It does not take much to signify a changed world.

CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 20

It may be only a steadier footstep 

that tells of a hitherto drunken husband coming soberly down the street. 

It may only be a change in the voice, only a kiss. 

It was a mere olive leaf that told Noah a new world was waiting for him. 

It was only floating driftwood that told Columbus his long, dreary voyage 

was coming to an end. 

A wedding ring may not be of much value compared with other jewels, 

but its meaning is much more: 

it can tell a story of love and trust richer in its telling 

than any other of earth’s stories.” 

Lines from Sunday’s sermon
by Colonel Edward H. Joy, Congregational Church, Rondebosch.