THE GREAT INVESTMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 8

THE GREAT INVESTMENT

QUIET CORKER

(U ritten for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler, Assistant City Missioner.)

rp HE extent to tgfiich a man believes in a given concern is to be * judged upon the basis of the amount that, he has invested therein. A man may icax eloquent over the possibilities of making rubber out of seaweed, but unless he can produce some “scrip-’ as an evidence of that belief, all his persuasiveness is in vain. When he has gone deep into the venture himself, it is time for us to consider calmly the proposition. For a person whose sole investment in religion has been threepence (more or less) in the plate every Sunday, with an occasional shilling for a ticket for some entertainment or other, to talk about the failure of the Church, or of the bankruptcy of religion, is colossal impudence to say the least. This is, however, precisely the position in which we find ourselves today. The bulk of those who have "given up’ religion, are those who have never really tried it. There is no department of human activity that calls for a greater investment of time (and in a lesser degree, money) than religion. Liketcise there is nothing that, yields such, good returns. To those who. through prayer, invest all their faith in the providence of God, there is yielded by way of return “a full measure, pressed down, and shaken together .” A man may invest every moment of his life, and every ounce of his strength in the striving after personal gain, and go dishonoured end defeated to the grave, but never yet has man invested to a similar extent in a spiritual enterprise without winning an imperishable name, and what is of far greater importance, without conferring upon society the inestimable benefit of a lofty example. NEXT WEEK: FILLETED FOOD. *=.