LAMPS.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 5

LAMPS.

At a church service lately the subject wits the virgins with well-filled lamps and those whose lamps went out early. If l had properly trained power of concentration, my mind would have attended to the speaker, not gone off suddenly to w-onder what proportion of us were keeping our lamps well filled, ready for an election. Our lamps of personal interest and tuiderslanding in wliat Is l*eing done, 1 mean. Of personal work. For to succeed in our election there is something needed more than t> ayer, or faith, or constant giving, nrd thut is Work, in the sense of effort. You may not appear to have the mo terial at bund to work on. You may live, as I happen to have been tumbled down, in a rood where everyone’s vote is safe. But are you keeping your lamp of en thusinsiiu of Knowledge, of the fincts of our ease, burning, ready to help guide a neutral, or |>erhaps an outsider, or the of he r-skier who is sure to turn up any day now? There are so many newly come out here from the Old (Country, and from oft her countries, who are of necessity strange to our work, and our point of view’. But they are pretty sure to vote, if they are eligible, even if they “don’t cure much which side wins.'’ (’an you interest any one of them? (’an you give him a personal interest in wliat your Union is doing? Not Just ask for a subscription, but engage his interest. Teil a man how glad you were able to help, *>ven a trifle, in the W.C.T.U. creche at the Dunedin Exhibition. after dragging a heavy baby about somewhere else where the Union hadn’t managed cne. and make him feel what a Jolly good thing the W.C.T.U. is opart from politics. Show something you are making for the Willard Home. Talk about the blessing the Odors’ Rest i.- where they have built it; share your eagerness to help build aJiother. or any other public work the Union is doing. And even more, in any private help its members are ail on the look-out to give, such a* wrelcomlng strangers. If you want to win this election, keep your lamp of intereirt filled and burning. not only to help, btrt to Interest someone else. KATHERINE MERCER.