SINCERITY

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 6

SINCERITY

.Sincerity is one of those priceless inborn ififts that make their possessors sought after hv all riiiht-thinking people—on condition, however,"that tliey are also endowed with judgment. For there are innumerable things, good in themselves, that may become baneful unless said or done in their proper time and place.

Some people carry naivette to the point of confusing sincerity with "candour"; but whereas the sincere one will remain dumb rather than damage a friend, the "candid" one will never lose an opportunity of acting the "enfant terrible" in order to be the teller of the truth—more especially when silence would have been golden.

Not impossibly, this quality of sincerity may be called the warp and woof of a man's nature; the canvas on which, if he is an artist, such pictures would be painted as will, in all ca-ses, reflect the purity of his mind. Even those of us who are conscious of alloys in our composition can largely eliminate the baser of them if only we have sufficient courage and keep our standards ia full