Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 452, 15 December 1904, Page 7

Items of Interest.

FRIENDSHIP is a well; however deep * it- never overflows. Love is a fountain; however narrow,. it must ever overflow.—Jvan Panin. The world : is too much with us; late and soon, ' . ' Getting and spending, we lay waste our" powers;, , j ~: . . Little we see in Nature that is ours. —Wordsworth. The great tide of human knowledge is ever advancing. We must go with it or we shall have stagnant doctrines in a sea of dead theology.—Canon Farrar, Love took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed in music out.of sight, —Tennyson. It is certain that no estimate is more in danger of erroneous than those by which a man computed the force of his own genius.—Johnson. Sour discontent, that quarrels with our fate, May give fresh smart, but not the old abate; The uneasy passions, disingenius The ill reveals, but hides the benefit. —Sir R. Blacl;mord. 1 Just do a thing, and don't talk about it. Thi3 is the great secret of success in all enterprises. Talk means discussion, disoussion means irritation, irritation mean; opposition, and opposition means hindrance always, whether you are right or wrong. - —SStfali Gi&nV i

It is not what people eat, but what they digest that makes tbem strong. It is not what they gain, but what they save, that makes them rich, It is not what they read, but what they remember, that makes them learned. It Js not what they profess, but what they practise, that makes them righteoui. '•*< • Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple,' who have faith in God and Nature, Believe ye that in all ages Every is human, -:■■■■ That in even savage bosoms' • . * : ' >-' f'herei.are longingsfyoarnings, strivings,...: - For the good they comprehend not, *•> ■ That the feeble hands and helpless ' Groping blindly, in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness,: And are lifte&up and strengthened. —Longfellow. . The humble current of little kindnesses, whioh, though not a creeping streamlet, yet incessantly flows, although it glides in secrecy within the -domestic walls and along the walks of private life, and makes neither appearance nor noise in the world, proves in the end a more copious tributo in the store of human comfort and felicity, than any sudden or transient flood af detached bounty, however ample, that may rush into it with a mighty sound. - Fawcett. We are put into this world to make procress towards a better ono. Progress, therefore, is the first law of our being. Tho world is a school; he that learns nothing is a dull scholar, had better hover have been born. The age that learns nothing is a dunce. Every generation should be wiser, botter, stronger than its predecessor. Religion is no exception to this universal law of humanity. We are to grow both in the grace and in tho knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The man is to grow from year to year ; the Church is to grow from age to age. Every era should have some new theology, as "every vine should have some now wood. As the body keeps healthy only by growth, only by casting away the old tissues and getting new ones, so the soul keeps healthy only by forgetting those things that are behind alid pressing forward to those things that are before. He that is not growing is dead, and should be buried. Progress and conservatism are not opposites; the only way to conserve what lives is" to progress towards a better life. All true progress is conservatism; all true conservatism is progressive. Our fathers laid foundations—we are to build on them.— 8,6 V. Theodore L. Cuyler. '