LOOKING BEYOND

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 57, 19 March 1943, Page 6

LOOKING BEYOND

!THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GROW UP After plaj'ing or Avorking all day in the A T alley, or perhaps on the hillside, have you had thq excitement of. suddenly - coming to the hilltop and being able to look far aAvay in all directions. - While you Ave.re in the A*alley busy with many things, you forgot the bigger world beyond the hilltop, iand it came as a shock to discover that, the Avorltl is a huge place with many people Avith their interests. Looking beyond the hilltop is the story'of what happens. Avhen Ave groAV up. While Ave are children AA r e play in the peaceful or on the hillside where everything is calm, protected and shut in. There is plenty of fun, and life goes on happity, to be sure. but. it is a small world and there is little thought, given to the Avider horizon. But Avhen- the boys and girl's begin to stretch into young manhood and young Avomanliood they suddenly find themselves looking at a new sort, of world unfolding before them. What they see is both pleasureable and. fearful. At first they do not knoAV Avhat to make of it-all. It is at this i>oint that parents, teachers in public school, and teachers in church, can be most helpful, not by giving orders as to Avhat youth is to do, but by helping them find anSAvers to their problems, and by interpreting the meaning of what they see all about them. Religion, schools, and family life, should be 1 arranged to help young people, lijve at their best while they are young, and also to prepare youth for Avhat lies beyond the 1 hilltop. What boys and girls do and think in thei valley and on the hillside is a part of life, but it is, not all of life. Along Avith learning to enjoy life as it is while young, young people need to he made ready for the bigger opportunities and responsibilities in the broad world Avhich waits for' them beyond the hilltop.