WISHES AND WILL-POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 3

WISHES AND WILL-POWER

I FRAILTY OF HUMAN NATURE I ' ‘ How often does jhe frailty of our ; human nature frustrate the realisation |of good desires, says the Rev. L B. 1 j Ashby, writing in the "Daily Tele- : graph." Even such a stalwart as St J Pau! was painfully conscious if. arrnj deeply hv. the unwelcome! * ■ fact "The good that I would Ido notj t , but the evil which I would not, tmd t| ; do Oh. wretched man that I urn!"; t ■Where this vigorous servant of Christj j was not ashamed to confess his fmlurcj, to carry out hi good intentions, we i j need not be ashamed either to ack-!* , tmwledgc the fatal weakness of our 1 ’ human wills and their need of being H reinforced. if w? are to ’.io tile .Ringsj< I which we would Our human Wills are j j very Rite the mainsjirini' <>( a clock ; They run down and k.w power until!; tinally the clock m• alt igcthcr V.'hat| , happens when we wind up cdot’k"; We put into the .firing < nergj derived! from ourselves A simple puiablcj We need the hand of the living God i>. .wind I.?, our •.•ills afresh for .. and’‘ to give us tile power and the energy I to copy out on c-- a! d. We can--not wind them up ourselves, an _ v mor- , that. ;> clock cat) wind itself up, S««,: We must look til G‘,d to iir> It hit ,i. ( T);at is jii't avother wav of ..vmg that . we really do need t elign.'ii if We ; . c to make anything va.ttii wh.de of cur ‘