transcript, where toads were carried ten miles from 1 home, labelled and dropped as late as i0.S0 D. m. and were found in theiI old stamping grounds with their tags 1 attached the next morning. How the l toad senses the direction in which tc
 go is a problem the scientists are not
 likely to discover Quite a discussion 1 arose as to the ability of toads tc
 travel and the calculators were told il
 they had ever seen a toad running away from a blacksnake they would
 realize that Mir. Bufo could speed up I was surprised to see a toad turn one evening and hasten as if he had for.
 gotten something. I timed him ant measured the number of feet he hop.
 ped in a minute and found he was ca.
 pablo of hopping faster than the av.
 craze man can walk
 Do most people think more of styi,
 in the pulpit than they do of tht
 Word. How few sense what a veal
 thing oratory is in the presence O
 truth when most awkwardly spoken
 Preaching Is good thing; and nt man can make it too good; but thu elegance of expression is not the thin: to be admired, for the spirit of trutI
 contained in the preaching is tn, spiritual food of Gods children. I'm
 scholarship from the speakers lip
 cannot enter into you, but the trutl
 clothed in his words can become
 developing force in your character and a help to other men, What is call ed the best preaching is often so gor ) geously attired in metaphor tha 7 the truth is lost The greatest evan l gelists have found simple truth tn
 most effective. The truth cannot b , glorif1ed by any human style since i
 is divine and the source of it's own ef
 fectiveness or power. The pastor merely the servant of truth, and he i
 to be pitied if he mars the beauty an = power of the Gospel.
 T saw the first snow bird this yea 0 on Sept. Fist and heard the frs
 ch1ckadee on the 17sh and he was stil . in evidence on the 25th. If this doe | not mean an earlier setting in of win ] ter. the unusual coolness of Septem = ber was doubtless the melting caus
 of their early arrival. The heaY September rains drove the sparrow t to the gardens to share the thistl n birds food, and the bluejay come e now and then for a feed upon Sun