LESSONS FROM THE SOIL
THERE are two things we have yet—all of us—to learn from "the soil. The first is our utter dependence upon it . We take it for granted—but suppose, by some freak, absolute sterility smote it! There would speedily be an end of us and all our works, so far as this Avorld is concerned. We are dependent entirely upon Something, or Someone, beyond ourselves. Our vanity admits this only when we are driven to it. The mass of men appear to believe: in their own self-sufficiency. What would all their feverish activity profit them if there were nothing given them to begin with? The second thing the soil may teach us is to look beyond it to the law of all human life. For what is human life but a tilling of a superior soil; a sowing of seed and the reaping of a harvest? The friinds, the emotions, the spirit of men are cultivated mutually by the sowing of ideas and sympathies, "If you have a good thought, pass it on to your neighbour; if it has. made you fruitful, it may also fructify him; sow the best you have, but sow evil and you may reap the very devil!" The world ought to listen to that ancient voice to-day.—F.C.S. in the Birmingham Post.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 67, 27 April 1943, Page 4
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