EPHEMERAL INTERESTS
A THOUSAND YEARS ARE BUT A
DAY CONTEMPLATION OF INFINITES “if a man stands, as I had the formne to stand last summer, oil the brink of the Grand Canyon, and look down im the whole record of geological time .set out as in diagram a mile high, seeing there the record of labour of infinite ages before life came, in which a thousand years are but a day, watching tlie river in its eternal task of cutting through the archaean rock, he cannot but fee' himself to be the insignilicanl creature of a moment, and bow bis head before mysteries too great, for him. What trivialities are engaging tlie attention of Die Christian churches, and dividing them one from another! Is not this a natural reflection for anyone who passes from Lhe contemplation of these infinities to consider the pettiness of our ephemeral interests’? This sort o> feeling obtains more widely lluin is thought in flic modern world.” —Sir Cyril Norwood.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9362, 17 April 1939, Page 3
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