Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS.


 preservers. While the tasks of life are many and perilous there is np doubt the greatest danger turks in idleness. No observing man can conclude that work is a curse, for it has raised man from the cave to the palace, and from plodding over the open roads to travelling the uneharted air. Work has made earth multiply it's products and yield it's, mineral resources to the hand of man. The great religions of earth, if in, spired were made what they be to- day by work. We have been blessed by labor, and the fonly thing which makes it seem oppressive is the rneanness of man. It has been said: "A Christian spiritually will depend as much upon his work, as his work depends upon his spirituality
 There is no. doubt we. all err in the walks of life, and those who are sure they never do, are getting in the was inspired to say: ITO err is hu- man; to forgive divine" The most m;schievous blunderer is he who is telling half the truth in; perpetuating the most enduring lies. 7tFhe4 greatest fault is not to be found in error, but in a disposition to sneak out of it. When our upriKhtness ist challenged we demean ourselves by not remain ing local to it.. One of. the common est errors is an attempt to cEiticise or judge the errors of others. There are doubtless many errors man is wholly incapable of Identifying, and he is often in danger of affirming that er- TOT in truth.
 I suppose the fellow who wrote flor some not to be martyred is, mar ! sy 4nT there are lots of mortaIs who are yearning for what would not be good for them: and if confronted with it I+they would not want I think it is much better to be one of our Heaven 1 ly Fathers happy children than to i be one of His poor thinkers who somehow cultivate the thought that i persecution has goodness beaten in l the line of rewards. It is best to do i what is right without thought of the i schedule of rewards. Motive cuts a i big figure in the affairs of men, but l in matters of religion it should count small.
 SeIf esteem is a bar to self improve 1 ment. Self examination is the direct road to the Improvement of man. The (better one knows himself, the more aware he becomes of his needs; and
 
 ] greater is the Sshrinkage from true 1 manhood. Man is called selfish, |" we i are told, mot for attending to his ow1 i good but for neg1ecting his neigh bers." The man whof never has ar | accounting with himself. who never 1 takes an account of stock or works ouf
 a true balance. is liable to some da5 1 awaken to. his own bankruptcy. I | doesn't pay to be too pleased witt J,, knowledge Of your status before Got l and man. Our opinionS of self art ,l likely 10 surprise St. Peter!
 1 It is wo-der b me that doctor
 once in 9. while. does not look pa.
 tient in the eye and say: You eat tot much! And you exercise too littlet'
 If this was said by nhvsicians to aI 'S who deserve to hear it. we should b surprised by the number who are tn 1 architects of their own misery. suppose the most improbable thing } physician could do would be to tel I his patients the unvarufshed truth. ; s doctors eve. is not an enigma to me : for it flashes a wireless: You're fool, and I know it" If I did no 7 know it, too, perhars could not cato = the doctor get fs by without our cor S recting our haHits; but science ca . teach him no way to do it!
 i Do you koow. it. is not the year s which make the man but t1e man wh r makes a record of the years It is nc e time but action which counts. It :, l what we do which shoyvs what we ar IT We are guilty of eraggerating value II in our estimate of men. Tn repute tn
 scholars are on top. but the cook 2 frequently draw. 1arser. salaries. Drr . ing the war in london good cook q drew twice the nay of good bank off n press advised to learn to cook A zoo e preacher isn't of quite as much in sl portance in winter as a good boot 5 maker. T7he world can get along witt out preaching better than # can witF T, out boots. The essentials should con y first, hut we do not always find thei e in their order. t.- e The spirit of unrest which is man d fest i1 all parts of the world is tI
 effect of a cause-a condition whie l. much be reTneCied. It is time II
 under-dog idea was lost sight of. ar e that men dealt with one another in le spirit of fairness. It is the autocrac Id Of class and the autocrqev of laG9, mi which are producing the condition j. which end Tn violence Men seem te have lost their grip upon good fellow ar ship, and the sane methods which te ,, for order, thrift and prosperity. TT 44 relations of capital and industry a1 lo material and values are out of balare le Until man becomes rational nethiI
 can become normal.
 There has net been a winter f
 years when the birds of New Englal have been driven to such straits f 7 food as they be today, not only t small winter birds. but the crows al IS the blueiays are keeping tab up
 the refuse to be found in hen-pens.
 present the starlings Outnurnber ;; Id other birds at the baek-doors r of sparrOws are abo1t as numerous ,r normal. but the go7d finches aregn
 tably ahsent. and the slate color
 snOwbirds fewer than usual Tim are so hard with tho population ot the woods that the crows are seeki n garbage in city facFvards. It is me of ciful to feed the birds.
 It is an open euestion whether a
 one in good health has the blu ch However, gloom will catch us ike a bt other bug-a-boo unless we watch O l[- The blues are supposed to take r,
 in hard luck; but some people ha
 them who know no revarses, and ha
 everything to be thankful for. I se rrasein% thoughts are the outcome ay '<7igestible food. the doctors tell h. There is still some disputa as
 whether the cause of the blues
 physical or mental, and some claim s is both. If we do not eat too rn,1
 or expect too much. or fear too nu ai we shall rot be likely to have 'th blues It is the exceesns of life wl1
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