WORK AND RELIGION.
ESSENTIAL TO HAPPINESS.
ADDRESS BY GOVERNORGENERAL.
WELLINGTON, October 10.
“There is one little factor which 1 feel bound to mention in connection with the visits of my wife and I have been
paying to the various institutions for the relief of the sick and the pbor, the aged, and the needy in all parts of New Zealand,” said the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) when speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society. “ We have noticed, we could not help noticing it, that where real happiness and contentment exist two factors are to be found, One is the
possibility of work, work with the hands instead of idleness, and the other is the power of religion, and the presence of a Bible in every room. In those that are destitute of these factors (I do not hesitate to say it) there is a certain amount of quite evident unhappiness and despair present among the inmates. Where these two elements are to be found we have found nothing but joy and hope.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 22
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