Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Just what the relation is between in stinct and intelligence has always been a puzzle to mental science. While no one has been able to tell where the one ends and the other begins, still it is generally believed that there is a difference be- tween them. Were that question settled. the following would immediately arise: Is instinct safe guide to follow? That 1t has a certain preservatiye quality can- not be denied. The manner in which the lower animals-and man, too, for that matter-know just what to do in the mo- ment of danger, and how to protect them- selves in winter, shows this abundantly. And yet instinct plays both man and beast some dirty mean tricks. When the hungry fish sees the wriggling worm why doesn't instinct cry out 'Beware?' But she does nothing of the kind, but calmly lets the poor dupe swallow sbait, hook and sinlzer" When boy is tempted to do something that will break his mothers heart, why doesn't instinct shout Tt is the way of hell" but she does nothing, and hence the problem.
 Its long lane that has no turning" applies to the whole scope of human ex- perience There are no streaks of de- sirabie things that are continuous; they have their day, be it longer or shorter. All the i'll things of life likewise have their limitations. No living being ever had typhoid fever that did not turn twenty-one days of it is quite enough for most persons. The road always turns in time just as truly as the blackest mid night always merges into the morning light. It is also well that the highways of joy and happiness at length turn. Peter wanted to stay all the time on the De- lectable Mount with his ransfgured com panions, but Jesus knew that it would be better for Peter to get down into the grine and grind al the foot of the hill. Little Johnny would like to sit at the table for ten hours and eat nothing but raspberry jam. but the road must turn in less than fifteen minutes if Johnny is to save his diaphragm. Of course, our in comparable September couldn't last. if it had the earth would be cursed by drought.
 There Is an old h0meiy saying about riding a free horse to death" that hasn't entirely lost it's application in this very considerate and modest age. Did you ever hear this remark: Let us put Mrs. Blank on the committee, for she never turns anything down ?'' The inference is that Mrs Blank is just crazy to be in- vited. Quite apart from the cruelty and injustice of the remark. as a matter of fact there are a large number of Mir. and Mrs. Blanks in this world who are hard-working, good-natured. conscien- l tious people who consent to be on all sorts of committees because so per cent 1 of the people are shirks. If it were not 1 for these people who never turn any work down there is not a town in New l England that would be alive in ten years. They are not anxious to be in the | limelight, but are there to save society, l knowing they will be ridden to death and criticised.
 Are we not in both church and state, l getting to be overburdened with super l fiuous machinery? Those who had any l thing to do with the government during i the war exeIaim with a good deal of l vigor Never again!' A feeling of l thanksgiving creeps into their hearts as l they realize that they are still outside of l the insane retreat. Why this unhappy l recollection? Were they not patriotic! l Were they unwilling to do their part as l citizens during that terrible strife? By no means. They simply remember how 1 the work was hampered by a useless i system of red tape junk that held ul necessary work and caused suffering | among our soldiers. Useless machinery 1 was created for somebody who wanted a job, and he usually got it if he had a big
 
 church matters today, overlapping com
 mittees are created for the jobless, and
 like empty looms. they make 8 chatter
 but they get salary.
 God leadeth men by strange ways
 No one familiar with Old Testament his
 tory will be inclined to dispute this state
 nent It would also seem that in pos
 Biblical times many leaders of tn, l worlds thought were under specia
 providence. But is there not some clos, connection between a mans inheren
 ability and leadership directed iron
 without? For instance, in 8 vision tn,
 apostle Paul saw standing before him ;
 man of Macedonia, saying Come owe
 into Macedonia and help us" Wouit
 such vision as this ever come to al l idiot or a degenerate? Did 1t not com
 to Paul because, like Cecil Rhodes, h.
 thought in terms of continents ?" Wa
 not this man of Macedonia the creation
 of his own fervid desire and Christial
 imagination? When it is said that mel of old-and, perhaps, men of today-ar led by the Spirit, may 1t not be througl the extra activity of ones own powers l When it is affirmed that one is led b. an unseen force" is it anything nor
 than a rhetorical way Of Saying that hi
 own foresight is functioning?
 In one of our Connecticut cities no
 long ago a feeble old man in crossing tn
 street was hit by trolley, receiving a injury which proved fatal In discussin the subject, one woman said to another The motorman didn't stop his car-i time" A very important lesson can drawn from this fact Thousands of ac cidents occur every day and many c them fatal simply because somebody di not stop something-in time. I ono , knew a man who went to a doctor t have his eyes treated. The doctor sai bluntly: Stop drinking poor rum c you'll be bNnd-and stop now"' Tn man did stop-bat not in time. He die
 blind. How many a victim of the gres
 white plague" heard their doom pr(
 nounced in these words: You ought |
 have tended to this matter in time , How many people have not only lost the l lives but have otherwise failed simpl
 because some essential things were n, l tackled--in time.
 The secret of success ip any calling ft . a, great part lies in the interest tn l calling awakens. We are willing to wor
 and work hard. for the things that inte s est us. We are willing to be, and wal v to be, in those places where we find il
 terest We will not work, unless und'
 compulsion, for those things, those pc Y, sons, or in those places, if interest . wholly lacking. This, I believe. is u nerve cehter of the problem of ohurc
 non-attendance Watch the crowd tn
 blocks the sidewalk where a game b D tween the Giants and the Yankees is D a ing reported. We all know wny they a
 there. It is not fair to fay the char
 of church non-attendarce to the autofn