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New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1919, Page 29

,As health is a gift of God, so also is sickness and God sends it to try and to correct us,to make us sensible to our weakness, of our dependence upon Him; to detach us from the world and what perishes with it;, to check the impetuosity and diminish the strength of our greatest enemy, the flesh; to remind us that we are here in a place of exile, and that heaven is our true Rodriguz. It is not, after all, a question of the quanity of what we do, but the quality of it. God knows of how poor stuff our dreams and deeds are woven; but if it is the best we can give, if we desire with all our hearts what is noble and pure ■ and beautiful and true—even desire to desire it—He will accept the will and purify the deed.—A. C. Benson. •