Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Tn dense forest without knowing the | direction one can get very easily con- fused if the sun IS hidden. Even old 1 woodsmen have been known to go round | and round in a circle where there were no distinguishing landmarks If the trees are very big they usually have moss on the north side because shaded by the sun, by this experienced Eoodsrnef1 are able to get their direEion But this is far less reliable than old Sol, whose pathway in the heavens is marked by ab- scluts precision When. parties start on their journey through the dense forest they rave some distinctive place to reach that definite objective is north, south I east or west of the starting point. If l they can keep the points of compass clearly in mind there is no danger of losing the way. The mariner is never
 lost at sea if he has a compass. Latitude | and longitude are children of the sun
 Let us, then, take off our hats to old ! The equivalent Of the sun is manifest ] in the world of responsible action. How
 many bright lights there have been in ! the world giving direction to the lives of
 men. Many boy has been to college all at sea as to his life work. Up to I this point he has shown no greater apti- tude for one pursuit than another. He | AAdo4DScll q SUOQ di1-dTOuuQ ing respectable rank in all his studies. But thus far he has seen no pursuit to which he would care to de- vote his main attention for life. While, however he is foundering around in the 1 intellectual sea, like one bewildered in a l dense forest he will come under the spell of some unusually gifted teacher who will | be unconsciousy 2 guide to this young | student 8 sort of sun by which he will I learn whether he ought to travel north, south, east or west to the position which I is to become his life work Not alone in ! the college, but in the church. Sunday school, or the lodge there will be some sun whereby one may find His bearings. One of Fhe great objects of the hu- Il man mind Is to make inquiries. Most of our knowledge comes from asking ques- l tions. No child of average intellect I among civilized peoples ever comes to maturity without asking, '1s. there God?" The greatest argument in fla T vor of the existence of the Deity is the : absolute impossibility of explaining the } phenomena of the natural world with out God. Suppose I should tell man | that a compound triple expansion engine i such as is used in ocean liners-rnade . itself; that the iron forming the basis of construction dug itself out of the earth, put itself into the furnace. pour T ed itself into the different mouIds,
 fashioned the various parts and adjust ! ed themselves in their various relations without any outside help. Now that man would think, and probably correctly, that 5 was either an idiot or a lunatic. But 2 what shall we say when we come to the : solar system with iR infinitely finer and more accurate adjustments? We must , believe in the Divine Maker. Atheism ] Is dead issue
 It Is the conclusion of the highest hu-
 man reason that God not only exists but is knowable even if not to perfection
 Deism admits that God is everywhere 2 present in His universe and is equal T ly energising in all it's parts, but does
 not reveal Himself to infinite creatures This is the high-brow agnostieism oi
 Carlyle, Emerson Gin the latter days) : Huxley, Darwin, Herbert Spenser and . other omnipotent scientists1 But this 9 theory is oyerthrown by the manifesto. T ton of His kindly providential care of tn. f creatures He has made. For instance l. the domestic animals are not working
 themselves into nervous prostration ovel al & possible shortage of anthracite coal I- Why not? Simply because some might.
 1 hand is providing for them an equivaien z for anthracite, and 1t never fails Thir 5 suits are provided in summer, and heav, 3 flannels so to speak, for winter. Do yol j. think that this Is the work of blint Il chance? This mighty hand is as good ai Q it is great.
 t If we. the great American people de r pended less on automobiles and trolley -- and more on shanks mare, we would en
 1 joy better health. Quite possibly VI l might get 8 fuller share of more desir :, able gifts and pleasures of life whel = we compare the things already attainet .s with the attainable we are only jus r emerging out of pagan darkness. and il oti the line of head work we are making e fair showing by the side of the othe " pagans. The simple reason is we ar {, using our head pieces. But when i n comes to walking we are a race 0 2 wobblers because we don't use our legs \ If we did use them as we do our head
 we would astouish the world From ou 2 2 collar bones up we are ninety-fve pc n cent. good; from our hips down only f1v e, per cent. good. If we continue for tn lg next ten years to pamper our wea, a- knees and bunioned joints as we hay e. for the last fifty we shall have the na el tional disease of legitis. For a chang ,ei we want to walk more and for sti ,r greater change to walk three times a
 much.
 When you walk in the woods you war
 a cane. but in cutting a cane you usuaI
 ly make a mistake. If a stick look s. straight from where you stand you GU in 1t, trim it, then squint along and finall
 throw it away in disgust, saving: 'fVvhs
 do I want of that ramshorn?'' No bal you made a mistake in looking at NV from only one standpoint You ought
 have walked all around 1t and seen
 from the north, east, south and we.
 points of vision and all the interrnediai 6 stations. Then you ought to have locke 'l- from the top downwards, and from u
 bottom upwards, and after it is cut ar
 trimmed it Is well for your peace of min al that you don't measure 1t by a straigl ngi edge. The test of squinting along Il
 edge of a cane Is perfectly n1erciles
 After we have made several attenp ha at cutting reasonably straight can ,In we begin to see she point of the ol ha adage of "goins through forest ar
 coming out with a crooked stick" N
 know from experience that this is tru 1is When anybody tells me that Jof bi- Smith is perfectly straight I shall nett lar CT put him into the category of u
 saints nor classify him with crinaina
 until I have walked all around him. shall want to see how John Smith loor
 up in the north light, how he appea at sunrise, at midday, and in the suns, Ee want to see him from Montreal, Lo
 don, Buenos Aires and San Francisc
 shall not call him straight simply b ect cause he sits bolt upright in his pc nyI 6fty-two times in the year with a hea ew enly smile on his face when the minist
 says 'the Lord loves to see His sair
 in His sanctuary" I want to see ht