A DAILY MESSAGE
THE LAST REVEILLE i “Lu’k” is a great word. It is the most expressive word in the language. It is more than .character, beauty, wisdom, goodness. Jt is life, aiul life is all of these, and something more.
Lite is too short, all too short. The wise ones come through its trials, sorrows, and shadows, and, lo! just as they have plucked the apple of wisdom, they pass away, ere they can show its beauty to the world.
No great teacher ever found life long enough for his ministry. No great reformer ever found life long enough for liis plans. No great artist or poet ever found life long enough to reproduce the beauty of his deepest dreams, for life is short, and ours .is passing now.
Time is gathering in our years, and the tale will soon be told. What should we feel if we knew we had only one day left—if we knew we were standing face to face with eternity? We should think of the love ungiven, df the tilings undone, of the sorrow we might have lightened, of the pain we might have softened, of the sympathy we might have given—of the things worth while.
How we sho Id regret our harsh, mean, petty, paltry, hitter, destructive thoughts, words, and actions!
Why wait for the last day? Why not meet life daily as though we had to give a reckoning on the morrow? Why wait to be awakened by the trumpet sounding the last revi 116?
—M. PRESTON STANLEY
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 1
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256A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 1
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