A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

THE REMNANTS OF LIFE.

Go into any of our groat city stores

sale Lime, and you will find hundreds of remnants of material, of varying

length and quality, at bargain prices

The reason why these are offered a bargain prices is that, being remnants their value has depreciated. TJioj comprise small pieces-—odd lengths difficult colours for matching—ends ol rolls, etc.—so they go cheap.

If they are purchased by one win: knows their possibilities, creations ol great bounty may be evolved; if not, they remain rags, serviceable it may be, but still only rags. Go to the great Store, of Life. There, too, you will find hundreds of remnants; only they are human—-remnants of •men. and women of varying ages, types, and powers, who feel cheap—who have marked themselves down and, in their discouragement, have put themselves on the bargain counter of life. • They feel that they are very small pieces in the great mosaic of life —odd lengths. They are convinced that their market value is low.

So long as they are possessed by that conviction, so long will they remain upon the bargain counter—remnants—each year more soiled, frayed, bedraggled—just broken fabrics of manhood and womanhood.

Get off that bargain counter. You shouldn’t consider yourself a remnant. Never mind what failure you have had in the past, you’re a full-length woman, a lull-size man.

Nothing has the power to keep you on the remnant counter hut the thought in your own mind, and nothing can lift you off, when , once you are there, so long as you are convinced it’s your proper place. Boot out that thought which tells you that you are a human, remnant—a down-and-out —a misfit—a failure—as you would root out a poisonous weed from your garden. It is the deadly nightshade of doubt. Give room to it, and you must make room for something deadlier still—darker dnu' + darker fear, deeper despair, surer failure—for , whatever you hold in your mind has a power of attraction which is absolute.

If you have put yourself on the bargain counter of life, you cannot get off until you believe you can. Begin believing it now, and determine to place yourself amongst the highest-priced goods in the great Store of Liie. —M. PRESTON STANLEY.