THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1911.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 December 1911, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1911.

THIS is the time when the "world is buay with, a peculiar idea. It lias set its heart of tho fulfillment ut an ideal of generosity, If you turn your eyes to the shops the windows are full of the substance and detail of human artifice. If you look about yeu it is to sense a spirit of anticipation and unrest. The looms of the world havo clacked for this particular period. The mind anl heart of the world have divined and hands' executed that this particular season might be joyous. And if you are not of this harmony, mentally and physically, not in tune with this that you see, and know that you should feel, it is because of some

untoward condition in your affairs, some distress of the heart or brain which the world or yourself is either not willing or able to remedy.

The world in the mass is singing a song. Jf you are of the joyous army, —all thinp-s prosperous with you, your house in order, your children in health, the world smiling upon you commer - cially,—bless fate that you have prospered so thoroughly and turn your eyes and your intentions to those who have little or nothing. It is a grim world that you live in at the best.

Your neighbour is not necessarily as strong as you. Hip eyes may not be so good, his mind so clear, his body 80 strong. He may be at this moment wondering which way he shall turn for sustenance, harried by disaase, beleaguered by debt, striken with a score of ills of which you are not con' scious, of which your particular existence has never been aware. You are going to give things to those you love —your daughter, your son, your wife, your husband. Cannot, in this season of idealism, the realm of your tenderness be a little extended.

Possibly you have some one nea r you of whom until now you have nev6r thought. Perhaps you will pas 3on your way home this day some home where your wisdom,; your good will, your tenderness, and, above all, jour means, would serve as a saving grace. Enter in charity's name, and angels of light will precede you. The doors of the helpless are many. And now when you are giving in charity and and affection, remember also that it is not charity which, the world needs but justice and honest service. . If the world only rendered justice and honest service, in office, in shop, in factory in the home, much of this need which you know is poignant at this time, would not be here. You can render good service, uot to day only, but next week, next month, every day and every year. And as you strive for the amelioration of the race's troubles in the large sense, so in the smaller will your own become less and less.