Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS


hour has its problems and provoca-
tons; and our provocations and temp
tStions and cur duties. are all difficult
enough to meet and meet right if we
confine our earnest endeavor to the
hours of the day, rather than the days
Of the year. IF safety requires each
of us to look out for our step-to be
alert every ten Seconds-why should
not our conduct require to be guarded
every minute rather than every day.
We are none of US living perfect days,
but the nearer perfection today is the
happier the year is likely to be
come Self government calls for con-
slant diligence.
II we did things more sincerely how
much better it would be. We have all
been wishing one another a happy
New Year. 1t is splendid wish, but
to be effective it must be backed up
with splendid life. We should strive
not to do anything that will make the
year unhappy for those we so kindly
regard; and in this way we should be
assuring happiness for ourselves. If
we do not think of this, what an emp
ty thing a good wish becomes! We
are all more superficial than sincere.
We act in seemingly kindly ways
more from habit than conviction. We
should be studying to benefit rather
than to do our fellowmen. A good
wish calls for good will, and good will
for right conduct, and these promote
the good wish we express for another.
Do you know we are told it is a
sign of weakness to believe too much;
and that it is a sin to believe too lit
tie! This is where our judgment is
fearfully challenged, and most fire.
quently fails. 1t is far from an easy
matter to tell which is best. credulity
or incredulity, in many of the affairs
of men Man has an inclination to be-
| leve evil reports rather than good re-
ports concerning his fellowmen; and in
| all other matters he is more of an ag-
nostic than he thinks himself to be,
| He pretends to believe many things he
does not because he likes to be with
| the crowd and we'll thought of He
/ doesn't seem TO realize that he must
| give a reason for his belief as well as
for his unbelief, or that it takes some
| thing more than the endorsement of
truth to make it his own.
Can you imagine how Uncle Sam
| laughed WHEN Hoover exploded :
| Hoover is a patient man. and no one
expected him to throw rec hot ex-
pletivcs at the Germans, but when the
| audacious red-handed, !nercilesS
! agents of the German government
were named for him to parley with he
| took it not only as a personal ar
front but as an insult % the entire
| twenty seven entente flags which to-
| day condemn the autocratic ideas
which even beaten Germany is trying
| to keep warm and TO perpeuate. The
| world is dealing today with an unre-
petant Germany who still deems as
its best citizens they whom the Wort
regards as its worst. Germany mus
be taught new lessons along religious
and moral lines or she will become
less dependable and more Of a menace
to the nations than are the Turks.
We talk about having rermanen
| peace established by force, a police
world held down by organized nations
We act just as if we did not know
force never has and never will lead t.
permanent peace. Physical force i
not likely t. establish what mora
; power has failed to produce. TIL
power we are presuming to lely upol
/. TO establish reace is back of all tn
: autoCracy and slavery the world ha
ever known Tyranny and injustic
are recognized as its children. I'll
only foundation of permanent peac
dwells in Love and the human hear
5 When selfishress is dead. and we low
= our fellowmeG so that we would no
, 90 them harm the spirit OF peace Wi
, be installed 10 last; but there is n
: making the world good by threats o
, physical force.
Have you noticed how much we tai
, about the weather? While it is doubt
less all right there is nothing man
kind finds more fault with, or reall
= ! I-r,C oh = Two RI
} hot or TOO cold, too wet or too dry
/ or unreasonable - so slrshiny day
t are called weather breeders and we
days rot begttters. There had bee
, thousands of years Of weather befor
:, confervae, o. green scum, forme
upon the hot waters Of earth, and
must have been thousands of year
: more before sweet lush grass wa
ready for browsing animals. or fru
5 for birds: AMI man came last to fin
the things God had pronounced goo
not right, a. he has puzzled owe
i them a million years without reach
l ing a definite result The most h
can learn is that they don't suit him.
The leading Germans seem to b
pleased with the idea that there are t
! be no indemnities collected, and tina
only real claims for damages are t
be considered. 1t is apparent encus
c that no indemnities in the past hav
>. ever approached the total which thi
. bill for damages must aggregate. F'c
y ore item in France there is $4,000 da
stroyed factories, and this only rer
Il resents a small fraction CT the damag
d resulting from their ruthless policy
e that nation alone. Germany at tn
start of the war announced as It's Pun
= pose a destructiveness which wou1
~ horrify the world. and their succe!
. warrants that they should in turn
} hCrrified by the cost of their destrut
tiCn of non Combatants, churches, mel
g trail ships and lives, and their viol;
h ton of international law and human
= preCepts. The extremes Germany h;
e applied to others should be applied
her.
,e 1t is a good plan to keep two bea
J. in the family-bear and forbear. TT
= trials in any kind of a partnersh
- call for the exercise CT these virtue
ii What right has any of US to alwa,
expect tolerance from our partner
lie friend. 1t is pitiable to be associate
a with anyone who thinks himself pc
If feet There are times when silen
al is a delight and isolation blessin
There were times when Stevens
= sought isolation from 1imself-desir
~ to be shut up in his own craniul
III How rare is sweet reasonablencss
10 the begetter of harmony and peat
a. What is better than to be console
that we are not half as correct or hi
To as good as we think we be- Our co
I. ceit is enc of our worst enemies-o
- belief in the perfection of our condu
," If we know the other fellow is wro
eo it does no harm to let him find it OF
Self conviction is the best convict
es known in this world
In this world there is too much
ne for tat passion-"you Kick my dog a
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