Kicks Into The Commonplace

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 8

Kicks Into The Commonplace

THE QUIET CORNER

(Written for The Sun by the Rev. Charles Chandler, As-sistant-City Missioner). ♦- T IFE would be a drab old round if it were not for the glory of the unexpected, either in action or in conversation. An AU Day Sports would be no better than an Undertakers' Picnic; an “Artists Ball" no gayer than a Dorcas Meeting.

There are some words that 'Webster would not own, which, falling from the lips of a sheep drover or a "cabby," put Oxford and Cambridge to scorn. "Cut these loords and they bleed" said Emerson; they are alive, and, furthermore, they express emotions ichich, if suppressed, might put many a hard working citizen into the Mental Hospital. Any spontaneous outburst, either of indignation or enthusiasm, helps to put a kick into the commonplace.

The rude and unlettered fishermen who became the personnel of the greatest organisation in the world, were men whom we might justly suspect of being capable of going outside the radius of a standard dictionary in order to give full expression to their burning sentiments. There is one thing that hinders, more than most things else, the real progress of the bulk of religious institutions of to-day, and that is, they are far too proper. The cult of the boiled shirt and the black cloth has dammed the crystal spring which might otherwise be bursting forth with strength and power.

By an arrangement entered inw with The Sun Jlr. Chandler wiU supply, each Saturday, an article oi this nature. Xext week: ‘‘Backing the Favourite.’'