Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Il M l to more and ybefter preaching eveF, 1 year and. pracIices the preceptsf of re- ligion less and less l? On the precepts Of religions rests not sonly pernaIient :! peace but the millennium. not upon a | league of nations with ten thousand | fighting ships and ten million fighting men, Forre= may be resorted to for l the maintenance of order. but not for the establishment of the brotherly re- l lati0ns in- which real peace svAbides | What the world is yearning for today 1 is honor and honesty among men, in stead of religious pretenses-a square
 deal for our fenoYmen from the | told for thousands of years that che I resorts too freely to force when love and justice would make the, world l right.
 Half of the failures iN this world arc 1 ehargeab1e to those who push their i boys in at the stateroom windows. and attempt to make captains of them. | They are ignorant of the fact that the | great captains begin before the mast, Iors were born in novels. not paiaces. There is. no royal road to mastery. there is no parior entry to successful business. The laws under which men requires work to be anything above a ioafer, a molly ycoddle or a dude. Mas tery is the price of being skilled even in vfllainy. What any job requires of you IS or more importance than what you expect of the job. :: Life would never have come to be regarded as a game had not man made it series of conspiracies. They begin in the home for the attainment of small affairs and they result in the over throw of empires: and as the world war evidenced. aim at the subjusations of the worlds entire population. We are all intent upon beating the other fellow, unmindful of the spiritual re- r.-, |, s-I <l- sure way of beatin~. ones self Man cannot escape the consequences of his
 selfishness and sim in any direction. Life seems to be but skein of yarn for man to ravel. and he is such sue- cess at it that God alone can make 1t what it should be.
 What makes the world go is energy. and it takes a live man to keep up with it. There are too many people on earth who would rather be burden than rather than walk. They do not seem to realize that health and strength have to be maintained. that the price of a joyous robust life is work There are. too many who nope and grow weary doing nothing. and who waste their substance and are sur prised by those who easily outdistance them There is no profit in trying to initiate the Joneses. or merit either. The merit in this life lies in being man and filling a mans job.
 It is strange so many cannot see that the liberty which, inyades human rights and violates the law is Urea son. There, is no such thing as absolute freedom. Ih this free nation of ours we are free within the laws which we make for our own government, in the observance of our religious duties, in the free expression. of religious and political opinion. and free to make de- fense against every form of oppression or tyranny. Rational freedom ends where defiance of authority and social disorder begins. The well being of any people requires that authority should be- respected and a condition of co-ordInated. industry should exist
 It has been said that we lose the peace of years while hunting for the rapture of moments. Unmindful that the source of happiness is within us we follow delusions in search of jov, We cannot seem to realize that happi- ness is the req ction7 of kindIiness. Happiness is only a. gem, of character Character is the dependable thing for man, the goodness of which makes life glow. Rapture flows into the hu- man soul that is in harmony with the laws of love. It's counterfeit is the Wilt the -wisp that half the giddy something to love and something to hope for gixeste life the full pleasure and freedom we oovet.
 We should not forget, as Meredith once declared: That we are our own fates! Our deeds are our own dooms- men! We cannot flee from the conse- duenees of our own acts--it is what we do by which the world knows what we are. It is in deeds man is most de- hc1ent- If the world was as full of good acting as it is of soood preaching 1t would be very much improved It1 does no good to praise the good we hear. and then to persist in departing from it. It is Billy Sunday who says:
 Any man who says the religion of Christ is easy is a iiar,oc.s The most dangerous thing today and for all past time has been living the truth The world does not want the truth
 1t was Goethe who said:. Each one sees what he. carries in his heart. but which is conscious of being heavily ourdened? He is keen observer who can realize what is going on without. to say nothing of what. is going on within There is too. little self-con- sciousn ess. It has become a recos- l nized fact that he, who knows him self, best underStsn nds his feliowmen. l It seems tos me that should each one of us in the future be confronted with the little meannesses of his own life there would be in the review and con- temptation of them, all the distress and torture necessary for huma n l soul Disloyal to our own eonsciences we go .through life expecting a re- 1
 
 are wholly un~>rthy.
 There is always pitfui aftermath 1 to war, and the most deplorable result | of this war is the depletion of the funds Of the aged who had just enough 1 to live on in pre-war times; but ,who ] now are forced 1to use their capf- 1 tai and have sno assurance that they will not :end their : days in. some | charita bie institution. They never are listed as wars victims: and they do l not know that the change in condi- tions has reduced their dependency by | half. They had been prosperous and | thrifty and never had a shadow of a | doubt but they had enough; but the | action of others. has cast a shadow of | perury over several million of these well-to-do and contented souls Wari kills and mains the conbatant and !! robs the noB- -combatants in all parts of the world.
 Do you know it is not deplorabie that we cannot see things alike If