SUN WORSHIPPERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 7

SUN WORSHIPPERS

IN the old days before knowledge came into the world and people were groping for the meaning of things and feeling the need of something supreme to look up to, they raised their eyes to the heavens and worshipped the sun. It was something visible, something they could trust to keep its ordered course and dispel the long hours of darkness. Every morning they stretched their hands to it and raised their voices in strange incantations. Every evening their prayers followed it as it sank below the horizon. A trace of that old worship still sleeps in our hearts to-day. Though knowledge has brought us stronger creeds and we know that the sun is not the Supreme Being, a day when his light is obscured fills us with a shadow of the old unrest that troubled our ancestors. Sometimes the feeling is almost imperceptible—we are conscious only that it is a “grey day.” Everything seems to go wrong because the sun is not shining. But when he spills his generous warmth on the hillsides and beaches we are all pagans basking under his discernible eye. Our love for him has come down to us through the ages. Surely it was a sun worshipper who wrote: “Always keep your face toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.” Is that wise saying in your treasure boxes, Chiefs and Braves? REDFEATHER.