WHAT ABOUT SOME PREVENTING ?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 17, 22 October 1943, Page 2

WHAT ABOUT SOME PREVENTING ?

A few weeks after some scores of lives had, been lost, and millions of pounds' worth of property had been '■ ruined by the bush fires in one of the. States of Australia, there appear- ' ed this slogan on a "Safety First" poster board, placed where busy ! thousands of people went to and fro to work : Any fool can start a fire : i but if takes a careful man to pre- - vent one. Of course nobody could deny the. i truth of that. Some of us wonder ■ what might have been the result, if , such posters had been put up be- . fore the danger period began. It i-- , desperately saddening to think that . a moment's carelessness with a . match can damage or destroy the t work on which God may have spent / centuries of care. t But there are other things which 2 need to be. cured by prevention. We r would probably all agree that Go:l 2 is anxious to see all His children s living in happy friendship with one. e another,, in good, health and in a t world where there is peace. Well, -j why is God's wish blocked, His work spoilt, so often? la it not because e there are too many folk who either y do not know what God wants them ( I to do, or do not care about doing it? p We could almost make up a new t motto for a Avail poster, something e like this: "Anybody can start a quart rel, or a world war, but it takes t careful men and women, boys and f to prevent, them."