REALISATION.

Otaki Mail, 25 August 1922, Page 4

REALISATION.

(Chapter 15, Continued). By If. ,1. Ryder. Pray, tell me how on earth the work- j ,-r- ever managed tu control money? j dog." V.s. we kiiou that was so, and ) I suppose it would Lave been so si ill j j „nlv for this irood old man showing us j i ,) 1:i '; for 11)21 year- we had been trying i j ~, sr Cl the impossible. Be showed us ; ; ,!,:,, money was the ''"•>: of mofl evil ; | ;,„d more in partieulur was it so with j borrowed money. As that was so lie j I could see the only way to improve mat- ! , iers was In bring down it- value, so he | I .el to work in real earnest with that i ol ,j ( , ct i„ view. He showed the work- j ! ers linn if they worked for very low j , v;i ,,.- it would only require thousands ! instead of millions to pay them. This | j would reidease million- of pounds, and ! ; |, v releasing millions from where it was j 1 „ow in ii-e thai woill'l Heed the mar- ! . k-t with money. A- money i- eNactly like lahoiu and solely d« pend.- upon ole- : ]l: ,,„d ;! „,.| -apply, and once the detmuid J tor money ceased down came the rate 1 ~,' inn-rest, and down il came with a j rush, and one,.- the workers .-ne. I lie j t eltee.t then they were not -low to grasp j ' ~t the right thing onee it had 1" put 1 |,ofore litem. This old man clearly saw ! ' that if our ways were uol mended we , . must surely run amock. and that ere long ,ve should rot produce food enouek to frcd us as too many people ! wanted to live in town. Now- there is „,, f.-ar cd' IliaT, for more or less the ! hied to get a glimpse of country life ; : and see the hard-hips the farmer has I to put up with. Then all hid- that are at college are talon into the country . 1 at harvest time and taught how the ; harvests are uaUiered. end shown thai ! I althoush they are expected to he great du'-iors. seieiitist-. teachers, etc., that; I it is al-o essential for them to be taught , ! how food i- grown and harvested, and ; j it i- here one of our best lessons has j 'be'Mi taught. In your dt.y you thought! I that the mar; who was highly educated ' should not have to do hard work: now: !-.■.,> teach them that the more education j "they have the more they must work.' if onlv to -et good example to other- • I 10 show them thai it is no disgrace to I i work because they are very highly edu- I ,j cated. but that it is a duty to them- I selves and the public. They fully] i realised that example is better than j precept, hence our altered conditions \ to-day. Another thing this good old ; | man saw to was this, he saw by th<* . i manner that the poor people were fore- ' i cd to buy their good- in dribs and j ' drat'-, and this entailed no end of ex- j tin labour, and if the whole of the peo- j pie eould only be served a- the rich j people are served, which 1- largely in j a wholesome manner, what :t huge am- j ' ount of labour would be saved. The ; old man also knew it was the poor peo- : pie who wasted, while in most eases , the rich were Very careful. Therefore.; j if the poor people were to get their j goods in bulk they must be taught a few simple home truth- sneh :■- " Wa-re not want not." and those that wast-'d j must be punished av.d wore wheic- wil- j nil waste was proved to have thkes i i place. Thi- -con proved a regular j boon and we found we r-ould serve ah J and sundry in a wholesale manlier. In j ] many cases we have our voluntary doc- , !tors"to thank for many improvements.; I Tor instance it v,= - sbowx in England j ' during the great war that the people i •were more healthy than they were prior; to the war. hence they soon saw that , , many luxuries that you hnd in your day j i were cut out altogether, and this again ( saved unnecessary labour. I will give j you a very simple case in your time: ; The poor people bought mostly new j

bread and ate it; the day they bought it; now the baker who sells new bread knows that he' is liable to be fined. | Brown bread is also more freely used. and the people being unable to get that j which is not good for them arc the bet-1 ter off, and a huge saving takes place i all round. Of course there arohun-j dreds of other things that we have done.; /that are equally helpful to the good of, mankind as those that I have illustrated to you. Then, is there no other I great good this old man did.' N OS, j thero is one most important thing he ; did, and from close observation he saw; that we already had on earth quite a : lot Of voluntary workers. Well, there \vc>re none in my day. Oh yes there; were. AVhat about all your Sisters of ■ Mercy thai are doing all sorts of work . such as caring for orphan children,: teaching in school, nursing the sick,, etc.,' TJien you had your great Salvation Army. I think most of the captains and lassies were paid sufficient to live, but largely they worked for lovej and the good they were trying to do. So the old man saw improvement '■>'.-; |twecn the different sections of the pub-! | lie. which were as much in need of improvement as any other. lie saw that I a spirit of almost hatred existed between the different religious bodies, | uii'l being a broad-minded man he set | himself to work to alter that state of affairs. Now, was there anything more | of great importance that this old man : accomplished,' The next good thing' j the old man did was to get all the leadling ladies of society together and a j ! merry time he gave them. They tell, j me these ladies came along in all sorts, I of fashions and frills, high-heeled , shoos, painted face-, and such like. The old man opened forth by asking how ( ] many actresses there were present, and us no one replied the old man said, well,, there was a time when only actresses j ! painted, but now apparently things j have changed. What I want to know, I of example von are setting the public.' j ; Some of' you evidently think of little, ! else but dress, and that V because you : ! do not think deep. I am exceedingly; Lorry to have to -peak so plainly to- ; you, but one and all of you know that ! prostitution is on the iuerease. Von j must also know that it is largely on ae-j ! count of the way you ladies dress. Not I ! a bit of it. came from someone. .Vow j •ladies, you know you are continually i j trying to out-do one another in dress., j and many of your husbands can ill ai- ! ford to dress you as I see you to-day. j ; A lady who has a husband thai cannot , i possibly nfiv.nl to dress her in this manner is forced to resort to prostitution j j just to enable her TO be able 10 -ires:- ! I as well as any other lady, and you j [ ladies knou that any woman who is liv- I j tug from i icy derived either directly I or indirectly by prostitution is always , j Messed in the most lavish style. Now ; ,his type of woman would not be so . : popular if dressed plainer, so you should ; : sec that it behoves all of you to dross ' smartly, neatly, and inexpensively. 1, : i- largely owing to this dressing down | | that the old man gave those ladies that ; ! you see dressed as you do this morning. I I We are nou taught to think of other* j | as well a* ourselves, whereas in your j ■ day you thought that because you had ; th o money you .-.odd have anything j your heart desired, and never om.-e : thought of those that had to -it early | wreck homes and aid and abet uLat I i j have already poiuti d out to you, and j ■ cause endless toil that was simply v.n-r-j ' all very simple when it is put b "lie j manner, and without a doubt ; on ' ■ v.- i a lot to thank liv- plain out-spoken ■. 1 :•. The i-:„-. of the n.aM.-i '-• had this j '■ ; .,-.j. ticl >• a -take and burned to I ; a;.d he asked them if they were all | ' ~.„. and in • \ ■ • voi- •_■ they said ■' Uer- j ■ tainly we are." The old man then , said all I have to say is that you are • | going a funny way about it. I will try. j and explain where you arc wrong. If | ! a member of '-re church alters hi- i;-:n 1 ! 1 an ,j ,_„„., to another church, and art >■ : ! ther one does just the opposite, the ! two ministers concerned arc dagger-, 1 drawn because they have lost one of j ,: r i k -■ ' ■ -c •'■•■ ' \ : 1 .!- I ; iri . still striving to get to heaven: | they are not denouncing the Almighty - : ~, .loing anything very wrong, they are i only going a different road to get there, and instead of fighting over who i- go-i j ir,u" to convince them that -hey Lave - ! .ton,, wruEg set to work, and instead. try and get two more to join your ! rani*; that are against all cliurehes. and j who are sowing seeds of destruction, j ! The old man talked to all those heads , 1 of religious bodies in such a kind, -imj pie. and impressive manner ;aat he got . ! then; all to a man to sec and admit ' j that there was a better way of doing ! their work than the way they had beet; truing about it. Now. said the old man. th.-re i- one more great point that you are all overlooking. \VhaT might that he they asked! Well. 1- • - simply -his: i ' You are overlooking the fact that you : are nor fostering a better felling amtor it'- quite a prs-jimon oer-nrrenoe to '■ hear Catholic children called "cattle ! dogs" and Protestant children called -.-. "ii all agree that it is only natural ! :',.; children to follow in t' sir parent's \ footsteps. That being so you .should ; all do you best ro foster a better feelj ing than eiist- to-day. and on no •'-■ 1 count allow a feeling of bitter hatred ' to grow up in the minds of our young '• children. Christ taught us to love one ■ another, not hate on.-- another, so now • '; I pray that as I Lave brought you to- ! gether in future- you wi!! do all in your ; I power and foster for all you are worth ' ! a better feeling berweea yen :*'. irre-

spective of denomination, for I feel sure you will agree with me that no | sane person ever wants to see religious strife grow, and without a doubt it is i growing to-day. There is also another I thing that 1 think you go the wrong I way about, and that is you preach that this is a lovely world and everything I iu it is perfect. That is so came from the majority. I want to show you that ' is not so, and you cannot expect to suc- ! ceetl in your teachings u.-Jc.-s you teach ; the truth. Oh, yes, Mr, surely you don't take us to be such a bad lot of • men. Xo I just take you for what you 1 are worth. Some of you are worthy : no doubt of the responsible positions you hold in life, bul if you wanted to I go home and think ami realise that j there are always good and bad in each 'and every nation, and equally so in ' thing but a perfect world. Oh, we cannot allow .von to talk like this, said the chairman. Pardon me. give me time to stale my case. 1 have drawn ! vou peoph together to try and mend , "matters, not to make them worse, and I it you will only allow me time I feel ; -are 1 shall succeed. Very we'll, we 'will give you plenty of time to state your cause, for I really believe you mean good, even ii you arc wrong. Thank you, Mr chairman, that gives me confidence, and 1 will now do my bc-t to show you 1 am tight. ZSow, do we not largely live off one another, and man being tit the top of the lot, he naturally kills ami eats till below hum Ttthc Cor instance a lovelj innocent little bitd lo get its food; it has to gobble up insects, then in turn the cat has to gobble the bird. Do not the lisL in the sea eal one another, and the most of them would situ ce if they did not. So it gm s on right through life, bet me siiow you that the same thing applv> In us human being.-. Take two family's parents are killed by accident while the children are young, and their children are left to the cruel world. The other family arc allowed their parents to guide them in life until tin"are well advanced in years, it is in this way that 1 say it is a cruel, hard world, and that we should be taught to realise it in that maimer. J trust now thai yon have mei you will meet once annually, and that you will al ways bear in mind how Christ taught by love, thai i- your object of meetine; together thai you may gradually get closer and closer to his way of teaching. "What has beet; the outcome of their meeting? Well, Sir. simply nothing, but good. What else could happen under such conditions. The wry fact of all t'hese great preachers meeting together completely broke down an imaginary barrier that had existed foi ages past, and now that has disappeared then: i- a far betler feeling between them. Kat-h year Hie conditions are becoming better. Well, to say the least, the odd man tried to foster good. Yes. and it is us who are living to-day who realise how thankful we all should be for t.l! the old man did for us. Did the old man ever toll anybody what mad.- hiu take the trouble to point out ail the p.0.l things that he did ' Well, as fai as He can |.-:,t:i. I I obj, i-t was to show while !■•■ had be, ,- i.iuid lot I ). ci -til, ::• ' Aha- y . It;.- e ; .!■! out of the common, and 1 e.ili be quit" frank at d tell you that we have only erected just what was the old man V v.-is-h, for the old fellow -aw t'r this bewith those letters V.S.C. under-lined v. ith -'For Good and Happinc " Vou • ill ob ■-- '. that it is continually on tin ■.•... being -.-.oiked by eleetrici'y. i;i, ! y, .•■•■■•• i • any great statue -■■ ■■:;■ 'I ,-. real life Oh no. the old n: '- v. !-■ •■ -. ■ :.■•■ the fairy tinio:. to be built in marble he knew i; would last for nil tine.-, and he -aid he had no dc-siie for ••ny rs»i to have to toil for week- and ruoi.th- to hue out his figure in stone. I" not his name engraved upon that marble bo!), and what wa= Lis object for having the bail revolving? Well, he -aid he hoped his fairy union would never cease to grow. and he felt if we wer* always reminded by the revolving bail that we would never let hi- great union die. Her- 1 _■■-.' quit, eh-.-.- and read the old man's name- Jon--. Thi- •■• as too much for r-.e Now did you really dream all that you have related to as. or have yoa too been ir. hospital like n y good husband, and httd time to think all this Out. for it'.; all .■- real and -m.rde. and oh so different from any dream I have ever had or evt'T heard related. Vou know rr. n-: \ dreams are so silly they often cause one to start, and many of the funny thir-gs that run through one's head ofi ten make= one laugh, but really one cannot help thinking that you eould no: dream of all the fine, simple good things you have related to -us. Well, mother. vou had given rne the credit of being straight and fair aii through, and I am I am going to tell you that it was not ; my luck to dream either what I have just rc-lated to you, or what I related bv hard, deep thinking. Have £ r.nrold vou rha- the brains of the head ;.!,• yu-t like the muscles of your body. They develop ii you exercise them.