Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS

buy happiness, and a feeling of secur- lty IS not foundation for it. It abides with the spirit of hope, and we often- est find it in the happiness of others or in steady occupation; and strange as 1t may seem we are never so happy as we want to be. or as miserable as we think we be. We may dwell with Joy in one hour and with Misery the next, but we can endure neither all the time. Service to one another is the handmaid of happiness; and so is the consciousness tSat we abide with God and that He abides with us.
 as planters? From the fact that they cannot digest fruit seeds. they become automatic agents for their own sup port. hence the wild cherry bushes and poison ivy which spring up be- side the walls and fences, and the re- newal of strawberry beds in wild lands. l have two rows of strawberry plants grown from seed dropped by the robins and gathered from beneath my trees, and the fruit is much larger and more satisfactory than that from the plants bought. So if the robins steal strawberries from my bed they have one compensatory hab- it. I never dreamed they would bring me new variety of strawberries, but have the evidence of their contri- butory work in the garden.
 How do you suppose it is life opens with hope to the human soul, and too often closes with avarice? It is the young man who feels able to cope with the world, and the old man who looks about him with envy. The man who gets millions always wants more; the man who is wise is always in his Fa- r1AV- 1 gratitude to providence; and the poor est man is he who is without money l or hope. We are up against the va garies of nature in all kinds of life | as we'll as in the agricultural life; and we do not know what she has up her sleeve for us. The rich want more, l the poor want more. and the tradi- i tional horse-leech wants more, and we can't tell tother from which!
 l love to work by the window where I can watch the birds, and only yes ] terday I had kingbird call. the first one in score of years. The garden is full of young robins, for since tLe cats. died in March. the garden s-.<ms l to be considered by the old birds with its dense borders, as a good and safe
 training ground for young robins, and there are new f1edglings in it every
 
 their own food and to fly. The other day I surprised the wren, and the lit tie duffer surprised me, for he fiuffed up and seemed to roll ever so fast te get away that he looked more like a fleeing rodent in the grass than he
 did like a bird. When he got ia,
 enough away he resorted to his natu-
 ral flight. The old robins are bringing
 sprays of cherries into the garden ant |
 the sparrows are training their young
 there. .
 Too many people in old age make themselves miserable looking back up
 on what they call a wasted life. Hay. ing neither become wealthy nor wise they are preparing to make them, selves miserable. Perhaps they art 7 just what God intended they should be; and perhaps they are not, | l takes all kinds of people to make { , world, and no man has ever becom, i. so good or so great as the man tn, :, world condemned to death. You dt not know how small you may be. o
 how great the other fellow is. Ther IS no way for you to find out Mel are not born with the same energy t power of perception, or ability to d 7, things. We are talked to about ou oduolIty' put no one mas ever dis o covered it yet. although the leader of men are trying to find it in de sents Gods supreme creation, and mocracy.
 Man flatters himself that he repre that he is the master of all things cI
 earth. Provided this is true. wha has he to show as a. result? Look e ing at the world today, just as it is. h = IS the monster among all created be }, lngs. If he has been made master O f all things created, he is not maste
 of himself; and in cruelty and ra paclousness toward one anothe
 man seems to excel all other crea = lures. Favored with knowledge " f must recognize him as a master C n artificialities and systems whic q make man victim of his own cun " oeVll, and seldom blossoms into saint
 nlng. He can be as perverse as tn
 hood. His supremacy ends usually i y an abust of the power God has give 1t hims
 e A religious friend of mine once ra U a rantankerous brother-in-law WI l. fairly crazed him. Perhaps you ( n not know what rantankeroI 2 orother-in law is. He is the husbar
 of sister who insists upon being
 law unto himself. He drinks and I
 gambles and he has so many De,
 hapses mixed into his life that pe] e haps he comes to his meals and pel it haps he doesn't; and perhaps !
 comes home at night. and erhaps I
 doesnt; and perhaps he comes hon , sober and good natured, or perhaps I ia doesn't! In his distraction he or ls day said to me: "Oh. I've asked G l. in prayer to make an end of him mar
 |
 prayer?' said I. With earnest emph; .e sis he said: T dol" Then WI 1t haven't you asked God to make hi IS a good man, as He could do it just :;
 we'll" "By George" he replied,
 never thought of that,"
 l. A great many people live and d ,e thinking they believed things whit 10 they never did. You can't take tru
 on trust as you might barrel of a,
 pies. or ten dollar bill You car
 steal truth, but you can delude you 9d self by the thought that you have 5 Truth is not inert for it is energet le and inspiring. You must not only DO
 sess truth, but truth must posse
 you, before you can come into spiri D. ual harmony with righteousness m When truth possesses you it compe -, you to be loyal and act it sccordi, y to your power of perception It is b is cause you possess it and it possess
 you that it has the power to make V
 free. It was not believe. but know [ it truth and it shall make you free! Of We have often heard it said: "N v- ture is full of surprises and S m stimulates the brightest workers in t
 land to thought. There is the m
 who feels proud to keep his little ga he den as clean as a ballroom floor, a when he thinks he is great succe because his friends come and prai De his industry and achievement. so1 ar day he is. surprised hv co,or,
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