REPOROA CHURCH SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 7

REPOROA CHURCH SERVICE.

A church service, conducted by Mr. H. R. Butcher, the father of the district and a lay reader of the Church of England; ■was held last Sunday in; the Reporoa Public Hall. Taking as his text Micah, 7.3, "With both hands earnestly," the preacher claimed that work alone is noble: • a' V: life" of ease .ignoble. He showed.; that all human progress, all acquired conveniences, all advantages in' things * intellectual as well as material, had been acquired by persevering effort, quoting Catiyje's words, "The hands of forgotten men have made a world for us.'VPro ceeding, he showed his hearers that he who clears the land oi®drains a swamp is doing his share for human progress • as well as the ■ great discoverers in science-or. the builders of temples and palaces.; He urged earrfestness /in effort, and condemned the idea current among so many that "one man's opinion was as good as another's," and the, fatalistic saying, ''I suppose it will all come .right in the end." It is not in such a spirit that humanity can bo severed.: The strength v arid' glory of a nation is in the superior quality of its citizens. .■ /."' <■ . \ '