ART OF MEDITATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 18 (Supplement)

ART OF MEDITATION.

SHOULD BE RECOVERED. PLEA FOR SABBATH OBSERVANCE. “Although it is true the Fourth Commandment was laid dowm as a law of God’s ancient people, nevertheless I believe it to be just as sound and good a law for us to-day that 14.28 per cent, of our time should be a man’s own, capable of being reserved for the best purposes,” said Mr Buyers Black, Hon. Secretary of the Glasgow United Free Church Office Bearers’ Union, at its recent annual meeting, in an urgent plea for Sunday observance. “On six days of the week, in office and workshop and factory, we are rushed to and fro by the circumstances of our work or business. Six days each week are given us in which to earn our daily bread by our toil, and for recreation and newspapers and social engagements, and now at last once more those precious moments have arrived in which, as our own masters, and at last masters of our soul, we can search for that hidden wisdom which is better than rubies. “Here at last can we stand on the bridge and examine our compass, then take out our sextant and look at the heavenly spheres and study our chart. Now at last we can on an even keel and with a fortified soul discover whither our course has tended during the past week, and fix the Directional Guidance on which our lives will proceed in the days immediately in front of us. For, as Dr. Nansen says, ‘lt matters less where we are to-day than the direction in which we are proceeding.’ This heaven-sent opportunity we sha|l not miss as we value our lives, for no great course was ever travelled which did not painstakingly have its final direction mapped out, and no high endeavour or great service to mankind w r as successfully carried out by any man who failed to seize the opportunity of his quiet hours for preparation. Sunday Gains. The Sunday hours are the personal and inalienable right of every man; in these is his personality exhibited in practical form. The gains possible to be got out of Sunday are his inalienable possession, and if they are thrown away the loss is irrevocable. Give a man a bare living, enough to feed him, clothe him, and keep him warm, with a good bed and peace and contentment in his own mind, and bis Bible, and such litera- ■