OMNIBUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 10

OMNIBUSES

THE QUIET CORNER

(Written (or THE SUE by the Rev. Charles Chandler, Assistant City Missioner.) f\UR minds are like omnibuses. Thoughts are the passengers. Life represents the journey, and the only through-passengers on these omnibuses are race-thoughts and instincts. The rest get on and get off after having stayed aboard for distances of varying length. Some thoughts hang on the running board like impudent urchins. They shout at us. and by so doing divert our attention from larger issues. After having worked their little bit of havoc with our lives they hurriedly alight. The small Hates are of this category. Some of our mental passengers are very obstinate. They persist in staying on when we want them to get off. 'Superstitions are of this ilk. Long after we have passed the sign which reads, “Think for Yourself,” these portly old people keep to their seats. It is surprising how well all the passengers seem to get on with each other. It is not at all uncommon to find Prejudice and Love sitting cheek by jowl. Thoughts of Kindness have been known to give up their seats to those of Revenge; nay, have in some instances got off the omnibus altogether, in order to make room for these less worthy people. A cosmopolitan crowd they are to be sure , with Will on the box seat holding the reins. Toward the journey’s end these passengers scurry off , leaving the omnibus to jolt along more lightly freighted, icith only one or two aboard—a couple of deep rooted convictions, and a belief in immortality. NEXT WEEK: “ GAFOOPSES .”