THE SNOBS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 4

THE SNOBS.

“Every snob is literally denying

Christ. Dr Pusoy confessed that he never passed ;i workman in the street without a secret feeling ul reverence, as he said to himself, ‘ls not this the Carpenter V The temptation to class pride besets us and entangles us at everv turn. People in comlortahle houses consider themselves above the people who have to crowd in tenements. the children ol the retail shop-keeper may not go to school with the children of the wholesale dealer who sunplies goods to that, very shop. How difficult it is for a Christian woman, who keeps no servant, and to do it without the slightest taint of condescension. To he purse-proud may lie more vulgar, hut it is not a. hitmore wicked than to he puffed up wiln the sense of our education, our refinement. our culture, our nanus and place in the world. 'Many people question this or that article of the Christian creed, hut the doctrine which they secretly revolt against- is St. Paul’s terrible doctrine that, ‘there is no difleience.’ And yet every cradle preaches the same doctrine and every coffin as well —Cod's humbling, heart-searching truth which the angels of Bethlehem affirm fresh on Christmas Day.”—The Itcv. T. 11. Harlow, in his lnok ‘‘The Dove of Cod.”