"THE CHILDREN OF THIS GENERATION ARE WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 900, 20 August 1910, Page 10

"THE CHILDREN OF THIS GENERATION ARE WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT."

' ■■ Sir,—At a' time "like this, when • we. have Mr."Ward and his company in .Wellington, what an example wo have jof that saying • of William 'Blake: ''Everything that lives, lives not alone -f-nor for itself." jWhen Mr. : W»rd came hero he was waylaid—something after the fashion of v the' poor fellow who was journeying to Jerusalem. Yes, sir;.from the tone of some of tho-min-isters, wo will call them tho sons of thunder, who I havd no doubt would have liked to call down fire from heaven to destroy both Ward and his company, did they \ know what spirit thoy were of. Shakespeare says: "How poor are they that have not patience."', Jiurns says: ■• ■.-.•• • >

.' -:.': Nne- treasures rior pleasures .:'■■ Could make us happy lang. /■■'■■' . The ay . i', ;, That makes us right'or wrang. I was glad to see the Revs. Elliot and Shirer and Bishop Wallis in the tournament, also the priest.who took tho collection-box round (name unrecorded). However,.'. ho is in. the list of champions. The apostle tells us that the? hand is not the foot, and .so on, i-but. I thihk-'the Ward-Company to be" 'mostly hands and feet, and they have dojiS excellent service. Dr. Gibb and Jlr;North- may- represent''the' mouth, but, as. the- prophet-tells us that the power is not in tho.thunder, but in the small still voice,'. and .as ■ Elizabeth Browning says: "A poor man saved by this shall make thoe rich. A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong. . Thoii shalt'thyself bo sorved-by every -lease of service thou has rendered." iWhen Mr. Ward goes ho will have .blessings heapedupon him :by- little children for all time, as he leaves behind 'him a memorial of kindness. Tho Saviour had littlo children brought to him at. all times "and at all seasons, when even His disciples wanted Him -■to drive them away, sq,.that they -might 'not-interfere' with the-teaching; What. ; '-did.•Hβ say? : "Suffer little children to come unto mo, and forbid them'not." '■'Ministers; beware that ye' becomo not Stumbling blocks.—l am, etc., ■■'• "■■:• ■■■' >; " -.-'.. .:.;H. WALTON. . Waikanae. : ■ >•: ■. , ' ■■"' ."'•"'(This"-letter has been reduced in .''length, but without' interference..with the;writer's argument.] ; .