PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION

WORK. , - “ ‘Men ought to work.’ True and timely the saying is, but we may sadly abuse the undoubted fact. We may overdo work. That is an imminent danger with industrious people. We may make it the be-all and end all of life. This is a disastrous blunder. Dean Vaughan has a striking sermon on ‘The. idolatry of work.’ All too readily do some men turn work into an idolatry. ‘Men ought- to work.’ Yes, but there are other duties they must not neglect. We must not lose our real self in work. We must build up our character.”—Dr. Dinsdale Young in the “Methodist Magazine.”

THE SNARE OF AMUSEMENTS. “We all know the kind of life which 'is one of discontinuity,” said Dr. Temple, Archbishop of York, at a meeting of the Church of -England Men’s Society. “It is summed up in the familiar saying, ‘Life is one damn thing after another.’ That is what life may be, and will be, unless you make it different. The various things which you are doing, unless you make them different, will thoroughly deserve that epithet attached to them. The snare of our generation,” said Dr. Temple, “is to be found in the possibility of being endlessly, though also innocently, amused. It is a -real snare, because though all might know that a life of a- series of amusements was a futile, and therefore a miserable, one, yet at any given moment each opportunity for amusement is very attractive, and at the moment it seems more attractive than something which will call for more effort on our part.”