TWO KINDS OF COURAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1927, Page 4

TWO KINDS OF COURAGE.

“ Into a cupboard his cap is flung: the text-books follow, and a boy steps fro lit fairies to realities, lie becomes a man, and enters the great race. He is soon engulfed in the, feverish environment of ambition, with an eagerness for hU; taste of the ' tlesiipots ’: he wants his song, is ready to compete in the dash of wits, to steel ibis nerves so chat the fear-duets are driest when the weariness is greatest, to keep Ids brad erect when blood is mixing with sweat, to hear no cry except the syren voice ahead that electrifies the techie knees and stiffens the backbone. lie mny win a reputation for courage, may call forth the applause of the mighty, the patronage of Kings, the smiles of fair women. . . . Yes, there is grit in this, hut in the noise of success he may lose touch with the calmer voices of the Infinite, and along the same rough highway mav walk he who shows perhaps a higher courage—the man who dares To stop aside, who with squared jaw and proud defiance lives down the jeering of the mob and enters anon into the cool shaded sanctuaries of contemplation to salute his soul, in burnish the gleaming steel of honour, to hear the pleading voice of pain, to place a coin into a bony palm and to bring a light of hone into the weary eyes of him who lias fallen out of the race.”— T 1 13 Humorist.” j