THE DAILY MESSAGE
LIFE’S BROKEN MELODIES! Some days life seems like broken melody, when all the beautiful whispers of our hearts are dumb, and the spirit grieves and sighs like some fractured violin lamenting over its lost art. No material cause can bring such grief to the spirit; only a spiritual hurt, cajj do that. When one we trust betrays—when one we love forgets—or when we say “ Gooa-bve ” to some once dear friend, whom Life, not Death, has severed from us—then the spirit mourns, the music in us dies away, the melody of life is broken, we are sad. Heath robs us of our friends all too soon; but it is better to be robbed of friends by Death than .by Life, for Death cannot carry a friend so far away as Life can and does. One of the saddest things in " life is a broken, friendship. One still more sad is the profane fashion in which many a broken friendship is ended, if our friendships must end, let us bury them deeply—sadly—reverently ; they are entitled to this at least. Never let us. desecrate a place that lms Once been sacred ; that is holy ground. A friendship is a sacred thing, even a broken friendship; but a broken friendship leayes a broken melody in our lives, silences the beautiful whispers in our hearts, and leaves us sad. , Guard your friendships ; you will be poorer without them; they will keep tiie melodies in your life. —M. PRESTON STANLEY.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 1
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