LEARNING TO LIVE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6239, 7 June 1946, Page 6

LEARNING TO LIVE

EFFORT AND DISCIPLINE NECESSARY

“Life cannot be a casual affair again; the old theory that life is getting better and better every day just because it is life, has gone,” said the Rev. J. D. Grocott. BA., at the winter school of the Nelson Methodist Synodal District at Stoke, on Sunday. “A man learns,” he continued, “when living and thinking in a period of chaos and tragedy, that one lesson is the absolute necessity for each man tq accept some task as his very own. He learns, that if he wishes to have a better world he must do something about it himself, even if he does it alone. Goodness does not grow automatically. You cannot make a better world by just leaving things alone. There is no chance of building a better society without self-commitment. Every learning- process requires discipline and effort. To win scholarship the student must live laborious days. It is equally true that to learn to live there mlust be effort and discipline. We must accept readily some selfappointed God-given tasks.”