BREAKING GAOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 8

BREAKING GAOL

THE QUIET CORKER

(Written for The Sun by the Rev. Charles Chandler, As-sistant-City Missioner) ♦» +—— like a monster at the foot of a sun-kissed hiU, is Mount Eden Gaol. Its sombre walls y and its watch towers suggest captivity to those who are without , and seclusion to those who are within. Thoughts of liberty haunt the minds of those inmates as they pace their narrow cells . and every bird that lodges , if but for a moment upon the windowsill , is an enviable creature , free to fly into the face of the sunset , or to leave its nest at the break of dawn. Yety for all the privations and the losses which those prisoners feel, they are not so strongly bound in chains as thousands of those who walk down Queen Street to-day. “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ” and the walls of fear erected around the human mind deprive more people of their liberty to win in some great achievement | than ever entered the hopeabandoning gates of a penitentiary. Fear is the precursor of all tears , and is the sprag in the wheel of all human progress, and yet the power is given to us all to break out of this prison house and enter into the glorious freedom of the sons of God. With the realisation of that indwelling power, we push our own horizons out , and walk with firmer tread toward a fairer dawn. By an arrangement entered into with The Sun Mr. Chandler win supply, each Saturday, an article ot this nature. Next week: Kicks Into the Commonplace.”