Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS

dle that the banks are not dependable, and the government is not efficient, and that Germany can never be whipped, and that it is a sin and crime against our country not to ac- cept the olive branch of peace when it is offered to us; that the kaiser is not as bad as he is painted but the victim of 300 years of savage designs and lifetime of false training; that we have not free country as present reStric- tions show; and that when the war is over we shall find we are manacled in- stead of free; and the mouth of the Willing Ear gets to work and becomes a spreader of German propaganda. People who talk this way do not buy thrift stamps, or war savings stamps, or Liberty bonds. They. whisper to you on the quiet, if you want to be sure-footed, to put your money in real estate and then you will have some thing that will hold.
 Those who hand a man a book to reform him do not know much about mankind No book ever reformed a man yet at best, it can only help. Reformation is the result of being conL scious that one needs reforming, and the will to make ones self better. The victim of habit must do some good thinking and lot of firm resolving before he can start upon a new career. A good friend or a good book is help to better thought, better days and bet ter conditions; but the battle is a con- f1ict of good and evil in the mind, and firm and honest action based upon conviction. All of us who do not honor our righteous convistions, who are dishonest with ourselves. need rC- forming as much as the drunkard or the knave. There are no habits worse than some sins of omission, although they give forth no visible sign.
 There are unwritten laws which mankind should be wide awake to- Every kind of meanness is like 8 boomerang, it comes back to injure the actor. No man can wrong his neigh Dor without injuring himself. Every liar suffers because of his own false hoods, and every harborer of suspicion suffers because of his distrust Wake up to the fact that every person by his conduct fixes his own value, or l lack of worth, in the eyes of all who know him. There is no such thing as 1 lodging the evil consequences to one's self of distrust. jealousy, misrepre- sentation and revenge. How do we | know? "KnoW thyself' and the reve- lation of the law will be forthcoming
 
 | fellow is what makes us blind to the consequences of our own folly
 ln these days of widespread con. servation we should also lend our. ! selves to the cutting out of thought. originating in fear and lending fore. 1 to worry. It is just as necessary t save strength and prolong comfort ana life as l. is to save food. Our thoughts | are the jaVelins that prick us into { frenzy when a littie cooling sense am
 calmEess would keep us serene An ticipGtion is a pr3ncing deceiver: ant fife is constantly demonstrating to u
 nothing is ever 50 good as We thinl
 it Will be. Perhaps you have notice: more than once the higher the antici patton the deeper the disappointment CT that the devil of expectation is sucl
 a little imp that you feel ashamed 0 the fear it excited An exceilen dwelling place for comfort $ in tn Now, with the Past and the F'utur cut out. That which has been shoul
 be cancelled, and that whicn we thinl
 is to be. seldom develops in flu
 force.
 We have heard all we care to hea
 of things made in Germany, SC l wi
 ell you of something beautiful mad
 in France. We know that our heroe
 who have paid the debt of life an won the greater freedom lie in silen
 rows on the green hills of France, wit . adOring mothers and admiring friend
 across the seas trying to visualize tha
 silent city in which their loved on,
 the great sacrifice, sleeps; but, the ad : mirable thing made in France is . widowed mothers or a fatherles . daughters pledge one for each bray . American soldiers grave, to keep thos , resting places in warm rernembranc : and 10 keep them we'll cared for an decorated. The mother heart , France responds to the mother heal of America with this Twill 0o-as-l t would be- done by spirit" which thrill ? the new world with gratitude whi hearts here yearn flor the touch of q vanished hand and the sound of : voice that is still Viva la Franc, . It was Hugh Miller who at the CT a of 20 years of labor wrote: "Exper ence has not shown me that there Il any necessary connection between life of toll and a life of wretchedness
 Such is not the vision of experienc
 hut the pipe dream of illusion. Wretcl
 edness and happiness are condition
 If the mind created by thought IT
 toiier can be happier than a kin! s and millionaire can be as wretcht
 as a convict. Do not forget that f; . niiliar admonition "As q man thinl k eth in his heart so is he" We e
 create wretchedness any time by tai q ing counsel of Distrust or Fear. V o may find pleasure as readily by lent ing our whole thought to our bles
 ings. The jealous and the suspicio g and the enVious can distil wretche IS ness enough to disturb not only then d selves but a nation. A life of t
 hath it's compensations, but 8 life ,e wretchedness hatb none
 j. A superIative Japanese greeting Te May you live a thousand years!" E
 who woulcd desire to live a thousa n years in mortal life with it's unce 5 tainties I believe tradition reveals N' us that one or two of the secretari u to the emperor of Japan have Ii
 ed 800 years; and we are taug It that Methnselah looked down U Is On about 23 generations of mt It from mortal eyes. As we b
 hold men vanishing in the chin ;a Time has made before tn 70 are 40, We are very prone to dot le the measure of years used in the To o1 Ago. And yet if our spiritual teac
 ing is true, and most of it's believe 1- is, ten thousand years do not col a pess the life which bade us behold [ ,e heavens and witness the glory of G. va Hone teaches us to reach out to G
 for eternal life as plant life reacl
 out for the rays of the sun for ST IS taining power. We talk about ct IS nity, but science teaches us it was IS million years ago. is and ever will a so We are dwelling in it. May live thousand years" and acquire eir goodness of the Savior which is nj ve important than the wisdom of Sc ,,- mon.
 re There are too many people in { an world like old Mallinger "who
 too much, drank too much and m;