A DAY OF JOY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3834, 21 August 1928, Page 3

A DAY OF JOY.

“When yve have had a day of mourning for the sins of Auckland let us have a day of rejoicing for the virtues of the community,” suggests “The Man About Toyvn” in the Auckland Star, yvho goes on to say: Couldn’t yve yvlioop and ]n'oeesli for the quiet, unemotional crowd, yvho, even if they do sometimes fail to leave their oyvn homes on Sundays and forget to cry “I am not as other men,” just happen along yvith material help when indigent families yvant it? People yvho are a toyver of strength in times of sickness and trouble are frequently unable to repeat the verbal formulae dear to those who may believe that yvords are a passport to postmortem happiness. M.A.T. often thinks of blasphemous men yvho, he hopes, yvill go to heaven. Harddoer miners, for instance, yvho are not careful of their yvords or their appetites, but yvho, when the blackdamp is in the mine yvith their buried mates sucking it in, give up everything to lend a helping hand and often die. You eouldp’t call firemen religious men as a body. But you might justly have a day of rejoicing to celebrate their perpetual angelic heroism. Rough bushmen yvhose language might shock the saint yvill carry a smashed mate a score of miles oyer unthinkable country. Have a bit of a joy whoop for them! Very likely yvhen the good and bad toe the final line they will bo regarded as much of a muchness. M.A.T. yvants to fall in betyveen one of the acknowledged saints and one of the naughty bad men yvho do the rescues, and to listen to what the Quartermaster has to say.