WISDOM IN THE CAVE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3829, 4 November 1936, Page 6

WISDOM IN THE CAVE

CONSIDER WAITOMO’S DEVELOPMENT. “Consider the stalagmites, how they grow—an eighth of an inch in a thousand years. Consider, also; if you will, this vast and inconceivable universe whera even light in its fierce velocity is only a tardy traveller. How big do you fl-el when you get such facts as these into your mind? “How much does it seem to mattet about you and your little plans and doings, your weal and woe of to-day or o-morrow or in all your yesterdays? That it does matter is plain enough. Indeed, it matters more than you may have imagined. But

it is all part of something infinitely bigger than yourself, something that was a work countless ages before you came to birth, somathing that will be working its purpose out still, slowly, patiently, but irresistably long after you have passed hence and are no more asen. “Is it not evident that the work and meaning of your life consist in identifying yourself with that mighty purpose in finding your place in the eternal plan, in seeking humbly and reverently to have som|; touch with the Mind that is behind it all ? “In the presence of the stupendous facts of Nature there is a sudden peace to be had in realising one’s own puny insignificance. If you and I are not as big as we thought, why then our worries and troubles are not really so erushing as we imagined them.”—From “Religion in Plain Clothes,” by the Rev. W. H. Elliott.