Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

of human life far more extensively than | anyone imagines. It has an objective side that has not been fully explored as | yet. We are so constituted by nature | that faith on our part is a necessity. It | is reasonable that we believe in great variety of persons and things. And we know without shadow of a doubt that 1 the exercise of faith on our part strengthens the human personality all along the line. In philosophy this is known as subjective faith. or faith in relation to the person exercising It. Like a coin, however, faith has an obveFse side; 1t has an unmeasureable influence over the man in whom we believe. If man knows that others believe in him, not only does it give him courage, but 1t urges him to believe in others also Many man has been turned from utter dis couragement by the consciousness that somebody had faith in him. If we want to do poor fellow a good turn, just let him know that we have not lost faith ln him.
 We know many things by the process l of self revelation. Self revelation, how 1 ever, does not lie in the thing considered l but in the mind considering it. That is, ] things are revealed to us through some controlling attitude of mind. A minister 1 is apt to measure the size fo church or | manufacturer size is revealed by the l amount of machinery it would hold; or i the merchant sees measurement in tie 1 terms of a warehouse. To the boy Fourth l of July is measured by the noise and confusion it can create. This is because he is going through the rattle-ty-e bang period Because noise is within him he values noise outside of him. This is just i as it ought to be- The boy has a, per l a5f at If tho
 Fourth. We older folks ought to help 1 him make more noise-if that is possible, but we ought to show him why it is a day for fFecrackers and torpe6oes. We l must supply the missing link which caIl7 | meets his noise with the Declaration of 1 Independence.
 There are reasonable grounds for re- 1 joicing over what our country has ac- complshed in the comparatively short period of, it's national history. But we
 must carefully guard against the swell ed head" because we are not the sum total of human knowledge and attain n1ent. We can yet learn some important things from nations said to be benighted. For instance, the manner in which China deals with the labor problem. The capi- talist as well as the workman has his union and guild house. The peace of the l community is not disturbed by the paid organizer or walking delegate. Differ ences between the parties are referred to an unpaid committee who are engaged in industry. For more than a century has
 this plan worked we'll in preventing long
 disputes, as unfair competition is pre-
 vented among capitalists themselves be- | cause they must reveal their methods to
 their own guilds. There is some solid | sense in the Orient.
 The following sentence is taken from
 from 8 recent baccalaureate address
 Success often depends on the ability to sec the difference between a difficulty and an irnpossibiIity." What to a faint hearted man is utterly impossible, to a 1 man of courage and vigor is only 9 diff , Ifcult thing tEat is to be used as an op- , portunity. Engineers for a long time contended that the construction of tubes | under the Hudson was impossible. This was answered by putting in the tubes . For many long centuries Italy felt secure from French invasion by land because 5 the Alps were regarded as insuperablt 7 barriers. But one day Napoleon said
 '"rhe Alps must go !' and under his com
 manding genius the Alps, as an insuper.
 able barrier, went Since Marconi ha. made air currents the vehicle for tn, g i communication of rnessag ages, and th, I 1 Wright brothers have made the air tn, medium of travel, we may well ask i { ultimately there will be any impossibl, } barriers in the pathway of human progress.
 Il The greatet field of all yet to be mas ' tered is the home field, the field of con sc5ous personality. In the language o ; another, it is the mastery of His Majes ty. myself History furnishes no better [ illustration of this than the career O. = Napoleon. He conquered nations, he con 1 0HnrpI ha hi l l he conquered others, but he never con quered himself. He looked upon it a. v evidence of perfect supremacy to gratif. ! every whim of a caDricious nature Tn " stead of holding his minor appetites il leash, he allowed them to master him. I 9 1 Napoleon had possessed the moral powe e of Washington or the heart of Lincoln + he would. easily have been the greates
 man who ever trod this planet Is it ; - mark of greatness to let an ungovern : able temper make ones dependents fea z and trernble? or is it a sign that man i s' not big enough to govern himself2r Th | biggest job any person ever undertool s was to control his own spirit
 f We poor mortals are strangely fncon D sistent creatures at the very best W r. are neither wholly good nor wholly bae l. but we are both good and bad in streaks It is marvel how strong and brave "
 are under some conditions, and how con temptible under others. Men will so int battle and fight like demons when tn $ i danger is very great, without trenholm 'f muscle; they will risk their lives in res n cuing women and children from 9 burn
 ing building, and when thanked will sa
 with a blush. "Oh, forget it p But thes
 same soldiers will kick like steers Z
 mess if the meat is teo cold or the eel fee too weak Why is it that men wi ,e play baseball, or watch a ball gam
 right cut in the broiling sun at 12o d,
 grees and forget all about it. but will s ;. on their Verandas and think it is awf,
 tough to sizzie away with the mereur Ns at s5 in the shade. Again, people wi sit for two hours in a theatre with
 heavenly grin on their faces, but if the ct minister breaches for more than half 9 Id hour-even if he doesn't put the probe u- very deep-they will have a grimace (
 their faces which, by e.iterpretatio
 means: Stop or we'll hurI the hyn
 beck at you !! It was Josh Billings vi re said that people are as funny as an fy body"
 V Is it not singuIarly amagfng that i
 telligent people, as we boast ourselv
 to be, So little realize the kindness .s 1 nature in her dealings with the hum; v. family? This thought came to my mil R while We were feeling the inconvenien of the hot. humid atmosphere. That
 was depressing goes without saying. B
 did you ever see backward garden veg ys tables grow with greater rapidit be While the mercury frequently ran o- and stayed at 90 degrees in the shat
 bringing more or less personal discel
 fort, did 1t occur to us what would pre
 ably happen if the mercury should we twice as high? Why not? How cas-