Boomerangs

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 8

Boomerangs

THE QUIET CORNER

(Written for The Sun by the Rev. Charles Chandler. Assistant City Missioner) / had it in mind at one time, as a result of a slogan I had invented, to start a laundry. It was to have been called The Boomerang Laundry, with the slogan, “Everything you send comes back," written large over the door. It was never started, however, for I entered a spiritual laundry instead, where, in place of taking stains out of mere clothes, ivc endeavour, through the agency of the Gospel, to take stains out of characters, to iron creases out of sorry records, and to introduce a little stiffening into spiritual invertebrates. Well, returning to the boomerang idea, I tvant to say that not only everything you send, but everything you think comes back. If those thoughts be good, they will return to bless; but, if they be evil, they will return to curse. Is it any wonder that Isaiah recommended that the wicked man should forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and that he should, in true boomerang fashion, return unto the Lordf The boomerang, besides being an Australian emblem, might also l>c used as a religious symbol, signifying that neither the thoughts of God nor man can return unto them void, but must accomplish those things whereunto they -were directed. "He who ruleth his spirit (his thoughts) is greater than he who talceth a city." Next Week: Spiritual Invertebrates.