IN HARMONY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4562, 20 April 1942, Page 6

IN HARMONY

TO BE TRULY AGREEABLE “To be. truly agreeable, what is that? What is it to 'agree’ to be amiable? The words themselves tell. Agreement is harmony, not simply with the persons of any . particular chance company, but with Something that includes all groups, and is bigger than them all. Men, like musical notes, often adjoin each other as C and C sharp, but they do not agree. *They touch and pass. Agreement is relation with the common chord. Not a matter of saying ditto for the sake of peace or raising a smile. Agreeableness has its roots in the depths of our being. It draws its nourishment from the Eternal (‘in tune with the Infinite’), and it finds its human response in other lives, which also are related to the common chord. Any agreeableness less than this is artificial, is known to be such, and valued as such, and in the hour of sorrow is scorned as such. St. Paul gave us in a word that has often been perverted, ‘I am all' things to all men that I might gain’—them. There is the really agreeable man, he who can enter into “I other men’s lives to share with them the best he has. If the entire community did that!”—F.C.S. in the “Birmingham Post.”