A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

HUMAN STARS!

Anybody who lias looked at the starry heavens through a telescope realizes how small a proportion of the stars can ho seen without a telescope, ever, by the keenest human eye. Science tells us that all the stars wo can see could be withdrawn from the sky without seriously dimming the light of the heavens; for it is the invisible stars which illumine the dark est night. Without them night would lie enwrapped in blackness. There are many invisible stars on earth hut for whom the world would he a' darker place. Many of the visible human stars of the social firmament might go out. and the radiance of the world he scarcely dimmed; for the real radiance of the world is the light shed upon life’s pathway h.v the invisible human stars —those men and women who give the hand of 'fellowship; speak the word ok hope; fan the fires of ambition; and radiate a sympathy so vital that it lights up the darkened shadows that have fallen in sad men’s hearts. These are the invisible human stars whose lights could not he withdrawn from life without making the world a darker and a gloomier place. Their lives are a benediction, though they may he unknown either to ifame or to glory. -M. PRESTON STANLEY.