Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

that a. man who has lived quite decehtty up to 50 years If, at that age, he takes 8 notion into his head to be little funny
 is apt to go the whole limit justifying the old saying that There's no feol like an old fool" Now there is seed thought in this that applies to many other things. Of course, it would not be exact language to say that inanimate things act funny, but they do sometimes surprise us. The very mild wezther that until quite recently has been so thought ful of our feelings and so considerate of our coal bins. suddenly fell from grace on Sunday, Feb. 20. Old timers thought of March, 1883. It is quite apparent that winter is not going to rot in the sky" After all, is not the weather firmly gripped by law? If 1s inches of snow efnbarrasses us. what would four times l that amount do? But four times that amount never falls where 1t would be fatal. What would New York city do 1 under Labrador snowfall? The great | city may feel the pinch of zero cold but l it will never wrestle with fiva or six feet of snow. Power tempered by goodness and mercy still sits on the throne.
 Henry D. Thoreau is not the greatest 1 name in American literWsure. "A recluse, shutting himself up from all contact with his fellows, can never dwell in the highest domain of thought But Thoreau had 6
 very keen insight into the natural world,
 and no American writer surpasses him
 in it's interpretation. He somewhat re-
 sembles his friend Emerson in the power
 of analyzing and in the facility of ex- pressing the things he hears and sees about hirn-usually in the wilderness. In
 his delightful essay on Winter he puts great emphasis on the fact that the stan dard is within US, and in the true life this will be unmodified by outside condi- 1 tions., Though always clear yet he ex- presses himself quaintly. He says: "To
 please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in carloads, while we neglect to work our mines of gold Known only to ourselves, far up in the Sierras where we pulled up aNbusf in the moun- tains and saw the glittering treasure"
 T The Massachusetts Institute of Tech. nology has gone one better than some of \ her sister institutions in the application of science to the prevention of disease
 The aim is to abolish colds. If a stu.
 dent sneezes he is -hastened of to the
 medical clinic to discover the biological
 reason. Sneezing is caused by a microbe
 tickling the olfactory nerves. The stu.
 dent must give good and sufficient req.
 sons for renting his apartment to mi.
 crobes. The theory is if he had followed
 the policy of ''watchful waiting" he might ! have kept the enemy from getting within , his gates. More than that, the dootors examine every student who has a ret
 nose. It is not satisfactory to clain
 that is "left-oyNr" from ante-prohibi tion days. or that the rednsss comes from "Greenland's icy mountains' that wal into Boston harbor. Unless inc sudden } can prove that the redness is . famil, } characteristic he must be submitted t,
 treatment. Some of the more sensitivt
 ones are resorting to powder puiss t,
 escape the inquisition.
 Nowhere is greatness in sinplieit, more clearly seen than in the thought ? and deeds of Jesus. How easily, hoy l naturally. how free from fuss and strail = did he go about his daily tasks! No ad . vance agent heralds his coming; no hal . is hired for some future date; no ticket
 are sold beforehand; no brass band 4 necessary to supplement his power Whicl t is never lacking. He is like the grea a primary laws that preserve the balanc T Of power in the universe silently but ef B iciently. As water tu1nbles along tn l. sallow stony bed of brook we know i . by the noise it makes. But who eve e heard the working of that hama ''tha II holds creation up, and guards his ehil
 dren well?" Whose ear can detect tha
 resourceful energy that revelyes tn II planets in their orbits, or lifts up tn y water of the oceans in the movement [ n the tides? Did anyone ever hear tn l. working of that power that says ever es day to some deae Lazarus Come forth 1 L. Jesus always worked easily because | " worked with full equipment.
 ,ei Whenever we undertake to do thini V be it small or great, there is joy in at
 vancing because it savers of victory. B, we are very apt to be filled with a fee :" ing of humiliation, a sense of sham 'e when compelled to retreat. because T. seems like failure. As a matter of fac of it takes more downright ability to r, Lg treat gracefully than to advance victor d ously. Of Napoleon's great general ra Ney was considered far inferior to Ma 50 sena, but in making the bold onward das = he has no superior in all history. AT v. yet when it came to retreat Ney had I or more spirit than whipped dog. It W: a in retreat where Mascena showed h f. masterly ability. After the disaster a. Moscow, when Napoleon cowardly left h d. army to it's own resources, 1t was Ma NV sena that saved it iron utter annihil ba tion. During Washington's great care
 how many times he was compelled to r
 treat! How he was snetSed at for h lh Fabian policy And yet it was not Was De ington, but Lord Cornwa1lis. who surrel ch dered at Yorktown. It has been my <o h. servation that. in making a sweater, g. takes more of the grace of God to rip O hs than to knit.
 no The story is told in current ma<azil s. of man who was making a collection ,o butterflies He prov ided himself with
 chrysalis He put 1t away in the autuu
 and thought no more about it during tl
 winter. In the spring it began to sho
 some feeble signs of life. He pecan w more and more interested in the co a tents of the chrysalis. AS the warm
 of spring increased so also did the Ii
 of the embryo butterfly. Day by day d
 the little creature put forth more a, -e more effort to break away from it's Ii e- prisenment At length it's struggles b
 came frantic, and, thinking his little D
 was suffering, in a moment of Tnisplac to sympathy he took his knife and open he the chrysalis. and the little creature car CT futtering out. But there 1t stayed:
 had no power of wing. It ought to ha
 been allowed to work itself = freedo in The energy of it's struggle was necessa n. to give it flight Our strength is born nn our struggles. We live only by exercisi nv our capacity for life.
 It was lack of oil that put the R 5. foolish virgins to shame and coafusiS While they went to garage after ne the bridegroom came and they get le Ter No matter if they did thump on the do and yell themselves hoarBe, they siuns
 had to stay out There is msshty | Id- tC-date teaching in this story. We m, n- be prepared for tho great invitations all life. We must be ready with our Ian h., trimmed and burning; it must be full
 oil, and if we are wise We will take
 little can of oil with Us in case of