Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l lf1Gs MAN Wf1O l ALA0 Don't you think this would De a diff ferent world if men believed in Good as they believe iii .themsefves? Man errs in that he is prone to glory over what he has instead of what he is! When it comes to values, man can with ease prove himself out of sight of wis dom. The reason self-control is such cause so few are capable of it. The real glory of life is the mastery of self, but poor deluded man thinks it rests in the mastery of everything else. Our self deception led up to the say ing: If you could buy a man at his real worth and sell him. for what he thinks he is worth. you could make a fortune We fill life with bubbles which do not have the merit of being irridescent. Our ego is so large and dense it casts a shadow which hides the Divine One!
 Do you realize that love lives? And
 love has lived from before time was,
 and will live when time is no more.
 Love appeals to love. and the force of
 sweet love thoughts perused on the
 printed page creep into our hearts and
 give us thrill and bring tears to our
 eyes Love is an active force. and
 moved although it is not of us but
 from a foreign source. We recognize
 love in action and in print; and it
 was Holmes who declared mo loves
 
 magic of the Iove-thoughts we all
 yield to in one way or another. all
 though this is something none of us
 can fully understand. But true love
 last with some people, but the love
 which giveth itself and endureth for
 ever.
 You feel mean this morning and
 your thinker is as useless as the pen
 dulum of grandfather's clock, which
 has not been oiled for twenty years.
 Man is so constituted that he must
 think right to feel right. That thinker
 can make things look black that are
 golden. The mind is the greatest
 wizard in life. It can construct rain
 bow bridge for you to your heavenly goal, or open an abyss for you at the
 bottom of which your arch enemy, he tells you. awaits your coming. It can
 take the rainbow out of your sky if you will let it and make every day in your life gray day. As a man think. eth in his heart. so is he!
 Half the world does not know how housed and we'll clothed and we'll fed is far from being all of it.. We must
 besides this learn to enjoy what we have now instead of living in fear of what may happen by and by. We must be able to total the good things we have reason to be thankful. for and to never know the total of the things which annoy and grind Some people nurse their sorrows just as if they enjoyed misery. Life is smooth for no one, but it jolts some worse than others because they keep conscious of the jolting. Forgettable things are best forgotten.
 You would not think from the way men are. acting today that the sal vation of the world depends upon the practical equipment of the people with a little sound comm bh sense. Nothing is built up which is of value by contention. Every great and use full advance made since time began has been attained by, harmonious ac- ton. Old Money Bags was tyrant of years before Dives was ever heard Of. He originates noth- ing, but grabs and holds everything he toiler that the world depends upon. not the profiteer; and God would all people from bondage. Tt is long, long way to Tipperary," but the race is going to finally get where love is despite all handicaps. ing through the valleys of New Eng land and adniring her green hills, that they are older than the Rocky Mountains These immense mounds were once twice their present height and jagged. and Nature with her frost and heat. winds and weather, has ground them down and snloothed them off. turned their sand into 1oam
 
 es and shrubs and trees until they are the beautiful and productive hills of today. The ice -bergs. Gods great blows. helped to give depth and grace l of outline to these entrancing valleys through which the present generation | is autoing- And when these great | cycles of industry are complete we find the sweetest flowers closest to the | ground, and the choicest food within | it.
 N xI- simply consists of finding out things. I The power of expression is not con fined to talk or noise. How the birds | thrill us with their songs. the flowers charm us with their fragrance, the | -rees delight us by their grace of form | one little creatures delight us> with | heir bri1liaT1cy of color Everything 1 n the universe appeals to mans cu- | -iosity. and the mole in his way is as mpresseS us with her silences and | challenges us to listen, [ md to learn all that we possibly can. | Tn the tinfest plant at our feet is ex- pressed the complete miracle of life Man is closer related to all things in | fife than he really seems to be aware | ,f, for there is a sympathetic relation 1 between him and all living things. l
 Here 1t is mid October and the 1 ,hickadees have arrived in force. The ] d faces storm and stress with all the | rest of us. He has a written history 1 Is having been under observation here ! Or 197 years. He was doubtless here l hundreds of years before Americus | discovered the New England | coast; and perhaps called chick -dee- | lee to the Scandinavians under Eric 1 the Red when they made their first l settlements on the coast of Maine He | $ the gay and musical sprite that | aces winter snow squalls and becomes ! 50 friendly that he will eat from the l hands of those who feed him. His i 1ainty plumage and his trustfulness i make him a favorite with bird lovers | the country. i
 The coming winter is to be an ex- l ceptiona1 winter. with SllirtsIeeyes | weather in January and butterflies and 1 in February. Do not | .hink this is a prophecy. for it isn'ti i It is only a general forecast of what | h e he from