Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-24
THE MAN WHO TALKS

How unm1ndIul we are or the 1acL that parents who would train their l should themselves walk in that way. I The home example cannot be over
 come by the lessons taught once rweek in the Sunday school, to say nothing of the lessons of the streets. It was Shakespeare who pointed out I that the parents of children are
 Heavens lieutenants who should drill them in the way of love, and har- i mony; ,butifor discipline most parents do not equal q corporal of the guard. i iNarrowness and intolerance at home
 never results in broadminded and kindly hearted offspring. As Locke observes: Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they them
 selves have poisoned the fountain.
 F.. guess he who said a song will out live all sermonsl in the. heart, knew 1 what he was talking about. A good eoup1et or Quartrain with truth and 1 love in it car. keep the heart singing I it's whole life through; but who can imagine a heart with a sermon in 1t, I when the average heart is a stranger I to the Golden Rule, and would feel I crowded if required to retain the 23d EPsalm, a song of comfort which has blessed. millions of souls, and will I comfort humanity through all future
 ages. It is just as natural for man ito sing as for the bird. and the hu- man singer finds in his careeer what Carlyle specifies as the dewdrops of celestial melody.'' The little song in the heart gives more joy than money
 in the bank.
 ! It doesn't make any difference .l what happens don't get a grouch on. The first groucher was fool, as has T been every one since his day. No ra- tional ideas can live with a grouch. Because he is crooked everything the groueh sees is crooked. It does not take long for a grouch to make the moral law look as crooked as a ram S
 horn, or good friend look like foe.
 A grouch is worse than any germ T of disease since it is germ of
 madness innoculation cannot cure. | It has no status in science. It is in
 the end capable of depriving the soul
 of one glimpse of reason, or of
 heaven.
 A half century ago. Wendell Phillips
 was telling the American public that
 "the age of bullets was passed, and that the age of ideas had dawned, and that they were to govern the world Looking back we notice that the world is still numbering in the belief that ideas are best promoted by bull
 lets. Man does not seem to know how
 to bid his primitive methods goodbye
 and act up to the clear vision of the
 times, Wendell Phillips had true i vision of what should be, but who can say how many hundred years he was
 ahead of his time. He dared cham
 pien the rights of the oppressed in
 spite of the prejudice and violence of
 the times in which he lived.
 1 Sorrow is d slayer or an educator as man elects to treat it. Some one
 has. said "one can see further through , a tear than a telescope" but I doubt
 it, There is no doubt sorrow has giv-
 en- expression to some of he finest
 hope-sustaining sentiments the world tholds dear; and yet sTennysen's dec
 1aration: Never morning wore to ev- ening, but some heart did break, still holds true. Man was never made to dwell in solitude with sorrow, but was designed to master it. When there is socialibility sorrow loses half it's pain. Many sorrows are not, half as serious as they look: and where . hope is strong sorrow is weak. Happy is he who comes to recognize sorrow
 as one of the lower notes in the ora
 torios of blessedness.
 The more a nation appears like a mob the less it must be of a govern
 mente The only thing which makes 3 gevernment secure is loyalty and
 obedience; and the government whicE ii applies to its subjects least law, is the ! best government Love of authority and selfish interests put upon the statutes many laws which are never l enforced; and probably if one-half the , laws. of men were obliterated tho laws of God would have a better chance of observance. If the laws oi za a nation represent its wisdom, they l also represent it's lack of judgment
 as well as the crudities of government There is much villainy in law so splendidly clothed that it gets by tho lawmaker.
 Very few. people realize that being
 a gentleman is synonymous with beins a Christian. Bishop Hare says: "Th, T real gentleman. should be gentle il
 everything, at least in everything tha 3 depends on himself. in carriage, tenn t per, constructions, aims, desires. Fl. : should therefore be mild, calm, quiet f even, temperate-not nasty in judg ment, not exorbitant in ambition, no : over bearing, not proud, not rapacious not oppressive, for these things ar, D contrary. to gentleness'' You see un 3 der this definition there are many T more near gentlemen than real ones
 There are many varieties of good ant
 useful men who are not gentlemen
 Few cognomens are oftener misap :, piled by men than this.
 < We all have our guardians, and the,
 do not seem to be guardian angels
 either; and they manage us by lay :, they are so fearful lest we shall d. v wrong or get sick Because of th ; few drug f1endS, the entire populatio1
 of the republic is denied the priyileg
 of buying drugs without a perscrip e tion; because of the drunks and tn e crimes of a small per cent of tn
 users and -abuSerS of alcoholic stimu
 lants, the temperate, the aged and tn di invalid are totally denied them; whe
 contagious disease menaces the few
 compulsory innoculation must be sub
 mitted to by all the people. We ar
 wonderfully taken care of by thos n who cherish the conceit that they ar e our protectors by Divine decree, an I. those who make such good wor
 profitable.
 n Don't you think the world is givin 1 too much attentl0n to where men ar l. going and not enough to what the
 are doing? It is always talking abou
 the future, which is wholly shaped b n the present, instead of making No, d the watchword, and putting the spil "a itual, color into life which will be rec
 ognized as being heavenly. He wh
 lives right today. and day by day,
 living right for all time. Hora6 le Greeley. used to say to those who yer II tured to labor with him along spiritu; l. lines: "One world at a time. gentle