OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1917, Page 2

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

It is my belief that you get the best out of thiii country not by bullying it, but by trusting it, and 1 do believe, whether 1 am right or wrong, that part of that general goodwill is due to the fact that we had in Parliament a Government which was not going cn the old party lines, but which at least tried to be representative of the nation as a whole in the struggle in which it was engaged.--Mr. Bonar Law. The British troops, previously despised by William, are now giving libs generals: a sample of their strength, before which, in the long run, the Bodies will have to turn tail. The superior quality of the British Army has g -t the better of all the Boehe counter-attacks, and the magnificent success, of the little Army, now grown big, lias already made the invader feel the first effect of a military force upon whose intervention lie luui not reckoned.—M. Clemenceau. There is but one lest for the minimum pension—namely, that in each case ix should he sufficient to keep the member of the family concerned in a state of physical efficiency. Those who took part in recruiting have a special responsibility in the matter, and the counity aitid The House,will not bo satisfied unless, full justice is done to the men who have fortgiit and protect, ed us in ibis war. —Mr, Ellis Griffith, M.P. Speaking as a trade union leader, I can conceive’nothing more disastrous to iht.- best interests of the country thaiM that the House of Commons should give any encouragement to moli-law or rioting. If you are going t i allow moh-law to rule, or if you are going to encourage direct incitement to riot, there will he no safeguard for law or order, or even for property, in this country.—Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. Take your place where duty lies. Nor. Hie meanest task despise; If you have the power to light. Charge the foeman with your might: If mitittod for the trench, Bear up bravely, try the bench : Service in your country’s need Lies not in the word, but deed : Efforts great, endeavors small, Empire needs them one and all; That liie land beloved may live All at your disposal give! God made man for something more noble and blessed than ever to follow his own lofty nature. God made the animals to follow their natures, each after his kind, and to do each what it liked without sin. But He made man to do more than this, to do more than as he likes—namely, to do what he ought. God made man to love Him, to obey Him, to copy Him. by doing God’s will, by leading God’s life lovingly, joyfully, and of his own free will, as a son follows the father whose will he delights to do.—Charles Kingsley. At the round earth's imagin’d comers, , blow . Your trumpets, Angells, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of smiles, ami to your scattered* bodies go, All whom the flood did, and firy shall o’erthrow, AU whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slaine, and you. whose eyes Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourne a space, For if above all these, mv sins abound, Tis late to aske abundance of Thy grace, When we are there; here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent: for that’s as good As if Thou had’st seal’d rny pardon with Thv blood.—John Donne.