THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Tin: Burden or Office. “Office is a great honour, but it is •,i great, burden. The gatidiness of it very soon goes, ami the drudgery of it accumulates with the days. But it is a great tiling to serve one's country and one’s time. It is a happy thing to be able to take up our best traditions and feel, by the Providence of God. that one is helping to make a thing blossom anew, and making foreign countries feel that Use fine old spirit cl' this country, dimmed as it has lieon, tarnished as it lias been, subject to failure, nevertheless the host of it. the most spiritual part of it. the finest 10rnantic side, the great moral endeavour, and striving, after impartial right, is still alive.”--Mr Ramsay MacDonald.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1924, Page 2
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134THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1924, Page 2
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