Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-05-31
THE MAN WHO TALKS

pected has been happening ever since |
| the days of Adam, and the unex- |
pected is luck according to its good !,
or bad character A clergyman told |
a man he heard cursing his luck, that
there was no such thing as hard luck,
and the wicked man came back with 1
| this: I've been trying to strike lie
on this place for the last five years
and have only struck water; but my
next door neighbor today tried tol
strike water and struck lie! What
| do you call it?" In this case it was
not the result of industry or efficiency,
| but what our forbears used to call "a
luck is very good word If you put
/ P before it, But then it has ceased
to be luck!
How often we quote in our optin
istic moments Everything comes to
him who Waits!' Does it? Not on
your life, unless he hopes for it and
works for it. There are conditions
affixed to everything acquirable in
/ life. The Lord did not pass out the
mama to the children of Isreal, for.
they had to walk long ways to get
to it, and then had to gather it up.
Nature shows up nothing in common
dation of idfeness. Idleness abides
next door to Inertia, or death; and
what death paralyses, Nature stokes
her fires with to put go" into new
life! What will not work in. one way
is compelled to work in another. Get
|, there!" is written all over the heaven
/ and the earth, and energy is recog-
nized as the source of success!
4 Do not let fear possess your soul.
Fear makes towards of men and an
gels of none. It upsets the mind and
breeds confusion. 1t may be. of use
in minute doses like poisonous drugs,
but taken wholesale it is killing. If
any one tells you to fear God it is
time to laugh Only ignorance fears
God-all should love Him. He hasn't
an evil thought against man, for He
is Goodness. We harm ourselves, He
will not harm. US. His will and wish
: is for our good and He Is not sending
US away from Himself. He offers to
man every opportunity to get out of
life the best there is in it for him
self. He points the way, and if YOU
are not in it YOU are losing every day
what he who it has to comfort him.
You have got to be a good sport to
get the best out Of life. Being a. good
S loser as well as a good winner. applies
4 to US all. First or last we all arc
t compelled to have the losers exper
g fence. Sometimes more is gained by
:, losing than by winning. Where some
: thing goes from us which is deplor-
abb it is up to US to see the vacancy
s is not filled with something regret
= able Do not acquire q bad habit to
:, make matters. worse No condition
= is irretrieyabIe unless one makes il
$ so. When good thing goes do not
+ let Worry and Fret get in, when you
= have the power to add something
= as good or better. You can be knock
{ ed down, but you can't be knocked
) out. unless you throw up the sponge
4 What is art with US is not art will
a bird, but instinct, we are told. A
II a camoufager man is in the infan
n class in nature, and yet. how it ha
d contributed to his fame for ability ant
a brightness by the use of this oil,
# natural method of protection. A robil
"a came into the yard and saw abuncl
- Of old dried cinnamon vines on g
- trellis, and he at once recognize
a opportunity and brings his mud an
1t makes the front Of his nest of thi
n refuse, and the nest is occupied an
/ not discovered until the young ar
Matched. This, TOO, right in the oper
There is embodied in this piece Q
work perception, design and decep
ton. qualities for which man is con
1t stantly praised Why is it instinc
= only in q bird? DO we not see in
r fear, guard and protection, home low
IN and loyalty. We can teach Natur
:, nothing; but she teaches. us as well q
~ the BIRDS most that we know. 800
We have all heard of the horrors
the front trench and the heroes VIII
IS went over the top, and given ther
At their need of praise; but do W
lg give thought enough to the woman i
r the front trench, handicapped by 81
S. children in the rear, and nenaced b
at a drunken husband in her front? Whe
i we are looking for the truly loyal pa
. tl'iots and brave we do not Away
Il, need look to the battlefield. Thes
souls are not even a rarity; but the
le are often gibed and jeered and frowne
l. upon LIES silent conflicts al
in marked by q heroism that suffers i
ct comparison with no other; and thes
ga heroes pass often unrecognized b
man. But how many of these herot
in common life come to know and fe
&c that the purple hills in crowns Of gol
a tell US God walks with us as H
Il walked of old
a. Human science has been defined
s. an uncertain guessA and in many il
it stances more cannotNbe claimed for
e. Man is so limited in his power til;
ID his science is often pretty thin Il
as is able to prick the surface of the cart
nv on which he lives, and is alwa1
l69-l10ths short of reaching the Ger
50 ter; and q number of trillions of mile
rs below the stars he loves to talk abou
re and he has to magnify germs from OF
On to ten thousand times to see the
ps with the human eye, and then he tel
al US of their dangerous character, whe
~ he cannot tell you of the 'dangero,
-, character of q clam. Who can der
science is a mere heap of facts, n
h0 golden chain of truths" No OF
would dare deny science has ACHE,
ed much in the way OF truth, but
is also guilty of teaching man tt
many things that are not So Y
c science is an improvement upon ii
r old mythology.
If there has been a greater probe
since the world was created for ma
Is to solve than the permanent al
on amicable settlement of affairs amor
lis men today, we are not aware of.
History discloses that there have bee
wickeder and crueler men than II
bit Kaiser, and that his ambition to ii
e. crease his power at whatever co
,ss has great-great- grandfather back
1t. Mans desire to excel may be Ike
respectable by honorable practices,
~, which he insists upon remaining
stranger. The right of. conquest is Il
~ wrong from which man has suffer,
" ever since tribal authority tried
make theft and murder defensibI
Virtue knows no dark by-ways. hon
is no crooked paths. What is the use.
ms crying "Police!" to make the wor
be right, when nothing but righteousne
can do it.