THE EASTER SPIRIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 90, 17 April 1922, Page 8

THE EASTER SPIRIT.

A HELPING HAND.

Timee and seasons have a great effect on mqpt men's livee, and when the Relief Committee of the Hospital Board met on the eve of Good Friday they did not fail to observe the epirit of the hour. Thoee who have to do with the outcast and the waster as well as with the deserving poor, know how hard it is to deal with each individual case. Very often wiedom is found in the most unexpected places, and very often a stern lecture may fail where a kind word may work wonders. On the anniversary of the death of the 'Great Master and Teacher most men feel that His words "that he who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone," comes home with very strong force, and'men who are down and out and old and poor with not a re)» tion or friend in the world, and who find cold stern want tugging at their breast, should be treated with kindly sympathy. At the Easter season such people do not want a stern lesson read to them, they know their own shortcomings, and as one man said to the committee: "We are all human beings liable to err. I one great mistake in life, and who has not made mistakes? Nobody wants mc now, and I don't know why."

'When sorrows came, they came not single spies But in battalions."

"Cheer up, be happy, and make others around you happy, and that will be your salvation," was the advice given. "You will always be in the gloom till you try and cheer up others." After many of these men have left the room it has been remarked frequently how under different conditions men with such well shaped heads might have graced many a high station in life, bat the kink had been in a different direction and the opportunities had been lost and the result had been opposite to what it might have been. *-