GETTING AWAY WITH IT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 928, 22 March 1930, Page 8

GETTING AWAY WITH IT

THE QUIET CORNER

W/itten for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler WHERE are a number of people who fool themselves into the belief that they are “getting away with it." They are profitably engaged in some enterprise that yields phenomenal returns for a very meagre investment. So gopd is the proposition that they wonder why it is that the general public does not “wake up" to their joke. And so these get-rich-quicks mount up their returns in a frantic haste to go while the going's good. Poor deluded creatures'. To think in a universe so finely balanced, wherein each of the myriad worlds runs its appointed race with such precision and the slightest irregularity -would shatter the scheme of things entire, there should be any so foolish as to believe that they can get away icith it. These are they who are heading for the outer darkness, “where there shall be iceeping and gnashing of teeth." They are making for some place of disilusionment where they will be shown that posterity is never hoodicinked. It may be that, in that place apart, they icill hear their own stupidity discussed by those who come after them. At least they have to learn that a good name is “more to be desired than gold," and that a clear conscience is “sweeter than the honeycomb;” that while they were busy getting array with it, IT rcas getting areay with them. NEXT WEEK: “ SMILING THROUGH THE RAIN."