TALKS TO CHILDREN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 9

TALKS TO CHILDREN.

By Rev. E. W 'ffc'D.

THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF'THINGS

There '"-always is a* brighter side. There valways,- Is. a ailyer ; lining ; our copybooks say soy and it must- be true. Even .'a bee lias two ends-—a. honey end and.Va stingihg^endf V So has life.; And Aye vvant toy get •liol<l of the honey end of life almbsteyery time. . Some people seem to have got into a diabit of looking on tfye darker side "of things. They must be rather miserable folk, I think. One glorious spring morning, after a long stretch of dull, cold weather. I Avalked quickly across tlie-street, with, both hands out, to greet ono of my friends. Isn't it a ripping morning ?": I said. . ■ - "Yes, he replied-with the voice of a AA r et blanket; "but I hear that the' glass is going doAA'])." ; A rather stupid man, don't you think? We want" to grow a habit in the opposite way. And while avc are" boys and girls is the time to begin. Make the best of things. Think the best things about everybody. Always Avhistle and smile. Be bright. Scatter Sparkles. of Light . round about you. . On our breakfast table on Sunday mornings there is '"always a coffee-pot and a teapot, because I like tea, and the Person-in-Authority,:' the AngelAA r ho-a-ttends-to-things likes coffee. She says that it keeps her aAvake during my. dry sermons. The coffee-pot. is tall and thin, with a straight spout at one side and a handle at the other. Tlie teapot is fat and round, arid'both are very shiny. One Sunday morning I Avas a little doAvn in the month and. Avas not engaging in conversation as a proper-ly-brouglit-up husband ought to do, but Avas looking straight yin front of mc. And I suddenly aAvoke to the fact that I Avas looking into the side of the cof-fee-pot ; and you. shoulct have seen my facel Very long-draval-out, and thin, and sad, and solemn. I'was horrified, and begged the Per-son-in-autliority to put the teapot at my side and