Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIII, Number 37, 11 Ianuali 1939 — Ordained to Live [ARTICLE]

Ordained to Live

By P. O. Davis Director, Alabama Extension t Service, in the Taliassee Ti ibune. Prom the beginning we liave ta'ught that institutions, agencies, and doctrinēs wliieli menl peimanency āre allowed to live; alid tbat, oh the othēr hand, tliose thlngs whieh aVe Seless or unworthy of life must die and disappea-r.

As we onrselves live and tbmli and stady and observe we see tliat is true. Bec'ause it is true, it, to<i is allowed to endure and to guide us in our pi oeeilui e. Tt is a light that guides - a trut.li that sustains. With it we ean lab'el the things up6n whieh we ean depeucl and recogniZe \he doctrines ūpon whieh we eān rely. To ine an example of tlvis is the press—daily, weekly, monthly. Siuce it is a humau instituiiou \ve adnUt

its imperfections but we recognīze! its qualities whieh endure. It has| a plaee in the hearts aud lives of| human beings wliieli nothing else! ean take. !

And as I medltate upoii the piess my thoughts always luili to t!ie weekly ne\vspapers 'wliū'li I fu i st knew as a farni £ r boy aud for wlik'li ! vrote iny flrst tliat in print. From ihai i;ood day to tliU I have held them iii the highest esteem for \vhat they mean'io thoir' readers. r have not done this becaute of my i"nendship for ihem nor tlieir friendship for me but because the weekly ' press, is an institution >vhich was; born to iire and grow and serve First iti ihe heans of mi!Uons of people who live cloi?e to nature aud to thiags both spiritual and amterial, the \veekly press is an esseutial lnstitiitiou that has boen ordaitied to live: