GOOD ADVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3734, 22 December 1906, Page 2

GOOD ADVICE.

Bishop Wallis speaking to the boys at the prize-giving ceremony at the Wanganui Collegiate School on Wednesday preferred some sound advice. He said : ‘ ‘ Difficulties had to be fought, and if a boy did his duty that was the main thing. To the boys leaving the school, he said that one of the poorest prizes they could get was that of getting as rich as they could. While travelling recently he had heard a great deal of talk about money making, this being especially so in America, where on

every train the one incessant subject of conversation was of the almighty dollar. He thought the Americans a fine people, but he believed they knew less of joy and rest than any other people in the world, and this he attributed to their quest for money. Personally he did not see any use in hoarding up money, and considered it the worst thing a person could do. The joy of life was not the making of money, but simply doing the best that we could to make the world better. They should not be talking about money making, or how the most money was made. He advised them to have nothing to do with gambling. It was hard to say whether it was wrong to play whist, or such games, but they should have nothing at all to do with playing for money, not even for penny points.’’—To all of which we say, amen!