Two More Mottoes

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 38, 21 September 1905, Page 1

Two More Mottoes

It is, we think, Livingstone who put on record the following mottoes of some tribes of blacks in the heart of the Dark Continent . ' Put off till to-morrow what you do not care about doing to-day ' , and ' Constant labor kills a man, but strengthens a woman.' The first) of these two mottoes, and the first part of the .second, might be blazoned, underneath Aithur Roberts's song-title, upon the banner of the ' Bible '-in-schools 'Referendum' League. The re\ erend black-coats in whose interest the organisation is bein^ worked, put off till to-inonow the unwelcome duty of the religious instruction of youth which that chronic ' tired feeling ' disinclines them to do to-day. And (like the unrepentant Lopn de Vega) ' when -the morrow comes, they answer still, To-monow .' They \olley words like a battery of machine-guns to show what other people should do for the souls of the little budding men and maids at school. But the re\ erend politicians seem satisfied that any attempt, to do their own proper work themselves would be as deadly to their constitutions as a hosinoj of Parrs giecn would be io ijhc potato-Might in Auckland or Taranaki.