THE QUIET CORNER God and Benzine

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 8

THE QUIET CORNER God and Benzine

(Written for The Sun by the Rev. Charles Chandle Assistant City Missioner). WHERE'S a felloic who taps at my door almost every day with the one request: “Could you fix me up for a shave?'' I have never yet seen him with less than a four-days' growth, and if I did I might not know him. He has been given enough for ten shaves on more than one occasion, and now, to-day, I had to he rude to him for the first time, because he still persists in wanting a shave. He certainly wants a clean-up , hut somehow . or other he lacks the determination to put his will behind his wish. He is sparking on the “ want ” plug, hut missing on the “willand until he sparks on both he'll never get anywhere. The truth of the whole matter is that , like a good many more, he needs overhaul. He must have some dust in his carburettor, or else he is feeding on the wrong juice , the hop variety, instead of the benzine of some real religion. A man who tries to get on without God is like a motorist who depends only on his self-starter. The mechanism of a man. like that of an automobile, can be in perfect order, and yet all is useless unless there be concerted action —unless the spark and the juice act together. A Ford with a pint of benzine is better than a Rolls with none. NEXT WEEK : “SINNERS IN HEAVEN."