Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-03
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

It is 9 note gone to protest Since the world for 2.000 years has shown it's inability to live by the ten command ments, whats the use of good tenn porary schedules? Every one owes it te himself to honor his good reso- futions as he would a promise to pay What we owe ourselves and cheat ourselves out of are the most dishon- orable and the worst kind of debts. A good gift for friends. or others, and good words for the rest of the year f, r everybody, is good resolution enough.
 wonder if we ranoderns live riqht2 This matter of living right is far from being stable in the world of ideas old Pythagoras thought that to C ,igllt one must thrice review the transac- tions of each day, that he. might be sure as to the value of what he had done, and of the injury which might accrue from things he had not done; but in this fast age what man does daily or leaves, undone is not allowed to attract special attention. Few people realize that the one first to be suspected should be ourselves; or that the suspicious of ourselves are the ones most often confirmed There was one wise man who used to pray: Deliver me. o Lord, from that evil man, myself"
 No one -can-be- fed with spiritual food who does not mediate upon the truths he hears discussed. There are no spiritual dinners served free to those who are too lazy to work for them. A celebrated writer once de- cIared: 1t is easier to ride ten miles to hears a sermon than to mediate upon it fifteen minutes when I get home" There is no such thing as absorbing divine truths as 8 sponge soaks up water. Thought has to be Fletcherized for spiritual health as food does for physical nourishment. Hearing sermons is easy. but assimi- lating them is work. If we were sticks or stones a bath in spiritual light might be enough, but the sons of God must make it their own.
 1t is funny how mary people be- lieve in weather prophets. and laugh at the prophets who upon what they consider divine data predict the end of the world at a positive date about four times. in every century An English scientist says the cycle of the weather is 1S6- years, and that when the record has been care[r' kept for this period, the weather of the core spending year is ever after the same day by day. The government weather bureausSpends large sums of money to be able to predict the weather from day to day but the late Horace Johnson said his prayers and guessed and eXGelled it fer accuracy. Looking for the day and date of the worlds end is as sensible and deDendable as reading signs to forecast the weather
 When ! look about me, for one wonder when it is that the meek are going to inherit the earth, The meek do not cut any ice a-days;, and there is no evidence that they have in the past two thousand years; but as a divine decree this must be accept cd as a truth which must surely come to pass; and when it does the proud and the arrogant win have to go way back and sit down. We are told 'fthe i flower of .meekness grows on the stem of grace" but the botaniSts have not found and classified it yet, neith CT have the bees gathered it's honey I Let me say that the meek are angry only when they ought to be.
 Perhaps you are wholly unaware oi 1 the parts birds play upon the earth similar to the work and occupation ot men. The study of the feathered 1 tribes as whole show them to be good home-makers., They are tree and cliff dweliers. cave and ground nesters, and road builders and roa6
 makers. They act as athletes, street l cleaners and scapvengers. They arc 1 skilled aviators musicians and actors; 1 and in the constructing of their nests are artists. They are hnters of TO- dents and other small prey, and as i fishermen they captured anything l from a YIliI1now to a codfsh They i have the villainous habit of hunting and eating one another. The bir6 world is full of wonders though not half explored.
 The family brawl is one of the most indefensible exhibitions of dis 1 order. Temper ungoverned creates the most pitable conditions. w might ask, What.wouId home be with
 out temper? There is no evidence ] Such home would be heavenly, but
 there is something admirable and dig 1 nified in @ home in which temper is held in a,beyance. One of the wors
 things to deal with is righteous indig-
 nation, because it is a bonehead Hro 1 duet. Righteousness displaees tenn. per and instails harmony. We have
 never heard that Satan had any ust
 for temper except to burn those wht are tempery! Temper is necessary
 but little goes a good ways.
 1 It is not wise to be talking of wha one suspects; and 1t is far from bein. so to talk too freely of what on, i knows! It is well to remember ftha l discretion in speech is more than elo quence." Nothing can result in great er' loss, or deeper regrets, than care
 lessness in this direction. What said in wrath has to be repented a leisure; and sometimes the mischie
 done cannot be repaired in a life ] time. This is why silence has beel
 cfassed as golden. You do not hay to be sorry for what has never beel
 said. To be garrulous is a blemisl
 and to whisper scandal is to leave mepl1ftical odor. To be modest il speech and merciful in action are evi
 dences of supermanhood.
 Self government is the best govern ment there is. It is the straight wa:
 to good government, and to ever
 good condition in. the family and i
 the state. It underlies frrnness with
 out temper and it accomplishes re
 suits in 8 quiet and orderly way. Go
 has to manifest wrath in nothing. H
 who said: t'Let there be light" an
 there was light, speaks peace to maI
 and never bosses. It is only one ste
 from the boss to the tyrant, and tw
 steps to the devil. Some professedl
 pious men are meaner to their fam
 flies than hyenas to their young. Con
 sciousness Of little authority ha
 created more hells on earth tha any other one thing.
 1t is a fool man who thinks he ca , be untrue to himself and dis1eyal t
 man and at the same time be loyal t God. There is an uHwritten law tha honesty must begin at home. as we Z as charity. He who nisinterprets h , relation to his Heavenly Father. an Is living in fear instead of in love (
 God, is to be pitied. To know tha
 the divine promises will come true