THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
The Grace or Pain
"1. used to storm and rage and rebel against pain. It seemed to me to lie sheer waste and cruelty. •But my experience of life has tnughtt me that ir there were no pain it would he obligatory to invent it. AA'ithout pain we should not he what we are and what we shall he. 1 have seen men and women emerging from a fiery furnace of sorrow and suffering with new souls. They did not understand the transmuting and refining process. They were hurt and stupefied and astonished by the flames in which they walked. But they came out of their ordeal. kindlier, simpler, stronger, and more lovable. After all, life is a wise teacher, and not one ot us leaves school. AA'e learn every day. and the older we grow the more we learn. AA e learn more from our sufferings than from our delights. Our sorrows reveal more secrets than our pleasures. —James Douglas, in the " Sunday Express.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1927, Page 2
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169THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1927, Page 2
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