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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 198, 22 August 1874, Page 2

Divine Service.—The Rev. Mr. Root will hold service to-morrow morning and evening, in the Court House, at the usual hours.

Sunday School.—A panorama of the Artic Regions, kindly lent by the Sunday School Union, will be exhibited in the Courthouse on Wednesday evening next at 7 o’clock Spurious Coin.—The Napier Telegraph warns the public that several tradesmen in that town have bad base coin passed upon them lately. It does not particularize ; but as some of it may find its way down here, tradespeople had better look out.

Church Matters.—Our readers will be gratified to learn that the Bishop of Waiapu has added over £250 by subscriptions to the Church Building Fund, through his own exertions, since his arrival. This sum swells the list to upwards of £5OO, to this may be added £75 from the Society for the Promotion of Christian knowledge, which, with the prospect of further gratuitous aid, is very gratifying, and leaves a hope that the Church will be opened without the incubus of debt. Mr. Morgan’s tender, being the lowest in amount, has been accept cd, and will be put in hand at It is a Mistake to Suppose that — A man is lazy because he is not always working with his hands. Mental work is quite as great a fatigue to the human body, through the mind, as physical labour, even the hardest.

It is a Mistake to Suppose that — Education is thrown away because a man leads a bush life, and works hard in his laborious occupation. His mental faculties, having been cultivated, has a tendency to ease his bodily labor, at all events to make him work more cheerfully and easily under it. Educated men and women adapt themselves much more readily to any new phase in their lives, however great tlie change may be. It is a Mistake to Suppose that — There is any degradation in labour, and the man must have a warped judgment and stinted mind who so argues. I have heard the good Bishop Selwyn preach a most, admirable sermon on “ The Nobility of Labour.”

It is a Mistake, the greatest that can be committed, to Suppose that — An idle life is the happiest life; or that the man is happy who has nothing to do. The man who has regular employment or occupation is decidedly the most happy man; his time never hangs heavy on his hands.

It is a Mistake to Suppose that — A man. at times sitting still and apparently lazy, is in reality so ; his mind is probably at work upon future operations, and time is not wasted in well considering the work he has in hand, either for himself, or for the benefit of others.