FILLETED FOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 8

F ILLETED FOOD

QUIET co RNEE

(Written. for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler, Assistant City Miss-inner.)

THE only thing that keeps most of us from. becoming masters of the arts or sciences is that there lies between the desire and its uchirremcni. a long tedious process of study, covering in some instances a number of years. “"6 are attracted by the advertisement which tells us that we can [corn to play the piano by post in thirty days. There are those who unsuspectingly believe that such a course is possible. and who are proparrd to back up this belief by the payment of a substantial fee in arli'am‘r. The long and short of it is that our fish must br: filletcd. 'W'c prrfcr boneless joints and st'cdless raisins, and are prepared to pay "fanr‘y prices” for filleterl food. The bulk of our reading is made up of stuff that has boon "fillcted." All [he knotty points have. been iakrn. out of the ihrology of those who go no further than the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed. and the Ten Commandments for the ea‘pression of their faith. \ To suoh a. dangerous pass has come this disinclination for serious thought that quitc a lot of us do with our thinking what we do with our trashing—~l4? put it out. There must be Tory fen: obtuse points in, our religion. There must not Dr’ [OO many pips in our oranges. In fact we are prepared to {lO furihrr and pay more for those with neither points nor pips. The many distractions of modern life tend to draw us away from .crrious contemplations, and in consequence we spend fully twenty timrs as much. a head. upon beer as we do upon books. In ofhrr words. our decision as to whether we shall strive to achicrc a certain, physical. mental or spiritual objective does not so 171 uoh. hinge «pan the matter of finance. as it does upon a matter of rfi‘nrr. “‘c would rather pay more and do less, than, pay less and do !'1 Ol‘f'. In spite of all this perhaps we are advancing. TVho knows? NEXT YVEEK: SC’AL PS.