NOTHING IS FINAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4693, 2 May 1924, Page 1

NOTHING IS FINAL.

EVERY PUZZLE HAS A SOLUTION. Nothing is final. F.o many people give up. if thev would go on they would discover America, like Columbus did. T.hat little company on the Pinta the Nina, and the Santa Maria are a good type of its all. They were afraid. All about them was the dreadful unknown Imagination had peopled the sei with monsters. They were sailing where man had never sailed before, which calls for the last reserves of courage. They wanted to turn back, they threatened mutiny. Only the iron-willed Columbus said, “Sail on!" So we venture into to-morrow, an uncharted water. We know not what we shall find. The ghosts of our fears and fancies threaten us. Wr shrink from the future. We would quit, turn back. We are like the sailors. But let me rather be like Columbus. Nothing, is final. Have you lost money ? Has your business failed ? Is poverty staring .you in the face ? You know not which way to turn. You say you arc “up against it.” You sit and brood. Despair is your companion. Go on . To-morrow lies before you. Who knows what is there ? Perhaps the land of Success is 'Ju,st beyond the horizon and to-morrow's sun will reveal it, palm-fringed and glistening. You have lost your position. You have lost your love. Disgrace has fallen upon you. Disease has attacked you. Friends have deserted you. Oi some other calamity shadows you. Go on ! Life is not a fixed point. Life is a stream, ever flowing. It is a. moving picture continually unfolding. It is a strange tale : there will be another chapter after this. Let us see what is in it. Thank God, no man knows the ftlturc. Let bur curiosity keep up our spirit. Life is an unending adventure. Nothing is final. Life is a puzzle. But every puzzle has a solution. To high hearts and undaunted minds there is always bone.