Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

tion is one Of the important nafn5pfingS | of activity. The disposition to rise in life, l the desire to make the most of the possi- l biaities of life, the impulse to develop | what is innately potential in oneself is l ambition. Is not faith, hope, aInbitien the fundamental triad in the human per- sonality which produces the necessary effort leading to success? Leave out any one of these three from the triad and the result will be sort of censsmptive ef- fort after success. One Of the grandeSt sights in this world is the poor lad nov ing heaven and earth for an education. With faith and hope grppsd by ambition. his few pennies seem to be touched by a magic wand. I am not at all sure but 1 what it Is better to be clutched by a false ambition than to be utterly andbi- tionless.
 Just how far can one trust to appear
 anees iR forming judgments? We do this | every day, and there is some justification 1 for it. I once attended a big exposition and, getting tired, sat down and watched my fellow visitors. Among them was 1 large man of distinguished appearance. l He was well dressed portly, had side 1 whiskers, and fad such good face that !; I set him down as a Sunday school 9n- 1 perintendent Now the floor elevation of
 Exhibit B was about two inches higher ! my Sunday school friend did not see, because he stubbed his toe most lament 1 ably, and began to sprawl about most
 undignifediy. Whether it was pain, deep | humiliation, or just momentAry lapse i from virtue, I did not know at the time, and have not been quite able to determine l since, but as a matter of fact he at once, | without moments warming. began to 1 say things so much worse than hang it'
 that was reluctantly compelled to revise I my judgment as to his exact Sunday
 school status.
 The affair troubled me because it re- flected upon the acuracy of my judgment. } The more the matter was brooded over, !, the heinousness of his act seemed to abate somewhat. First his undigniied
 act was not the result of careiessness or abstraction, because his abdogninal area
 was so extensive that he could not possi-
 bly see his feet when looking down straight. Secondly, judging from the things he said the mind was not acting
 normally. The manner in which he con- nected the lower regions with the people who built exposition halls showed that , he was swayed more by his feelings than
 his reason. Thirdly, two important things had been touched, his pride and his bun 1 ion. This man was proud of his social :, position, which probably had been injured by his Alndignifed sDrawling. As he was d big man he had fair sized buRion That bunion evidently had been touched l for he held it in his hand and said things I that are usually omitted from the opening el exercises of the Sunday school. Does no4 f the Lord give latitude to men with bun
 ions in a state of activity? I think. after 1 all, that he was 8 Sunday school worker We need to revise the meaning we giv' s to certain words we frequently use. Just r what do jwe mean by the expressionz
 common things common people?'~ Int popular interpretation, I am inclined t
 think, is entirely wrong. Generally tht
 word common" is made to express un '- worthy, inferior, if not objectionable, hab = its and qualities. Strictly speaking, it il ,1 nothing of the sort whatever. As mat o ter of fact. common things and "cosn
 mon people, do not involve the idea 0 E 1 condition, value or worth. but refer orl. '' to nun1ber-s-nuInbers considered in tn s- mass. Common things are those wfricl l. we are constantly meeting; things in tsu 2 mass, where one is very much like an ,-l other, neither greater nor less, alike ii 10 shape, size, color, weight and utility. a there was only one handful of corn i existence, it would be put on exhi } on
 It is common only because it is plentiful i not because II Is uAl1npOFIdII,
 k w a ,r The importance of the sO-called "com n mon people, is seen, first of all, in bein ii Lhow, as they always have been, the main s stay Of our churches. s. It was the every s day peasant folks representatives of tn ol rank and fiIe-who focked to the stay T. dard of Jesus. Rarely did the learne h and the great accept Him in his day. W has been the common people" in all th <G ages who have done the worlds nlapIls ,nj labor. There are four things absolutel le vital to human Fife: food, raiment, she
 ter and fuel. It is common labor on th 70 farm that furnishes us with food; con
 mon labor in the mills that provides ' :" with clothing; common labor of mason t and carpenters builds our houses; an IS the same in the mines and forests thu H gets the fuel. In every age of the worl 0 the, rank and file of men have aIwas SC fought the worlds battles. Cornrne a. everyday boys / in colleges, workshop erl counting rooms and farms have ftrmshs of the material of armies. The hnportanl ~ of such cannot he overestamated.
 It. It has been proposed. and the pro6os he ton is reasonable one, that severe r as striction should be applied to imnigrafic In for a term of years; first, so that il l. immigrants we have may so pass tarnui L the melting pot" as to amalgaInate wi our American life. If we are flood,
 with those who do not blend with oI eo life they will swamp us. The project
 to keep out all undesirabies, but adm
 brain and muscle. This idea is based the assumption that a nation ike an . dividual has right to protect itself. B aI ,lH there is another side to be looked at '4 student of economics has recently aske
 When the present generation of worke
 in steel mills, mines, on the railroads, .n- the farms, and in domestic service W Id have grown old. with DO fresh influx
 new recruits from Europe, there VIII e
 tainly be loss of 3.0oe,0 900 workers, q Tn. possibly many millions more" Who tn is will do our manual labor?
 Anxiety is a perennniaI sf1ietton
 the sole and simple reason that we DO ter mortats are perennial beings. Anxiety aty all the year round, because we are. not we then others just like as. fer j.
 in proportion as we pass of others col ,.sI on who stew and fret and fuTne and fr tbs and fidgit over things which for the n. - cannot be helped. or at least are not pl Try vented. Ever since the golden age
 Adam intelligent rortals have be
 working themselves, into high-strui ay nerve-wra acAdng condition over things ff ds. never happen. Our grandpafents did it ag- some extent our parents a little mo
 ] and we go them all one better in. enf
 taining improbable fh not ffnpossil out nightmares We. seem to have lost cen faith in that splendid prpmiss: ''EIe Il i.h keepeth thee shall neither ssusnber l
 sleep" We are so constituted as not
 wholly avoid anxiety, but it's worst |
 lures would be toned down with the thel treduction of little more vital faith. m mau. I once ssw several ants trying to dl