FINDING TREASURES.
CONTENTMENT. We are often warned against being contented. Wo are told that progress comes only through discontent, and that when cither a man or a nation becomes satisfied with what he is or what he has, he is no longer progressing. St. Paul, who was one of history's revolutionaries, wrote while he was a prisoner at Rome: " I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therein to bo content. I know how to be abased and I know also how to abound, in everything and in all things have 1 learned the (secret, both to bo filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want."
It is ono thing to be timid at the thought of disturbing change, quite another to be able to capitalise every situation. There is a divine contentment which uses every circumstance in life, not waiting for times and seasons, and which with tho materials at hand can turn apparent failure into success. If we would stop bemoaning what we want we might find treasures in what we have.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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