DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 18

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY

GET ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF (Copyright, 19t8) rpHE real education of life seems to be getting acquainted There are people who deny the existence of evil and tun talk upon sorrow, but the cult of recognising only the pleasant hardly practical. Every once in a while you hear of a suicide and for of reasons. One girl commits suicide who is 18 years of age and K fc parents will not let her go to a party. If she had gone there she would not have found It much of , M and probably would have forgotten all about it in a few days. was really trivial yet it loomed so terrible before her Hqit %m* seem not worth living. The trouble was she was not acquainted with grief and dU m how to act when she was confronted with a small sorrow. A great many of our suicides are young people. Youth fc ■ Things mean a lot to young people, and one thing we leant Mb advances is that nothing much matters. I have often noticed data poets tend to deal with tragic themes. Eternity and absolutivity are familiar to the mind of yoeti, fell age things seem more temporary. Life is long and the days are long and events are tstsM vtha people, but as we grow older things seem to move faster. It behoves us to learn something of the temper of sorrow. Sorrow is bound to come to us, sooner or lt.ter, and it is 11 gd to get some practice in dealing with it. Thomas Carlyle says that at the heart of every religions qs is a great sorrow, and certain it is that we all learn more fra ow than we do from our laughter. Of all men It can be said, “with his stripes v?e are healed* tad b back over our past we can see that the really instructive things flat come to us have been our mistakes. Get acquainted therefore with grief. Do not shun her, but M her as a grea'. teacher that equips us for life.