THINGS THAT MATTER
THE SILENCE OF NATURE How silent is the Itiw of growth, which fills the earth with so much richness and beauty: so noiseless are all the finer operations of Nature that they would not disturb the lighest slumber of infancy, or destroy the pose of an insect’s wing. * * * * 1 think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost ■ as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. You know wlmt happens under these circumstances: everybody present soon gets rapt in abstraction —one looks at the ceiling another at the fire, one sighs, and another perhaps yawns. Lord Beacon fieldi. -X- -X- -X- -XThere was uo sympathy for the weary and heavy laden until Christianity came.
-X- -X- -X- 46Let us take care how we speak of those who have fallen on life’s field. Help them up, not heap scorn upon them. We did not see the conflict. Wo do not know the snares.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1931, Page 1
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161THINGS THAT MATTER Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1931, Page 1
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