TAKING CHANCES.
Don't tempt Providence. How often we hear this trite saying. Just what it means, is not easy to see. After all, Providence is so superlative, if we accept the orthodox explanation, that it almost seems an impertinence to sav that there can be any question of tempting. It 'is just one of those cases where we use words looselv. There are so muny folk who trot about using phrases that are leaping from the tongues of the gullible. Without a single thought they apply them to almost every atom of the dav's work. There are risks to take in this life* of ours! Risks which just make it all worth living. And just as we start off from the mark, there comes along some old Victorian fogey with that futile remark about tempting Providence. Thinking about it at all, it is not unreasonable to believe that Providence would 6ay that that remark is but an old and out-of-date piece of apprehension. Get on with your job! Go to it, and take a chancc. Providence is not the providence of yesterday. There's a great risk, in fact a nasty risk, in crossing a one-way street. Goodness knows, to do that is tempting Providence with a vengeance. And the job you have in mind is a hundred times leas risky. Go to it! And don't bother about tempting Providence. But be carefuL
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 26, 1 February 1928, Page 6
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