The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, JANUARY 18, 1924. A NEW YEAR’S WISH.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 343, 18 January 1924, Page 7

The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, JANUARY 18, 1924. A NEW YEAR’S WISH.

Gipsy Smith tells of a testimony meeting, at which many were expressing thanks for being saved from drink, gambling, or worldly pleasure. I resent ly a sweet, refined lady got up and said. “Christ gave me a bigger salvation than any of you. He has saved me from an easy armchair.” Truly it takes much to save us from the easy chair habit. Our New Year wish to all our readers, and to our White Ribboners, is that they may be saved from the easy chair. We have had a long campaign, and the end is not yet. We have had defeats and victories. but the final victory depends upon one and all getting out of the easy chair and into the firing line. Every worker needs a good supply of sticktoitiveness. Ever insurgent let me be, Make me more daring than devout; Erom sleek contentment keep me free, And fill me with a buoyant doubt. Open my ears to music; let Me thrill with spring's first flutes and drums. Hut never let me dare forget The bitter ballad of the slums. Unions will lie reassembling for the year’s work. Keep in mind our three P’s World Peace, World Purity, and World Prohibition and work steadily and unceasingly for their accomplishment. Our Editor thanks all who have sent good wishes and kindly appreciative words, and passes on to all a IttNiutiful New Year's wish sent b> on>‘ of our oldest members — "A bright New Year and a sunny track Along an upward way, And a song of praise on looking back. When the year has passed away, \nd golden sheaves, not small, not few. This is my New Year’s wish for you.’