EFFICIENCY AND LIFE.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 4

EFFICIENCY AND LIFE.

"An eflficieney which merely enables us to seoure ourselves, or ito satisfy our appetites and emotions, eertainly produces fruits, but fruits of little value and of no permanence. If a man lives to eat, then that is the end of the matter. The proof of the pudding may fce in the eating, but when jt is eaten there is no pudding left. If a man lives to make himself a home, to keep a job, or merely in order to go on living, then there is nothing more. He is only a ripple that stirs the pool of time. When the ripple is gone the pool is still again. All is unohanged. Nothing of worth has happened. Eflficieney in itself will not stand as the test of life. It must be efficiency that produces the right kind of results, efEeets that have real and abiding worth. But such an eflficieney as this is actually open to every man, whatever kind of life he may have to live. For the true end of life is the fulfilment of ideals, and this is no vague and abstract matter, but as truly practical as the securing of our meals or the building of a home. It is not living that matters, but living in the right kind of way.": — The Rev. Canon L. W. Grensted, D.D.