A DAILY MESSAGE
THINGS
l low many of ns seek to find happiness in “ tilings ” and the possession of things,” and how often we find that tilings which wc 'fondly imagined we possessed have come to possess us! How many of ns succumb to the lust lor possession, only to find ourselves hound in the fetters of our own covetousness, which, though invisible, are none the less hard to break! ’
Quite a large proportion of life’s unhappiness is caused by the possession ot too many “ things.” J)on’t let material. things possess you. .Someday, when you are tired and grey, you may he trying to recall OLiier things—the things which you should have done for a struggling brother, the things you should have given to the 'friend in need, the things you should have said to the chap in the shadow, the tilings you didn’t do, just because you had too many material things—things which von thought you possessed, hut which came to>possess you.
—M. PRESTON .STANLEY-*
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1929, Page 1
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166A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1929, Page 1
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