A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

UNDERSTANDING IS EDUCATION !

Jr you have sympathy with the common cause and are eager to espouse it— If those weaker than yourself can call upon you in your strength—-

If you can make friends <yl those who need friends—and lie a friend — If self-interest lias not become your god— If you can love a little child—even the child of nobody—

If the lonely dog will 'follow you home— If you see “voursell ’’ in every human tragedy—

If you are good for something in this life—and prove it— If you can look into the lace ol a criminal and see there something that moves you to infinite pity—

If, behind the mask of the painted jezebel, you can see the women she was meant to he-

ll you can look at the sell-righteous man with sorrow—

If you are not dependent upon others for your happiness—and can hold on to vourself to the end —

If you have strong and positive convictions—and express them— Ilf you can see a sermon in a ilower. a brook, or a tree— You are a well-educated person in the best sense of the word, even though you may never have spent, a dav in any school.

—M PRESTON STANLEY