One of the hardest weeds to uproot is selfishness. Nothing can do this but ' the expulsive power of a new affliction.' A man without some sort of religion is at beßt a poor reprobate, the football of destiny, with no tie linking him to infinity and the wondrous eternity that is begun with him ; but a woman without it is even woree — a flame without heat, a rainbow without color, a flower without perfume.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 5
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74Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 5
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