OLD AGECOUNSELS
“It is the part of a bishop to give warnings of the unsuspected strength of dangerous currents or the proximity of hidden rocks. . . The wisest human counsellor is he who leads the sinner to need human counsel less. To me the quenching of the smoking flax by the stamping out of an endeavour to discuss thus privately our differences would—l ' ■ say unhesitatingly—have seemed to be a sin against God. I do think one mends one’s ways as the years run on and that 'one is tenderer at 80 than he was at 50, and I pray God,; that if it might he, the example of an old man who strives with all his soul for gentleness, may, despite his own failures, bear fruit in the lives of those who have happily still a long, way to march, and many opportunities to grasp, before their 80 comes?’—The late Archbishop Davidson,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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151OLD AGECOUNSELS Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 7
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