THE PRICE PAID

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 4

THE PRICE PAID

"fthink one of the few universal fcruths of life is that nothing great is done, nothing really noble achieved, without a correspohding sacrifice. And we see in all types of men and in all ranks the man who has not been wiljing to pay the price and so has received from life no delivery of the goods. The politician, the artist, the parson, the man in the street— each can have anytbing he desires on the' one condition that he is willing to pay the price demanded. And the unhappy man is he who pays a great price for something which he finds, which perhaps he knew all along, was not worth what he had to give for it. "One may say, 'No doubt there is need of some sacrifice in all lives, but not all men bave to pay so high a price or to give up so much.' To which one can only reply, 'How do you know? By what rule do you measure anotlier's sacrifice? ' The heart, says the Book of Proverbs, knowetb his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. It has always seemed to me that happiness is not in any true sense a possible aim. Rather it is a bonus given in, something which life adds to the other gifts which it brings. If we seek it we shall never find itA and if we seek something elsc worth seeking we shall find it too."— Canon Green (Manehester).