FROGS IN THE DOWN PIPE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 10

FROGS IN THE DOWN PIPE

THE QUIET CORNER.

(Written for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler.) M ANY people ‘wonder why they are not registering more successfully on the barometer of success, both in matters material and spiritual , and success to be real must be in both of these departments of our lives, so little understood. When studying one or other of the many religious formulas, they fail to see just where they go wrong. Treated as a problem in arithmetic it appears that the sum has been worked out right, and yet the answer does not agree with that set down in the Good Boole. But then, life is not a problem in mathematics, or, if it is, ice have not been able to discover the intricate working out of its laws. Neither can it be an equation, quadratic or otherwise; in fact there are times ivhen ice doubt the divine equity that appears to punish the righteous, and let the sinner go scot free. Eventually, like a company of people trying to answer a schoolboy's conundrum —• we give it up. The late Dr. F. B. Meyer, when touring Australia some years ago , told many stories, yet none so memorable as the following: — ‘‘The gutters of my house were overflowing. I called a plumber in. He looked at the job, and then went for his mate. Then they both had a look , had lunch, and went for their tools. While they were/ away I got busy. I poked here, and I poked there, and at last I heard a croak. The next moment down came a frog. Then the water flowed freely, and the plumbers returned with their tools , only to find that the job had been done.'’ • “Frogs in the downpipe." That's the trouble with a lot of us who can't work the sum out right. Something has got i,n between us and infinite Supply. A sjnall hate, or a little fear; just something . and it cannot be got at by any plumber, but only by ourselves who, like the doctor, are prepared to do a little probing on our own account. NEXT WEEK: THE COCK-EYED WORLD." (An unscreened version.)