"NOT BY BREAD ALONE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

"NOT BY BREAD ALONE."

SUNDAY AT THE SEASIDE. The Auckland Transport Board published a short time ago the following announcement; "Within a few weeks we shall introduce on Sundays a family excursion ticket for 2/0. Happy Sunday* on 6ur beaches will meaii healthy minds, and healthy minds lead directly to a good social and moral life." "Sigma," in the "Church Gazette," makes this comment on the announcement: — This advertisement is a commentary, though an unintentional one, on our Lord's words, "Man .shall not live by bread alone, but by every word . . .'" Happy days spent on the beach are certainly good for old and young, and are an incentive to social amenities; but if the healthy mind is to lead a moral life, something more is needed than the mere seeking of wholesome enjoyment. This truth is manifest to the student of the history of nations. The ancient Greeks highly valued athletics. They made bodily strength and beauty a cult, as their statutary bears witness. Like those who now spend happy days on the beach, they loved the sunlight,' the freedom of the open air. the exercise of the limbs; but. as their history reveals, they were not a moral people." St. Paul had pood reason to warn his Corinthian converts against the example of their countrymen. The real truth holds good to-day. Man's spiritual nature needs to be strengthened by the Bread of Life—and • this gift must be sought for. Those who spend all Sunday at the seaside are missing the greatest thing on earth—the blessing that comes from divine worship in spirit and in truth.