PURPOSE.
We live in an age when there is a fashion in philanthropy as well ns a fashion in religion. Do we atone by an interest in large questions—a common fault—for a failure towards lesser claims? We live in an age when, at all costs, men seek for personal aggrandisement, or for the intoxication of passing pleasure. We, each of us, must see to it lest our ingrained selfishness is destroying the “diligence" of the Christian. Can it be that our life is being frittered away in nothing, when men around us are in the direst need? Can it be that we occupy ourselves with ‘great interests” when unworthy suspicions, or cruel slanders, or petty unkindnesses, or thoughtless acts of neglect, are emptying the lives that lie within our arm-sweep of the power of happiness ami the influence for improvement that are entrusted to us to use. Let us see to it. Every day in every life gives social opportuniti .‘s, and therefore responsibilities at the last—Knox Little.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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168PURPOSE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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