TAKING CHANCES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1928, Page 1

TAKING CHANCES

Don't tempt Providence. llow often we hear this trite saying. Just what it means, is not easy to see. After* all, Providence is so superlative, if we accept the orthodox explanation, that it almost seems an impertinence to say that there can be any question of tempting. It is just one of those eases where we use words loosely. There are so many folk who trot about using phrases that are leaping from the tongues of the gullible. Without a single thought they apply them to almost every atom of the day’s work. There are risks to take in this life of ours. Risks which just make it all ivorLit living.. And just as we start off from tho mark, there comes along some old Victorian fogey with that futile remark about tempting Providence. Thinking about it at all. it is not unreasonable to believe that Providence would say that that remark is but an old and out-of-date piece ol apprehension. Get on with your* job! Go to it, and take a chance. Providence is not the providence of yesterday. There's a great risk, in fact a nasty risk, in crossing a one-way street. Goodness knows, to do that is tempting Providence with a vengeance. And the job you have in mind is a hundred times less risky. Co to it I And don’t bother about tempting Providence, tint Ire careful.