A SOLDIER'S WISDOM.
Here are some extracts from the writings of "A Student-in-Arms,". a brilliant young soldier writer in the Spectator, Since killed in action:
''The true wisdom is that it is not what- a man does, or lias, or savs, that matters; but what he is.
"This must be the aim of practical philosophy— to make a man be somewhat.
"The world judges a man by his station, inherited or acquired. God judges by his character. To be our best .we must share Clod's view-point. "To the worlds-death is always a tragedy; to the Christian it is never a tragedy, unless a. man has been a contemptible character.
"Religion is the widening of a man's horizon so as to include Cod.
"The recognition of God's presence upsets the balance of a man's environment, and means a new birth into a new life. "The faculties which perceive God increase with use like any other perceptive faeulties.
"To be the centre of one's universe is misery. To have one's universe centred in God. is the peace that passeth understanding. '■ Greatness is founded on inward peace.
"Energy is only effective when it springs from deep calm."
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1917, Page 3
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194A SOLDIER'S WISDOM. Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1917, Page 3
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