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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 4

A FIXE Qf'OTAT'IOX.

“When the word came to the Bishop's Mooting: iho other day in Denver Unit David It. Forsyth had fallen, there came at once to my mind certain lines here and there from F.dwin .Markham's poem on Lincoln— Phrases as applicah’” - our tallon leader as to the groat Lincoln himself: “ 'So came the Captain with the mighty heart : I To held his place—■ Held the long purpose like a growing tree— Held on through hlame and faltered not at praise. And when he fell, in whirlwind., he went down As when a kingly eedar. Kroon with houghs. Co.'S down with a groal shout upon the hills. And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.' ” ---Bishop F. J. McConnell at the Tiiemorial servive for Dr !). Forsyth, one of America’s groat preachers. “\VK AUK BOR'S" QUESTIONERS.” ‘•\Ve are horn ipiestioners from the cradle to llic K'’ave. The cradle .and the grave are themselves the intens-, ( . : marks of in*, wro; :n‘ 'oil. As we liegin. so we go on. The putting of onestion.s is • , nvn.i: '■ • sn n el li’e. It is the intitiisiiivo child taal gut lit*vs knowledge. Without the spur el curiosity there is mental atrophy. The scientist makes liis discoveries Ly a pertinacious questioning of the reticent Nature. He is a great man if he manages to spell his way through a. few lines in her infinite hook of secrecy. Endeavour in every form can he seen a.s putting questions: to circumstance, and making the host of the answer. And the answer is rarely one that is self-explaiwory or wholly satisfying. Sometimes it is the Irish-

man’s answer of a counter-inquiry; sometimes an enigma which prompts farther questioning and further elfort. It often seems as if the questions which matter most are those of which there is least hope of a reply. And yet we can never ceaso to ask them. Xo man who is .not content to lose the whole sense of moral value can bring himself to give up asking why he came into the world, what hois doing in it. and what is to become of him when lie goes out of it. — <- Ihe Times” (London).