Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 something of everything. The one thing not to be afraid of is books The one thing to be afraid of is self. There is no book so bad there isn't some good in it; and no book so good there can be nothing bad in 1t. It is the purpose of thought to protect reader from all that is perhicious in books, and to detect the good in any book. It has been said for a truth that lyzed is better than a whole volume carelessly read A knowledge of men and of countries and pf sciences ana phiiosophies give to the mind a broad CT view of life and a larger knowledge of the creatures of God.
 It was the Duke of Wellington who said: When you turn over in bed it is time to turn outi" We recognize that this may be good rule for some folks and a very bad one for others. Napo- leon was another extremest with ref etenee to, the bed. for he said: The bed becomes a happy luxury to me. l would not exchange 1t for any throne in the world" A good warm bed is always a challenge to rest in cold weather, and of very much less conser quence, when the days are long and sunny and the nights short. Doubtless half the world spends too much time in bed; and few, like Edison, can be satisfied with four hours sleep !. in twenty four. It was Fuller who called attention to the fact that Sleep IS d shrine when the church itself is cem- etery, where the living sleep above the ground and the dead do beneath It." It is strange but true that man should not be too quick either to. be- lieVe or to doubt. The truths which are most precious to man cannot be given to him as one would give him d book. Every man must make truth his, or 1t does him no good. The truth as represented by someone else will not make any man free. The truth which is seen in us is the only truth | which gives evidence of our worth. or l lack of it. Mans way is straight and narrow way because truth cannot l be crooked and he who lives right | finds the, joy of righteousness sirri- 1 cient. What man truly believes he de- l sires to demonstrate hence belief IS back of all mans actions, and is the foreruhner of success, He who pro ] claimed "I am the way" challenged the I-am-nes of every human soul!
 l There is an old saying that The wf1o l green" or. in other words. prolongs his misery, just as sure as she who hugs an asp to her bosom will get l stunS. It is counting ones wrongs that multiplies ones misery, and makes 8 rtiffian or a llinatic of a person. This l is the compensation for folly. and the | price is steep. Man pays a high price for all his meanness and they reaci 1 so they do him more harm than any
 one else. Hating people blights the | hater and seldom disturbS the hated l lxUp pn orn of fI7a . titude and would not care if they werf
 aware of it.
 There is no doubt that every orea
 ture God has made has spark O 1 awareness for it's protectioni and il the light of it makes many escapei from disaster. It is most apparen
 in the feathered tribes who are aler and agile to sounds as well as sights 0 every nature. The sparrows aon1e to a marrow bone in great number
 at the back door upon the grass whiel
 they seem to enjoy as they. do lurn
 of suet in cold weather When the;
 look up and see a kitteis face in tn
 window, they immediately lose tliei
 appetites, and one by one fly away ; and they do not risk i Fetnfh fo many hours afterwards. They nee protection from n9 cfe&tbFe more tia | royi!lg hGys and mcp whonh the stat | 1 licehses by the thousand to kl] soiii
 ever coines within gunshot clothed i fur or feathers.
 | do not think it makes much differ eace whether tie first rnan was red C black; but the evolutionists have t have something to discuss, and the tI are now affirming that the first ma was a black man, and that the whit 1 race IS the result of the. marriage { altnos in the misty past and that th
 eradations of red or brown betwee
 white and black are really due , varieties of climate. It is jus as. eas to believe the first man was a ] amoboe, that one-celied luE7p of iel1 r at the bottom of the sea. from whic g evolutionists tell us all cellular ii a has proceeded as that he was an al 0r an image or a Frankenstein, in1 , which was breathed the breath of If There Is one thing only certain and is this: He knew less than the me . of today and had less to answer for. The salvation of the world will nj ,. come in answer to prayer unless ma = acts as he prays. What men in trat = and everywhere else need today is
 endowment of common. sense. u | represents cause and effect, ard
 action is followed by reaction. If. ma
 only produced conditions there wou 8 be no cohseduences; but he is alwa, r forced to meet the effects of his deed
 and to correct or annul them. We a
 momentary creatures of the law a, # pay least respect to the laws which a U of most consequence to us! The fieI $ of competition in this world are battl
 fields, and if we could behold the s
 and the slain because of this life u trade, the world would be appalle V There is bludgeoning in trade as W,
 as blackjacl1ing in the world.
 The world unrest which Is nc
 menacing all nations is not charseat
 to any one class of citizens. but to t 't selfshness and injustice of this al
 past ages. We all should recogni
 that the coal strikers are not diggii L. down into our pockets anywhere ne as deep as are tlre coal barons; t 0i workmen and the contractors are j. allied for profits; and capital is co
 centrated to create big business to t
 disnay' of small producers Tie spi ,e of the hog, instead of the spirit = Christ, prevails, and the natural che III upon 1t is resistance, which we e IS revolution. Holding this class or tn
 class in abeyance is not going to GU
 the evils from which the world is sl ra fering. What the world calls misch ,- in this light. afterwards becomes re ognized as virtue.
 It was Jean ingelow who thank
 God all her prayers had not been a
 swered; and hers is a. good examl se for all of us. for there is nothing vs man can do more like a fool. especi; of ly, when he has a bouquet of it
 words to present the Lord with |
 void of feeling in his heart. It is fact that prayer be made a b rs habit by the thoughtless and irreve Id ent. It seemed P be. foolfshness. Id ask God to change the weather sir
 He knows the needs of the earth, a