Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

alWayS QO that, put discovered l l could prevent their making me wrong. and 1 tell you that was worth a good 1 deal to me! We can protect ourselves from evil. and let me tell you right l now, that bad thinking is one of the I worst of sins. It is a bad habit to shift our aff1ictions off upon our friends or associates. or upon the Lord, when the truth is we are responsible for most of them ourselves. We meet but few an- gels in the way of life. and since they have claimed angels have whiskers am not sure have ever met one. Those who come to. realize that all animate life is wondrously beautiful are fortified against the shadow of gloom and its consequences. Appeal ing to you and l. someone has said: You are beautiful; you were born beautiful-beautifui in body. as sin soul; beautiful with the divine beauty and image of the Eternal.'' Mans in- l heritance is a realm of beauty, for the earth beneath. his feet teens with | beautiful life, as do the oceans which contribute to it. and the skies over | head which are studded with stars and nightly declare the glory of God. Somehow T Am seems to be written upon everything God has made from. | the electron. which is 800 times smaller l than the atom. to the sun, which Is million times bigger than the earth. Living with Beauty. who should be diseonsolate?
 | We should not forget there. is an in- | toxication which is not of the cao, but of the brain. We become intoxicated with conceit and with power Those drunk with coneeit cannot come to rishteous conclusions, and those drunk 1 with power are far from just in action, | The int torn af s. .<,s.,- palling, and there Is nothing from which he suffers more The whole world has been upset by the intern- perance of men for the past five years, and the period of insanity has not vet ended; and the effect of this debauch indulged in by the central empire of Europe will not have completely dis2 appeared a hundred years hence. The world has to pay dearly for this intem- perance which has charged to 1t the crucifixion of the. Savior and the per secution of the righteous all down the ages. @F Perhaps you do not know the short paragraph is both ancient and honor able. Fables of Aesop, which were | written 500 years before the Christian era, are so brief that 425 make only 334 pages, with the accompanying modern illustrations; and the fables or para : bles of scripture are even shorter and contain more important lessons. Who
 can tell whether Aesop should be
 prized most for his wit or his wisdom
 The Ten Commandments leave ne
 doubt that Moses was a. first cla s. s paragrapher, and doubtless the Colder s Rule is the most renowned and effect 3 i've snort paragraph ever voiced o, k committed to paper. The short para . graph Is one of the most vererabl, ] things of which we know. nl he fact that man is considered ; d reasonable being tends to increase ou ] conceit If we do not become consciou : mat he does the most unreasonabl things. Reason is one of the word . man has found it most difficult to de y me, such as love and religion. By tn e ald of reason man has become con 6 nrrned in the most unrea sona h}e The
 ories. That God made the world in si V | days and rested on the seventh repre e sents the reason of scripturaI writers : put the reason of the scientist assure t- him the world made itself in six hun
 dred million years. Man in. req so 1t nnds he can't get along without Goo L. and in reason he also finds he doesn
 need an Overriding Power We ar p assured the best evidences. of man, 70 reason are the public statutes which I
 
 in so often unreasonable that if is elusiy, s Do you realize that it does not mak ,- any difference how little any of us ma d know about God. He knows all -abor IF us? We do not have to be cross-exa
 ined in order to see how we stand ;. relation to Divine truth and order, Tn
 worst thing which we shall have i su face Is ourselves. for our record wi le reveal to us that there has been a very wide difference between what W To thought We were and what we actual ct be- Well done. good and faithful SC, .y want goes to no sort of professio but to real self-abnesation and kind deeds. There is no. palnoine of fl ne froth for the substance. for the Fan r. 1ess of us all is the only real thin d. Penltence is the saving grace but tn ed consists of more than words.
 at Sometimes a good thouqht finds % welcome in our minds. and because ed 1t we sense or realize many things ' ye never have sensed or realized befol
 And yet we keep such poor record 0s ourselves that we are thrilled by il
 credulity when we hear. someone sa, r The truth is ilfuminatingi" stat
 inent or actual fact we readily inte
 pret as an illusion or figment of t' inauguration. We all of us seem
 A0oi b4lC tIuln Hnen II conflicts
 our preconceived conclusions, when
 should welcome 1t the more when th n- which Is false goes down before if ut is more than prboable, if thoughts we
 not closely related to one anoth,
 there could be no such wonderful rev
 lations as men get once in a while. q olt abides with us whenever good does. ''S Do you ever wonder who are t
 happiest people on earth? There is
 average of happiness somewhere pie be found, as there is an average ing everything else. Sixty centuries :. life have revealed that Happint
 does not dwell with the rich any mo
 than with the poor. The rich SC. e4- to have comfort without hope a we the poor hope without comfort, T ng. middle class are said to, get most IT
 terial joys from life because amo ncA them the average of comfort a tel1 pleasure is greatest; but it seems stI, if those who get the vision of the N
 Jerusalem as St. John did, and
 alive to the material pleasures and
 spiritual promises, must be the hs ce- piest people on earth, for they SCI had most to enjoy and to be thankful f be- We have all of US read of the
 trancing attractions of the Open Ro;
 but not of the Open Road John Ox, ,est ham saw, of which he wroee: Ss.ToF aid cry man there openeth a way. /: ,rlv ways, and a way; and the high $
 climbs the high way. and the low s
 gropes the low; and in between,
 the misty flats. the rest drift to : else fro. But to every man there open in high way and low. and every n on decideth the way his soul shall 2 a.ss It is in this free choice we disco
 destiny. The signboards are all 0.