Children's Corner

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 7

Children's Corner

were graceful. When, a* length, be stood in the open place, and made a speech to the citizens, they listened to his charming voice so quietly that yon might have heard a needle <)rop; and sometimes, when he said a sad thing, they bent their heads and wept. Demoethenes had made himself an orator. lie had improved himself; his aim was selfimprovement. And not only had hs made himself better. He was better able to plwise the people, aud teach them, tmd make them think of their city, their country, and their duty. 1 have told you o£ the live aims of money, health, pleasure, fame, and power. Ls not this sixth aim a nobler one? Demosthenes makes one think of the Climber on the Alps, who felt he must ascend to the snowy p«ak, and as near a3 he conld to the silver stars.