THE REASON WHY.
A country clergyman, preaching t% very dull sermon, set all his congregation asleep, except a poor fellow, who was generally considered deficient in intellect. At length the reverend orator, looking round, exclaimed, "What, all asleep but this poor idiot?" "Ay, ,, quoth the fellow, "and if I had not been an idiot I should have gone to sleep too." ' * •■ •' .'' The man who thinks cannot fail to be a nonconformist. He will not conform to conventional lies or laws or formulas. His soul revolts at the-thou-; sand petty meannesses of everyday life. He must : he cannot conform 'tothe life around him..
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 39, 1 December 1911, Page 16
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102THE REASON WHY. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 39, 1 December 1911, Page 16
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