GIVES STEADINESS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 4

GIVES STEADINESS

"But now, with this widening of the horizon, our personal ups and downs, desires, cravings, efforts, are seen in scale; as small and transitory spiritual facts, within a vast, abiding, spiritual world, and lit hy a steady spiritual light. And at once a new coherence comes into our existence, a new tranquillity and release. Like a chalet in the Alps, that homely existence gains atmosphere, dignity, significance from the greatness of the sky above it and the background of the everlasting hills. " The people of our time are helpless, distracted and rebellious, unable to interpret that which is happening, and full of apprehension about that which is to come, largely because they have lost this sure hold on the eternal, which gives to each life meaning and direetion, and with meaning and direction gives steadiness. I do not mean by this a mere eseape from our problems and dangers, a slinking away from the actual to enjoy the eternal. I mean an aeceptance and living out of the actual, in its homeliest details and its utmost demands, in the light of the eternal; and with that peculiar sense of ultimate security whiqh 04]^ §> bflld Qfi, tiw eternal brings." — gvelyn Underjiill,