Thought for The Times
•w**—r--' ~r ’rYTTf Need to Regard the Future. Wordsworth complained in his day that “plain living and high thinking are no more”, that tlie “homely beauty of the good old cause” was no longer ■ reveregce<| : But there is ajways a new good cause to work for, apjl aspiration renews itself constantly in thp heart of majp. Wo hfive in us something that lias survived all change—thp imperishable spirit, the soul, which is God’s pledge that we are only pilgrims here. With a multiplicity of devices for increasing the efficiency of mind and hand we give too little heed to increasing tlie efficiency of the soul. The pressure of modern life lias created a haste and restlessness that are hos- ' tjlp to sobriety. In the clatter and ! rush we are in danger pf being caught ' in the jam at the gate.. (
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1920, Page 2
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