Electricity is all about 11s, but w© do not recognise its power until it is gathered up and turned tN some special purpose. It is a waiting\servant, a reserve force. The inner life also holds such reserves, and the things of which we say “impossible" in hours of ease become the practical in hours of stress, j It may easily happen that a irtan is J fearfully threshed by misfortunes both 1 jmblic and private. Vet heedless fate. ' when it strikes the rich sheaves, presses I the straw only and the corn feels nothing of it but leaps merrily to and fro on the threshing-floor careless as to whether it i.s destined for flourmill or for the corn field -Goethe.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 7
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