Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

make them so. It is hard to explain, but it is none the less fact, that | we are more prone to see. and dwell | upon the ugly than the beautiful. We | are very much like the old lady who | enjoyed very poor health" Things are allowed to exist in every city | that dispute our claim to being a civ l ilized people, and in no way more ire quently than the outrage offered to the beautiful. Convenience, utility, l comfort and sanitation are carefully studied in this progressive age but not color effect and symmetry. Jachin and Boaz, twin pillars of the Tem- pie, were not finished until the lilly work pomegranates' had been cary- sense was not gratified until beauty had been added to strength
 It may be that lack of cultivation has blinded our eyes to see the beau ty which many common things pos | sess. If We would only use our eyes alright we would see beauty here and l now right about us. As you looked | from yoar window the other morning l did you see this tough old winter
 fairly rioting in it's white prismatic
 forms It certainly needed Ruskin's
 vivid descriptive, power to paint the
 scene Correctly. Shrub and tree were 1
 pure whiteness-until Old Sol put an
 end to the glory. It seemed as though | the snow was trying to redeem it's lost |reputation. Now if you did not see I it, and wasn't thrilled by it, You missed
 a really beautiful thing. Sir John Lubbock in his Pleasures of Life" !" | gives us this bit of advice: Many of
 us, however. walk through the world Il like ghosts, as though we were in it, but not of it. We have eyes and see not, ears and hear not We must look I before we can expect to see. To look is much less easy than to overlook, and to be able to see what we do see,
 is a great gift.'
 The value of many things is deter mined by the conditions under which 5 they appear. Change the condition, or form of appearance, and you have , something totally different in effect :, Fire, for instance, burning in the par
 Tor grate, giving comfort and cheer to the home. is one thing; but fire
 getting beyond control and burning :. up your home is something entirely v different. The thin coating, of ice
 that makes tree and shrub a mass of glittering Splendor in the sunlight . is something else when competed in
 to the avalanche slipping down thu $ mountain side destroying property s and life; or, when it takes the form e of sheet ice and hugh icicles over . hanging a crowded street. During th a | thaw last week a mass of ice sho IF from the roof of tall building ol : one of our main thoroughfares mar $ rowly missing a passerby. It crashet U to the sidewalk with an impact grea e enough to have fractured the skull o Il Ia Hottentot. Suppose somebody tha' e been killed-it is a wonder tha e somebody was not at least hurt I, would the law have regarded tn = owner as guilty of criminal negli 10 gence? Can property owners be to ; careful in these days of unusua '- danger? Unusual weather condition al simply call for unusual vigilance O
 the part of all.
 Do we realize that natures mos
 potent forces are quiet? They wor ,-j noiselessly. The weaker thing " Nhe- more frantic is the effort for sell ' advertisement, We know that som - things exist only because they tell | ls' so. We know where the mountai 1e brook is long before we see it, by Il re noise it's shallow waters make SC plunging over the rocks, but the Mi: 1n sissippii, still and deep, is might ,x The very gentlest breeze makes u -7 pine forest rustic, but the measurele r. forces that move sun, moon and sta es around their respective pathways a, inaudible. D We, not see an exa IT, parallel to thie fr' '------~~ action? Mi
 s lawyers. platform orators al : public speakers 1tuy, pound u | desk and grow red in the face just to proportion as their subject matter no thin and watery. Self seeking col W gressional melodies, fearing that the ed enforced quietude in Washington ma m be rightly understood at home, beg ar, to send obituary notices of dead con - rades, or ancient garden seed, to" the ell constituents, to show that they al es alive, and that the time for renomiI at ation and re- election approaches. IT is distinction between motion and pow is still holds.
 we Every now and then we have us outbreak of religious controversy. T a day, as heretofore, it is each of t ne sects that is the peculiar custodian .sk divine truth it is each that st yet holds the one and only key that e icb solve sthe mystery of prophecy. T 'oA one thing that makes the discussi Ip- tolerable is these disputants are
 of them honest, sincere and intense tvs earnest men and women. Each ia ef- to see how any intelligent person c TO- call his distinctive view non- -essenti isa Does he not take the Bible just af it reads? And is not the Bible 0I plain that "the wayfaring men. thou aC7 fools, shall not err tIlerein?" o la can easily see that the ethics of is ligious controversy have changed l eht little since the Middle Ages, and tl ore the Bible, with all it's alleged clar .an of meaning, is still the bone of cc
 tention among those who suppose
 ly love one another. One is temp
 to ask if it is possible to have a star
 ard that shall determine what is will sential and non essential in belief yer saftea onf ee'5i' ;I a .liat we can all come
 union? As it now is the outsider i
 little perplexed, and may be pardC nen ed if he asks with Pilate, What her truth?" In view of this confess of of tongues was not Baring-Gouid
 little premature when he wrote
 splendid hymn: Like a Mighty Ar nos Moves the Church of God!" Does
 of nnestion % of ..fba olai c,Tiolt over ongl With all great movements +o tbe c
 trary, we are still a mighty dista
 away from those desirable twin cit No Brotherly Love and Christian Uni ling Huro.n ac+;on raeu,+e F.o
 snly working of two directly opposite fc .A es. We call the one impulse, the ot
 motive. Impulse is. characteristic is certain dispositions ad temperance the It is feeling transformed into act last without lnought- someone has s
 @ wise man is t.1at ''the fool spe # and thinks afterwards, while the ' man thinks before he speaks ton less the heart is of the ripht Sor+