"A HIGHER HAND."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 9

" A HIGHER HAND."

» TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—l read, in your leading, article this morning your criticism on Sir Joseph Ward';-* ..__ortion that "he believed that a Higher Hand had been looking after those who, while professing to act the part of impartial men, had been doing a base injustice," IX> you not believe that there are spiritual "laws? That it is because the lives of persecutors and slanderers are not guided by spiritual law such persons at some tiiiio suffer mental anguish, or worldly loss? "You never can tell what your thoughts will do In bringing you hate or love; For thoughts are things and their airy wind's Are swifter than carrier dove. They follow the law of the -universeEach thing must create its kind, And they speed o'er the track to bring you hack Whatever went out of your mind." In that grand solo from "St. Paul," "But the Lord is Mindful of His Own, He Remembers His Children," we have, the promise of His special care, and such "promises are repeated throughout the pages of the Bible. God's protection is accessible for the monarch of a mighty Empire, the Premier of a small Dominion, and for the humblest person in this, or any country etc., NEW ZEALANDER,