PEACE AND GOODWILL.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 73, 29 December 1911, Page 2

PEACE AND GOODWILL.

i CHRISTMAS has come and gone, bringing with il and leaving about it that breath of better things that calls a halt in the turmoil and struggle of everyday life. The softening message of the old message, "Peace and goodwill," tends to that introspection which begets that greatest of all the virtues, Charity. May the true spirit of nobler and higher ideals which possess each one of us at this joyous Yule tide season, abide and fill our hearts with love for our neighbour. Thai all men should think alike is impossible. Such would defeat Nature's great scheme of dcvclop-

ment where man is concerned, but in differences of opinion, whether it be on industrial, political, religion?, or international questions, let our hearts be big enough and minds sufficiently broad to differ with courtesy, fair judgement, and charity. When we realise the many advantages we possess which other nations and localities lack, our summer sun, our sunny winter sky, the lack of poverty and distress, all unknown here, which prevails to such extent in other lands, can we not then truthfully say our lot has been cast in pleasant places, and that our troubles are small indeed compared to. our blessings, and as we stand on the threshold of the closing year of 1911 fully realising that the coming year contains for each of us a portion of sorrow as well as of joy, and knowing that the silver lining will loom out all the brighter after the breaking of the storm cloud, let us stand erect and face the future with a fixed determination of doing our best to do unto others as we would be done by, and with our hearts filled with thankfulness and charity let us grip to our souls the Christian message and hold it tightly as our guidestar through the coming year.