Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS

f1eS the soul and fills the heart with l joy, there is gentfeness and peace. No | body can shut us out of these little l paradises but ourselves. They invite us to make the best, not the worst of life; and if we do not see that God has provided amply for the peace and joy of his children we have made our selves binder than souls like Helen Keller, who though she was born without mortal eyes. could learn the truth which made her free and made her happy. Why do we not recognize the free gifts Love places in our path We all know too little of the power of the mind, what it will do for our selves or for others. There is noth- ing miraculous about the fact that l the mind will do more for us and for tlothers than medicine Many people have by. a change, of thought habit
 taken themselyes to health from fin- validisin, and by concentrated aff1r3 | nations saved others from the error of their ways. < The affirmations are
 practical. never mind how dreamy one l thinks them to be, because they break
 up deterrent self consciousness and l correct faults for which we are re-
 sponsible. Good health as well as good business is the outcome of that which I is within us, Any physician knows that more people are made well by resolution than by drugs. The good doctor who cannot get your thought right has reason to question the eff
 cacg of. his remedies with you.
 | Do you know there is no law to be
 more feared than the law which is 1 unwritten Heaven decreed from the beginning that through crime no hap l piness should come to the human soul. A little dishonesty carries with
 it fear and worry and regret and bit ter tears. Ill-gotten gains haunt the soul who aeallires them as no ghost Of the imagination can. If transgress- ors were honest they would surprise us with the miseries they can reveal. 1 We talk about the law of the Medes and PersianS, but there never was a handmade law so strict as the Divine flaws by which man is governed. There is nothing we have to pay dearer for
 than for our mistakes. or our wilful
 misdemeanors, or. downright wicked ness. There is no escape from ones own self.
 There are treasures for the bank
 and treasures for the heart, and he who is without the treasures of the heart is poorer than he who is with l out money. Love and mercy and , charity are heavenly qualities and give to the soul character, as does honor honesty and fairness lend strength tC
 manhood. Man not only has to if heaven, but heaven must fit him. Re. pentance is revolution so far as the
 whole man is concerned; it is the be-
 ginning of righteous life and only
 the beginning. If one does right he is praying right ill action, and is likely [ to be right in his prayers; but persist ing in being poor, frai1 sinner ant 5 asking forgiveness every day is tn S action of a fool. The poor miserabl I sinner who whines about his miserie I is never a good example, but abide | constantly next door to the hypocrite Italy is illustrating that pledg I upon paper is not enough to fount '. permanent peace upon. Italy has ha, enough done for her by the entent
 nations not only to feel a deep sens = of obligation and gratitude. but t n recognize a sense of honor whic e should hold her true to the purpose
 of all, yet she is true only to self. Tn ., central empire marked her as a rene . gade when she finally joined the en ! tente, who saved her from the wrat n of her enemies, and now she is follow n ing her own desire, and inviting tn l. world to place her among the unde It pendable nations. Italy has yet | II learn in. moderation not in satisfyin q desires lies peace. It is covetousnes ,e the beginning and the end of the dev VI il's alphabet, which makes war contir uous. If the nations have not peaC e within themselves how can peace | % made permanent by treaty?
 Don't be pessimIst and think ever e bright day is a weather breeder, ( e that you were born under an unluck st star. or that life is 8 gamble and e1 le erybody has an ace up his sleeve bl IA you. 1 do pity those gloomy -minde W, dark hearted people before whose eye V impS' of darkness continually dane E. Your trend may be hereditary, bl II your vision is your own. No ma le should follow a depressing trail. sinz 1t We are ali heirs of the light, and wei s- made to know that the darkest clou ,t has a golden lining, and that enere ,+ and trust lead to spiritual light. Hol - is the only medicine for the niserabl u, and Faith is described as the penc It of the soul that pictures heaven oT things" These dispcllers of darkne III and guides to light and hope and lo7 er are free. Why reject such a gift al
 grope in the dark?
 Do not get the idea the Lord will ! . pleased if you tell him you are notl
 ing but worm of the dust! Remen or Der the Lord made the worms, and l r. knows that you are not telling u
 truth. Since we are all made in God
 image such utterances must make Il he Over-S Soul smile at that uncompl en fmentary style of self -abnegation Ma
 was not made to crawl, but to prepal
 himself for heavenly uses-to be trl
 son of God. How useless it is to te os the Lord what you be any way sint oA He knows what you be better tha
 you know youreslf. He knows wh
 you are, and what you want to be, af it what you will be. If you want to ] h. right you will be in harmony vii an Him, but if you declare you are on
 a worm of the dust, you are indult
 ing in a self debasement which is -v departure from all spirituality and r so ligion.
 a. There is a saying that God mat
 the Heavens and the Earth, and Il
 devil made the weather!" And tl1
 is believed by most people, and il on horny handed farmer knows it is $ lip The most treacherous thing in Il 'ds world to those who till the soil is Il
 weather. Cora Harris, who can far
 as easily as she can lead Methodi of class meeting, declares farming nv the, greatest gambling game on cart. ,to And the weather always plays it wi i a card up it's sleeve" The farm '"S becomes habituated to doing ever
 thing in. spite of the weather exec
 praying. About as far as man h tee got with the weather is when the pc its cock loudly bawls look out for ra lat and squalls!" All weather prophe to are careful to be indefinite to to d.
 and hour. As problem the weath
 beats the devil.
 ,ns Never conclude that any mode ent business has for it's foundation CT est Goioen Rule! Ihere may be so1