Havelock North.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1922, Page 402

Havelock North.

Vicar: Rev. Ganon K. E. Maclean, B.A. '■'It is more blessed to give than, to receive." ''Blessedness" m the Bible is an expression of the highest, joy. "Blessed" is the. first word of the Psalms. It is also the first word of .the Sermon oh the Mount. Perhaps there . was never a time when a true understanding of those words was !more needed than now. 'The Divine Maker and Ruler. of the Universe decreed that all life is one — .. therefore there is no division between the material and the spiritual. They depend on each other, the material is dead without the spiritual ; the spiritual is cramped and hindered through, the lack of necessary supplies from the material. The world has come to its present pass of confusion, struggling, fighting, . and farspread misery, through the materialism of the Great War, of the Profiteer, of the Capitalist, of the Socialist. How is the antagonism' between different elases, causing infinite waste of power, to be transmitted into friendship and unity so that the present dissonant forces may be' harmonised, and thereby their power be doubled t There is no other way than by the reception on both sides of the spirit of love and of wisdom,, for true love is the highest wisdom. :. To repeat :" Life is one, " and its forces are wasted if man seeks to break it into divisions. And there is. only one corporate body m our midst which has the opportunity o£< healing' those divisions. It is a body little recognised .either : by capitalists

or socialists— the Church. Therefore it is up to all the. members of the Church, and also to those spiritually minded men and women who are outside the Church to give— yes, even m these hard times— more liberally than before. Church work, Parish work, School work, Mission work — all are being hampered through lack of funds. Should such, things be m a Christian land? Let us all give our mites, our tens, our hundreds, and if we insist on haying, something m return it is waiting for us m that blessedness, spoken of above.