THE CHEERFUL TRAVELLER
WHAT OUGHT TO BE. Alas! and alas! ‘’that ought to he,” what depths of sorrowful meaning lie in that simple phase. Hew happy would he our lives, how grain! our actions, how pure our souls, if all could he with us “as it ought to he.” *■■*** Humility is the ground-work of a.I spiritual life. Stoop! Stoop! It is a low entry to go in at Heaven’s gate. St. Bernard. •$£ * ¥■ * Possessions vanish, and opm.ons change, and passions hold a Huetuat.ng seat; lint, hv the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse or wane, Duty exists. W. Wordsworth. * * * * Of earthly goods' the best is a good wife; A had. the bitterest curse of human life. Simonides.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 1
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119THE CHEERFUL TRAVELLER Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 1
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