Tárogató, 1941-1942 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1941-1 -01 / 4. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 This Kind World A New Zealand war nurse has been keeping a diary, and here is a page from it. The boys are really marvellous. They never complain and are always cheerful. Always they say they don’t mind how hard they work or what they have to put up with. We have had a few Germans to look after and they were good patients, too. The most touching thing I have seen concerned one of them. A batch of Tommies were getting ready for embarkation to England. All our boys had a parcel from home or a little present from someone—a razor, shaving soap, chocolate — at least something. There was one German, and he, of course, had no present, so one of our boys quietly slipped out and bought him something. “Explorer”. Finding by Losing When we have tilled the ground of our life for the love of humanity and made a harvest for men; when, if we have been cast out of Eden in our personal life, we have made a new Eden for others; why then, we shall ask no longer, “Of what use is the battle, what is the worth of living?” We shall be far too happy to ask that question. No power can cast us out of the Paradise of giving ourselves away. That happiness has no satiety; its love brings no isolation with it. It doubles and redoubles its incessant joy; for the work which makes it brings into our soul all the life of mankind, all the beauty of Nature, and all the character of God. Losing our self, we find everything. —Stopford Brooke. My Money What shall I do with my money? This question is one of the important ones which youth is called upon to answer. What others may do with their money is not so much my business, but what I shall do with my own is exceedingly important to me. One of the grave evils from which today suffers greatly is waste, waste which breeds poverty, waste which even spells degeneracy. There is a foolish idea that happiness may come from spending money, and this all too often means that when the money is gone we realize, to our dismay, that we have had neither happines nor benefit. We are paying all too dear for our whistle. Most of us have, and will have, none too much money for our needs; is it not advisable that we should consider the spending of it carefully, with due regard to both the present and the future. The Church of God has a claim upon our incomes which is not always acknowledged; yet it is based upon the soundest of reasoning. The Church has been, and will be, one of the greatest factors in the well-being of society. We owe it more than we can ever pay. Are we paying our debt to it? “Onward.” St. Paul’s Cathedral In War Time In a recent broadcast talk to the Empire and the U.S.A. the Dean of St. Paul’s spoke on the conditions under which the life of the Cathedral was being carried on. “I have been asked,” he said, “to tell you something about St. Paul’s Cathedral in war. I am sure that many people all over the world are interested in the subject. I have good reason to be sure because ever since St. Paul’s was in danger, and more particularly since it has been actually hit, we have had kind messages from every continent. No: I am wrong. We have had messages from every continent except one—from Asia, Africa, America and Australia, but not from Europe. That surely is rather a notable exception. We have good friends in many European countries. Many of their distinguished churchmen have been honoured guests in St. Paul’s. Not one has sent us a message of encouragement in our trials. I suppose they are afraid to express their feelings lest the Germans should be offended. But the letters which I have received from so many across the ocean made me think that St. Paul’s is a kind of symbol in the imagination of multitudes — a symbol OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
