Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-02
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l Man talks a good deal about his I personal rights without being able to
 define them. Personal liberty is de- fined as the right to act without inter ference within the limits of the law. Personal liberty ends where it con- nicts with or denies personal rights of
 others Our laws are necessary to obtain orderliness in government, and | to guaranty our rights and to protect us in them There is no place where personal liberty is more frequently an nnKled than in the statutes. and this is why one-ha1f the law soon becomes a dead letter. The freest nation is the one which is blest with least law and authority. Personal rights do not rest 1 upon a do-as-you-p please foundation, but upon reason and justice-or true regard Tor one another
 There is no objection to be made to 1 the hanging of the portraits of the founders of this republic upon the i walls of our schoolrooms. but the es- innate of them by others is of more value. Charles James Fox said in the British parliament of Washington: ] Tllustrious man. deserving honor less l from the splendor of his situation than whom all borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance. Mirabeau told the 1 members of the French national as- sembly Ben Franklin was "the sage whom two worlds claim * one of the greatest men who ever served the cause of liberty and of philosophy" Of 4 Daniel Webster it has been said: He taught the principles of political union to his generation He produced those convictions which sustained the north in it's subsequent contest to maintain the integrity of the nation" Good reading for young Americans
 Strange, is 1t not, that no mans re- ligion can survive his morals although in some circles morals are Of so little account? Great minds have never put a low estimate upon good behavior
 Locke says: ITO give man a full knowledge of morality. I would send him to other book than the New Testament Charles Sumner de-
 clared: The true garden of humanity
 is in the moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the in
 tedlect Of man. And Bishop Wilson averred: Morality does not make Christian. yet no man can be Chris tian without it.'.. Ones estimate of morality is 3 true measure of himself. This is where man should constantly watch his step.
 have been among the green hills of the east for a few days with an ef- flcient guide. and learned, some of the wonderful performances of Nature. Tn the midst of a range of hills rose one higher than all the rest the compost ton of which was unlike that of any hill about it. and because of this it was declared to have been the first among the hills, a giant that withstood all
 
 through which the fertile valleys about it were being plowed up and the green hills being placed in har monious relation to- it: and upon whose summit the sun and the moon and the. stars have looked down for ten million years: which was older than Babylon when men and mice took possession of it. There like a cuckoo's egg in some other birds nest it must remain until the end of Time.
 We are now making spurt in this country to Americanize aliens to which there can be no objection; and do you not think it is about time to Americanize our schools so that they manners and L se1f-control and gov ernment and freedom and manual art that the sovereign citizen of which we boast with pride may be- come reality instead an ideal. Our boys and girls should be taught to know the principles of free govern
 ment and the rights of free citizens. The science of government was what Washington declared should be taught to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of coun- try Our schools are not producing sovereign citizens because they fol- low foreign systems, instead of becoming leaders.
 Since the Lord makes the days they must be perfect whether we get 153 days of sunshine at once. a years rainfall in a day. The wisest of us know what our needs are pretty we'll the earth are? Science has discovered for us that too much wet wea ther makes the earth sour. and unfit for farming; and. that drouths sweet en it up and restore it's power for good. Why the earth isn't run by the Lord like a well conducted Sun day school we cannot conceive, neith- CT can we explain why His lightnings C1r1 F. 1-- ~.I- el .v- steeples. From mans viewpoint there is bungling, but from His all things are good.
 If you are inclined to be frank in your speech it is well to first conffne your remarks to yourself Frankness and in the family it may easily drift to inpoliteness and brutality There is so much sarcasm in frankness that it really does not need special culti- vation. No doubt that old maxim: Least said.. soonest mended." is a blossom from this ancient. pestiferous family shrub Frankness in most di- rections is the way for fool to win a leather medal. Frankness is not en- tirely without respectability. but in all family matters. and most worldly re- fatlons a little frankness goes a. very great way.
 Somehow we seem to envy those per sons who can witness the sunrise and the sunset every Qdy. # CIV people re- alize that the morning has gold in it's mouth or that the evening holds in its brilliant close the assuring hope of a new Jerusalem. We do not look mp enough to glimpse the glory of the day of the night. Few see night draw her sable mantle round her and pin it with star. Constantly in His heavens God follows gloom with sunshine, just as he has foreordain- ed sunshine shall follow gloom in our hearts. The morning fresh and sweet and ipvigorsting stirs man to successful -endeavor. and the evening holds the promise of rest and re- cuperation without which life would lose it's charm.
 If you desire good company, just make the acquaintance of good and useful books. Among the best loves of this world is love of knowledge. and | in it may not only be found comfort ing thoughts. bRt the Comforter. him self. It is quite an accomplishment in.