Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

mere was a preacher who said :: Live truth and thy life shall be the best creed!' In other words, live right and you will escape all the pains
 and perils of living wrong. Pay strict attention to your protesting stomach and your protesting con good friends, and you treat them as though they were your enemies. They
 disclose the law of your, being more fully than doctors, books and they serving law. How we disregard the sub conscious warnings against self abuse' and eif-delusion. We can go
 on as we please. and pay the price of our offences, which we cannot es- cape. ss
 The liquor that talks mighty loud
 when it gets out of the jug has been
 barred; aAd the drink which first aims, then darkens, then deadens and
 then damns" a man, has been prohib-
 ited by law; and the drinkers must
 now resort to near beer or patent med
 icines. From this drastic action of the government many men may dis cover that the outside of the saloon fountain in its resourcefulness is wonder worker. The criticisms of the law by the frequenters of saloons are not half as surprising as the utter ances in their favor by, a vast army
 of people who fnever .darken their doors. Those who profit by the sa- loon form a larger force than it takes to run them.
 Few people know how to make the most of a vacation, and many, by their indulgence in unlawful pleasure become afflicted with lawful pain. It is just as necessary to know how to deal with pleasure as it is to know how to handle gun, for when pleas ure violates 'tis then: a vice-and vengeance. too!''. The time to take pleasure is when all other duties, are done; and the way is to keep moder- ation in view, for indiscretioil in any direction is perilous. Man has to work and play, and sleep by law, and eat, and study and pray for if he over does in any direction he becomes a victim instead of a success :s'-
 In nature little creatures conserve their energies by flying straight If it was not for this the bee hunter would not so easily find the bee-tree would not have invented the. phrase
 Bee-line" for ways that are straight The humming birds when there are no obstacles in the way make straight for. their nests. going with such speed they arc difficult to follow; and the -wrens shoot from the hole in their>tiny box es like shot from a gun, and fly in straight lines from their feeding places to their tree The t1un1nipg- bird moth has this same darting,
 
 es indulge in no false motion but make every movement tell in their be- half.
 You are puzzled when you read about the great blessings of life. Don't you know health is the chief of bless ings; and that knowledge is next. for lack of knowledge men die? A good appetite and good conscience are blessings which aid in the. develop ment of man. The eyes which look q r-- will to help and never to hinder are God sends. It is the easiest thing in the world to have qualities money cannot buy, and comforts riches can recognition and acceptance, and you ike the rest of us, are too dull to value or appreciate them. The best -hings on earth are freet Get, them!
 Fellowship seems to be one of the great essentials of life. Haven't you noticed that no man desires to go to ] the devil alone. The erring ones 1 usually Invite. company. and get it, 1 Man doesn't like to be alone As coleridge puts it in the Ancient Ma l liner there is no. fun in being Alone | llone-all. all alone: alone on a wide, | vide seal" It was Isaak Walton who 1 declared good company and good dis l curse to be the sinews of virtue.' | owship in grief. in misfortune in hame; but it has been discovered that 1 le is never alone who is accompan-I ed by noble thoughts or who views | Natures revelations of beauty with everence. Who can be alone where tod is?
 How many people in the world turn heir eyes and their thoughts in their evction toward the holy land appar- ] ntly unmindfut of the fact that the. nost God -forsdken and unprogressive ortion of the earth. Man was com handed to reverence the living truth s demonstrated by Jesus not holi- ee beautiful plant or shrub develop T the garden, and at last present toi jew a wonderful flower or luscious ]. ru1t, and seem to hear the spirit say 3 D you. Remove your shoes, for To: ou are standing upon holy ground.' What God produces must be divine nc ground in which His mysteries are must be holy. Holiness is xpressed by life as much as by vir- le; and it is the things which live ruth that must raise us up.@ r.
 l have often wondered why our chools are not. based upon the idea of moving every man is a sovereign citf- I en by producing sovereign citizens, mericanize aliens; and aliens do not i, nd the job of sovietizing our citizens ificult. Sovereign citizens in fact as rell as in name could not be led into ne paths which lead to revolution and narchy as readily as they be if our herished ands affirmed idea of man. ood was produced as a practical re- ut of our teachings. Our sovereign itizens should know more about gov rnment and mechanics and a thou and and one other: things to make the more capable and dependable , 1an the citizens of any. ether cotin- { y. Can democracy produce sovereign Itizens? 7-a sa. s.- II
 At last someone has risen to say: Common sense. is. a; national asset"
 certainly would be an au-the- world sset if there was enough of it to go ound; but one of the most uncommon 1ings is common sense. What is com ;:N lon sense? It isn't pep" but it is a l alance for pepl It is-4 nationality. As Id Calvin Stowe once said: Common ense is the knacl1 of seeing things as ;Ee icy be, and doing things as they EE ught to be done.i It is not to :be ' 'und in a League of Nations, which Fl ould keep mans unrighteousnesses as s ley be. for it would make all nations T