The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday at Noon. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920. EASTER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 520, 6 April 1920, Page 2

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday at Noon.

TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920. EASTER.

"We nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

Like all times universally observed with ceremonies, Eastertide symbolise something great and grand in the evolution of humanity. Easter commemorates the spirit of sacrifice, self-sacrifice for the sake of others. In these days of continued strife, in the industries, in political spheres, and in the divorce courts, we see a multitude of proofs that the spirit of sacrifice is conspicuous by its absence. Rather, it seems, the doctrine of "each for himself and the devil take the hindmost," is the unwritten j law, and the man who can over- J reach his fellow gains both material j riches and the plaudits of the crowd. | F.ut be sure that, in the fulness of j time, it is the nobler ideals which J prevail: ever and anon the unscrupulous ones triumph, but inevitably that triumph is short-lived, and gives place to the vitalising, irresistible force of nobler ideals. Germany was a nation buttressed with stupendous military power, but because the ideals of that nation were antiChristian and selfish to the core, then down went the Teuton before the sweeping hosts of nations whose sons had girded their loins in order to fight for humane ideals. And so it is with the individual -selfishness never pays in the long run; material and spiritual comfort can only oecome enduring when warmed and vitalised in the glow of a glorious sacrifice which lifts the individual to the highest plane of humanity.