Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-16
Sunday Morning Talk
EVERYBODY IS LONESOME

It is said that the girl who discov- cred the above mentioned fact and made it the basis of her social en- deaVors scored a huge success. She
 discovered that multitudes of people
 wished nothing so much as a friendly ear into which they might pour both their troubles and their joys. In
 the most unexpected places she dis covered the longing for syrnpa thy.
 Going about in the n6od of universal friendiliness. her popularity became established on ui1snakable founda- tions
 Doubtless any Of us, with a like disposition, might duplicate that ex- perienee. It is quite certain, at least that we should find more ioreiinsss in the world than is commonly suspect ed. Some of it might be in our own immediate vicinity Nowhere would
 there be lack of response to genuine overtures of friendship.
 There is surely something moving i in the loneliness Of many Of the noblest lives. How often they have stood pathetically apart from their feliowsl When Gutzor Borglurn, the
 American sculptor, made his famous statue of Lincoln he sized upon this | thing about Lincoln to Borglum was
 his loneliness. So the sculptor made the great war President sitting on a
 stone bench, his hat beside him, rest ! ing alone. Just 50, during the war. Lincoln ilabitually went to the wall 1 back of the White House and sat there by the quiet Potomac. under the
 stars, to think his problems through,
 and to suffer and pray-alone.
 The very fineness of certain natures
 makes them lonely, dweilers in a world apart Their interest can hard ly be appreciated by the rank and file, Dante, Milton Beethoven, and hun | But the crownifig example is the Man Of Galilee. Throughout his trou- kbIed career, how few were able real
 ly to understand our Lord! In the
 world, he was yet not of it. In pro
 portion as his thought was elevated l above the sordid level 5f his time, his Il intinates were few. Not many were
 at home in that spiritual air that hs breatfed as his native element. Yer,
 true and very striking is that ser.
 mon by the great English preacher
 Frederick Robertson, on 'The Loneli.
 ness Of Christ"
 A
 kind, though not in degree, in ordi
 nary natures. Self contained live full of unsharsd hopes, griefs, ant ambitions are ali about us. Thousand : of people would be glad to eof1fide, i
 they had judicious friends to confid ! in. They are feeling as we ourseive { often feel There is nothing unfqu
 about any human mood; generation } of men have had similar joy or sor row df spirit. 4 few adventures il friendship will reveal the touches 6 . nature that make the whole wori' kin.
 , Lonely folk, on their own part, ma, well beware tfie practise Of isolation } It is easy and perflcps to acquire tn lonesome habit. With all his tenn peran1entzi ttfelaftcholy, Lincoln va } still lover of folks and constant 5 ly got out among them. A photosrap : Of the BBrsiurn statue shows sfoti
 sof children playing about the ston
 bench, one of them leaning on tn tall hat. A little girl Is standin 3 between the bronze legs of the Presi 3 dent; a. Negro boy is in his lap. t is what may De seen any day iii New 2 ark and is true parable. of wha : happened in the great Enaancipa r tors life
 5 So it was with Jesus He was no s too lonely to love all sorts and con 5 ldftipns of man. Suffer the iittl tcfildren to come unto me- he sait a They came, and chung to his gar 7 ments. Surely no life can be quit } lonely to which children turn in af s lection and trust. The way out ( 0 loneliness is though that frieiidi spirit which is less concerned wit :, personal moods than with the tas s of making other lives happy
 fl TFIE PARSoN.