Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 promise or something else! Mans ambition is to be smart; and no word in the dictionary cuts more ice in human thought than this! And what is smart is often very far from being good. There is such a fasci- nation about this word that it often leads professedly religious people far away from their ideals. The man or the woman who is smart. in hu man estimation, can never become quite as much of a sinner as those who are slow or dull. The competi- tions of life do not afford large op- portunity for innocence.
 Baroness Won Suttner declared that After the verb TO Love, TO Help is the most beautiful verb in thel world" And who can deny it? And what two verbs are more closely re- while To Love immediately prompts one to help. These are the alternat- ing actions which will produce such conditions as we attribute to the heavenly life we are striving for; but which made practical would produce a heavenly condition upon earth. This declaration of truth is good enough to be expressed in letters of gold, and kept posted where it could not be d century it has been hidden in book, and. is heard of only occasionally. But it must ever remain one of the sublimest truths ever uttered.
 Winnifred Kirkland, author of The Joys of Being Woman, was a min ister's daughter, and in looking back to childhood days remembered when she and her brother under parental discipline sat up thgiartulatedoUt? discipline sat up straight in the fam fly pew "as ramrods of righteous ness" And we venture to say there have, been thousands of 'ramrods of righteousness" in the pews of the past, with a likelihood of there be- ing fewer in the future. The relig- ious tyranny of the elders is to be charged in the past with having a measure defeated the purpose for which it was evoked. Religion ought to touch the child as softly as the hand of an angel touching a flower to have good influence upon it. Dis cipline may easily be overdone in many directions. Duty and discipline are badly overdone by many of our forbears.
 Freedom is religion; and the pur- pose of the best religion is to make men free. Caste or class does not represent the divine order. The Son of God claimed brotherhood and equality with all mankind. Quality 1 of blood is largely a myth with refer ence to men and beasts. There is everything in good breeding, but 1t has been d1vinely declared that men l are all of one blood. The Greeks used 1 to talk of ichor-the white blood of 1 divine beings-but the world has for 1 gotten it as a material evidence that men are divine. In this age men can only become divine by attaining the | divine level of a common brotherhood l one great brotherhood with God as l the Father Of Mani | Do not feel bad if someone calls you names. If God endowed us with a smile, man. condemned himself witf | this bad habit. It is in religious and 1 political contentious that calling names is quite common, and some | times very effective. Yuo have heard l of ''the idolators" and the 'airtights' 1 in religion, and the copperheads ant
 mugwunrps in politics, the quacks i1
 medicine and the trieksters in trade Why Miss Milford has been writer down asss'H'a- snug old maid, t and tn,
 renowneds George Elliet as the aherse faced swoman!" Haven't you noticed
 that in this world the inventors O JAShu1laSS ISCe1NG no FcWdTuS merit
 It is q lowbroW habit which shoul, really be ignored by sane folks. Som
 people have been called so nanysnaFne e that they haven't time to even notic theml
 1 A woman of note declared that mel should keep their eyes wide-open be fore marriage and half-shut after
 wards. This is because man dream
 while courting and after marriag
 wakes up. hence it is better that h should not find out how poor 6 dream
 CT he actually was. It is always bet
 ter to see more in ourselves to criticis than in other people, which, of course
 includes our partner. We must b
 quick to see things to praise and sloy to find cause for fault-finding. if " . would preserve the honeymoon, c make sure of the harmony .whic might be born of our good sense, 0
 adroitneSs. In mechanics it is grea to be a. keen -kutter," but in marie t life a little dullness tells for peac } To have a little suspicion with yo $ when wed means war a little later ol
 This is what makes man look seve
 years older the day after he is ma1
 ried.
 There is hardly warm season no that we do not have great argument
 in favor of Sunday games; and tt
 roughnecks favor baseball or footba, = and the refined, including some pal
 sons, stand for Sunday golf or tenni
 etc. There seems to be great difficult V in finding a game which fits Sunday Q and the negatives never seem to fir
 anything to suggest. On such a goo
 day only a good game is suitable, ar
 I have Wo-Aered why they do not re, :, ommend the game of good deeds, 1u t on the Lords day, doing little kint | nesses to people in. actual need. Tn
 might be recognized as a game whit - fitted the day, and one also ennobff1 IF to the human race. If man must pig " Sunday games, why not lead him in
 playing good game? -
 Without vision young and old lin I through life, declares an observer wi
 apparently knows the value of som u thing more than the landscape A wei '- founded hope may be as stimulatir
 as new wine. We are told in the Ne
 Testament that where there is no V e- sion the people perish. Without visiC j. there could be no purpose. It is wh; e- man beholds within which inspires u
 progress of generations. Man was el
 dowed with imagination that he mig, v always see the better way of livi1 1e and the better way of doing thing ,e Without imagination he would nev
 have dreamed of immortality; al
 without vision John could not ha,
 delighted the world with his descrij
 tion of the New Jerusalem. Tho D. who have eyes and will not see, b le come dead to the faculties whi,
 double the usefulness and pleasur
 of life.
 rel A great Frenchman said: No m; De can cfiFnh 011f hava1ld HEa fiDoi+e