GREAT PLANS, IDLE HANDS
f We miss nmch of the grace and glory of kindly doing in these days for the very reason that we are so eagerly ready with our kindly thinking. We are eager to put the whole world right. We .read books about abolishing pov-.
erty and pain. We go to study ciTCles and discuss it. We make speeches about it, and listen to them, and we join. political parties whieh are to be the instruments of our nation-wide and world-wide benevolence. And yet, somehow, the misery that lies at our very doorsteps Temains uncomforted aud unsuceoured — the misery that cannot wait for the great schemes and the splendid visions to materialise. Let us not, because we cherish the vision of a just world, lose sight of the daily duties and privileges that challenge ns here and now. Nothing can exempt us from the heartach© whieh the sight of misery brings; and nothing should rob us of the heartsease whieh re^Trda the pitying eye and the helping hand.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 12
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