WAYSIDE MINISTRIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1930, Page 1

WAYSIDE MINISTRIES.

THE DIFFICULT WAY. The course of the river is often broken by sudden rapids or perilous eddies. The life of the Christian is not one perpetual How of buoyant melody. It has its breaks, its discords, its attritions. Like the river, its course is often fretted by the eddies of trouble, or disturbed by the sandbars of defeat.

■3f * * * it is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. A slave may be a freeman; a monarch may be the slave. Situations are noble or ignoble as we make them. —F. W. ROBERTSON. ■K The voice of Time cries to man, “ Advance.” Time is for his advancement and improvement, for Iris greater worth, his greater happiness, his better life. C. DICKENS. ! ; ■ . * * • * * * , Virtue lies in the effort, not the prize. —Addison.

1 ment in Empire matters in general and trade matters in particular, and -1 know that is the wish of tbe people of New Zealand. In leaving New Zealand I regret the position of the country is not as satisfactory as one might wish. However, I am quite convinced that right throughout the whole country, there is a determination to face the difficulties with which we are faced, and 1 am quite sure that this attitude, which one cannot help but admire, will result in early return to that condition of prosperity, which it has been our fortune to enjoy for several years past.” Mr Forbes added that he was leaving New Zealand secure in the knowledge 1 that the affairs of the country would be safe in the hands of his colleagues in Cabinet. Mr Forbes leaves for Auckland this evening.