DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 28, 26 April 1927, Page 16

DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

OASES (Copyright , 1927.) WE should be glad that in life’s desert are frequent oases. We do not have to travel all the time. There are spots where the camels can rest and ease their burdens, and where you may drink refreshing draughts at the bubbling springs. „ , . ~ In the first place, there is sleep. This usually comes to all of us in hours. If we are fortunate enough to be good sleepers we can lay down our burdens, no matter how serious they are, and enjoy several hours of vacation, even though the burdens stand ready by the side of our bed to leap upon us the next morning. ... , „ . Places of entertainment and shows are oases. Their principal value to us is that while we are enjoying them we forget ourselves. The value of entertainment depends upon its absorbing power, its ability to take us away from ourselves. To be sure, the old man of the sea that ages us stands ready at the door to leap upon our backs as we come out, a while we have had surcease. A friend is an oasis. Goethe say s. “ This world is so waste and empty when we figure but towns and hills and rivers in it, but to know that someone is living on with us in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.” _ How a friend rests you! To know that someone is for you no mauer what happens, to know that someone 1 oves you and believes in you that *• decidedly an easement to our burdens. Faith is an oasis. To believe in y ourself, in your star or destiny, somehow eases the load you have to carry. To believe in other people is a rest, and above all to believe in the supreme go odness, that there is an all Father will carry all our burdens for us if w e know how to cast our burden upo*i Him. This makes life bearable. It is not so arranged that we must carry, our load continually. Nothing is continual. Life is rhythmic. There are nights and Sundays and other vacation times when we lay our harness by and rest the chafed places. Thank heaven for the oases of life!