'Went to Smithers'

New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 9

'Went to Smithers '

Experience is (or should- be) a Tamp to the feet. But the lamp, like that which fired Chicago, sometimes gets kicked; over, and with instructive if not often pleasant results." At ,the Presbyterian Assembly in Dunedin last week" a geniaf .Northern pastor told . (according to the ' Star ' fe'ijor !;),'_ how his experience led him to make up his mind '"'Vicver \o join a- society started -by clergy — men '. But in a"^moment of good-natured acquiescence ' he kicked his . lauij^over. ' I joined ', said he, ' the-Bible-in-schools League "started by. Bishop and it went to smithers '. 'T^'is .Weakness of all such schemes. They are architec&if IJn^the wrong* lines. Ahl when they fall and' break into ' smithers,' there is .in every ' smither ' a warning lesson tHaijrhe who, runs may"' read. Has not Young somewuere^said' that even onthe thorns of life ' delightful wisdom grows ' ?