PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1927, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

A AIIRACLE OF GRACE. “It is not alwnv sbebiml the most promising exterior that the finest brain lies, and sometimes the greatest refinement of thought—a long, long way surpassing the ordinary—is displayed where one would have thought it least likely to be possessed. Especially is this the case in districts such as the one in which 1 work, where many of the children's lives are lived below the poverty-line; their parents being those who. in their young days, had hut the crudest advantages, from which they were early taken to days of menial •dead-end’ and unrepaying toil. When these parents come to school to talk with us, how often we return to the classroom to look at our young charges with new and infinitely reverent eyes; to wonder by what act of grace of God and the effort of man such delicate blossoms as they have sprung from the bent, gnarled, and smoke-begrimed branches that are the parent tree.”—“A Teacher.'' in the 'Sheffield “Daily Telegraph.”

THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE. “ With many of the social and economic problems peculiar to our generation, the churches at present may be ill-equipped to deal, hut we realise that at the root of every trouble there is some moral evil, and in keeping men sensitive to that we are surely exercising a function which is essentially the Church’s. We may not have the competency to teach, the captain of industry, or the workman or the diplomatist their technical business, but we can generate an atmosphere, inspire a social sentiment and inculcate large guiding principles which can make all the difference in the spirit in which these people do their work.”—The Rev. H. Bnlcock, ALA.. B.D,