Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

ture would in the name Of this blessed power make great mistakes. It takes discrimination and good judgment to exercise this divine quality. We are even charged with being so unreason- able that we forgive too little and forget too much!" Religion does not require man to forgive wild beasts or vipers; and these are our enemies as well as mistaken mortals who would harm, maim or kill us There Is no such thing as forgiving a mani ac or any enemy who is defiant though disarmed. To be sure we pardon as
 long as we love, but we cannot do it | so long as we fear. True we must for
 give as we hope to be forgiven, but | there is no hope if we ourselves are not | reconciled. Forgiveness is ever condi- 1 tional as it is ever a duty.
 should like to ask you what kind | of religion it is which looks askance | at the poor when it owes all it has, or l ever can possess, to on6 who was so poor he himself said he had no place 1 to lay his head-nothins worldly he could cali his own. You and l know there are protesting christians who do not think a carpenter is in their class, although they base their claims to righteousness upon the grace and rev. citations of a carpenter, We are a lot of poor, inconsistent fools. Don't you realize it? What is earthly wealth and with which He acquainted the
 world? Religion is something so hum
 ble and simple and sweet that it is recognizable without &nw words or display. We see traces of it some times among the poor and sometimes among the rich: but oh how rare it is! The war has come to Ar end and the reaction is coming on and murnlurs are increasing as to the great debts and the effect of them upon the coun- try, and there is arising a sense of i fear which ought to be suppressed by every one of us because it is injurious i Some people think a debt is a bless l ing. and some think it is a curse. ! wonder if it isn't just what we indi- v:dually make it. Following the Ma l poleonic wars the nations owed bil- i iions Most everything was then pro- duced by hand, and now most things are made by steam and electricity. i The producing power of the nations 1 is now a thousand times greater than l then, and if the debt were a thousand 1 times greater the burden would be no 1 greater It is not a thousand times 1 greater. Expenditures must be re-
 adjusted and then the nations will go right on freeing themselves from debt. l There is an idea in too many quar- rers that capital is the enemy of la 1 Dor when it is really a friend in that
 It keeps the wheels of industry whirl-
 ing and gives labor employment By
 industry, self denial and prudence the
 laborer may soon become a capital ist The man who has one hundred dollars at interest in the bank Is q capitalist, and his capital is helping ] to run business and giving employ ment to other poor men as well as increasing itself by the efficient man. agement of others. It is not capital that is against a man, but his habits, and the conditions which he creates. We have just passed through a period of high wages when men earned three CT four times in government employ
 what they formerly earned, and many of these Workmen have not the sur plus to show some men nave who in regular employment have not earned half as much. It is an old and a true saying that you can't keep a good man down.
 Isn't it queer that the man who can by his horse-play and the woman
 who by her interpretations of the ten :; der and delicately humorous side of domestic life command from 500 thou
 sand to a million dollars a year, or
 from ten to twenty times as much as the salary of the president of the ! United States, or fifty times as much as the best preachers. college profes- : scrs and masterly inventors and en- gineers. Doesn't it beat all what the f people spend their money for? If peo- pie will pay so much for iSughs and
 for tears wouldn't it be a good plan i, to have @ few of the good ones com ing from the pulpit? Are we all blind to the source of Billy Sundays suc- cess-his earnestness, his courage well seasoned with the grotesque, has l made a, success Of him. So long as , we pay twice as much for our smoket
 and beverages as we do for education
 and religion we are not likely to boon
 rroGress as we should.
 Maurice MaeterIinck is of the opin ion that speaking ill of one anothe ', forms three-fourths of our converse. = tion. Then if we should abandon ou = remarks about the weather ther | wouldn't me much commendable con I | versation left. The good word club ! are most cOmmendable, but man need :. something more than thar. How tn y world would be improved # we hat = charity enough to reduce such tall II onethird and cultivated the habit O = talking of the best things Of life o e the things which uplifJ, which do no | demoralize. What a word gab is! An
 tut for this human habit there woul
 have been no such word; and it ma
 be traced back many centuries. 1hI e use of language is really an abuse c n power, for it flinders where it migh 0 telp, and blackenS what might wit l. our aid be white
 d It is openly beinu stated that les = dinner table and more peace tabl a would be more satisfactory to thos r who watch and wait T,n'; it sui a prisinG how much doughnut diploma ;- cy there is in this worl1 Our eat
 seem more necessary to get good re = suits than our brains. Ther we hay
 drive for any purpose ttc manager
 feeds 'ern up," How an annual bar
 quet increases membership for man it societies. It took a woman to dis Ia cover if vol want to lead 6 man fl
 hum up with edibles; and the pol . tician learned that fillei up with f1ui III stimutantS nc was as nlanaGea Die 2 K monkey or q leash. No wonder or well-governed appetite has come to [
 regarded as q great par of Hhert, r. Grubbing up envoys and commission "a CTS and committees is tke way 70 la ', merit and justice low.
 Most eVeryaody thinks Ebenezer be Bibla character. and imagine tn; ; ts why it is seen upon churches 'o this and Christian countries 4 rt = cent searcher discovered that it ws
 no easy matter to find out about Eber " eZer. The people upon whose churcht at it was used did not know what = meant, and 7te standard! referent U books did not disclose ;t. At last
 was found o1t that Ebcnezer can re near being q brick. In the 1st Sa1 B. 7th chap. and 12th versa mention S. thus made: There had been a nigh