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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 January 1890, Page 2

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i I'rofpßor nninininnd, to Cadots, "rtvo nn address otip day, And lioro you iiii\f it hvii't outline ()t wlial ho tlion diil say. ''Keck first the Kingdom of your (iod And .«.•*]{ his ri«hteousness." Tli.'so words of Christ, if you obey He will you truly hiess.'' For tin's is what Ho jiromises Tliat He for you will do— " And then shall all these things (you need) Be added unto you." The text includes three subjects Which .you have learned at school. • Geography and Grammar. And Arithmetic's rule. Geography makes known to v? Where place* may be found. Now, tpll me where God's kingdom is ? This question I pass round. " In heaven : " '• iv the bible," "The Church," some boys replied: Well ; Heaven is the capital, The bible is our guicte 1 . Our guide book says the kingdom Ul v-iw] ' s within you, If to the king Oi .heaven Yoni'lieart bsats always true. Each Kingdom has its products , As known by every boy, ihe pibduc'fa <ri God's kingdom ays " Eighteousiiess, p'e'fio'e and >oy." How lovely and how precious These fruits are you may see ; And if they were more plentiful How changed this world would be ! Turjrt tff the Grftinniar lesson now. Ypri fyiA the one verb, " seek," Arid' oH: its : force, strict irfetinfincf hove I unto yoti toll ftpfeffk/ It is in mood imperative", With force of a command, And what commands reqnive. Cadets Should fully understand. The lesson which a soldier First learns, is to obey. Out ciiptrtin now commands yon " .^c/.-." Oh do not disobey. " Seek," means to search for eagerly, To use means to obtain. _ ' And if you search and aim aright, Voilt '"objpp-t you will gain. Yon find, the Arithmetic wovds Are first, and added, too Now I shall make a few remarks About them unto to, ■No bctte? things can you seek first, Or aim at, than these three. To be, and do /•//////, live in peart .\nd always joyful be. But very many act slf They' thought , first ahou"J d ojilaxt, And, bed ia ic^. God's Kingrtu? 1 When this life ; « fle«rly past. ■ Now, give religion its right place And it will lead you straight Through life, and safely carry you Within heaven's golden gate. But when religion is misplaced No c imfort will it bring ; If not pvitjirst 'twill only prove A miserable thing. There's nothing meaner than to vfiah In sin, yoiu' life to spend, Thinking that you may ffive to- God Its miserable endThen, added, is the other word. Hot there are some who say. Religion does not add at all, It only takes away--It would have you to give up all In which you take delight And go about with gloomy looks A poor, unhappy, wight. i But Christ says no such words as these, Such words are far from true ; He says, " all tilings worth having here Shall be added unto you.' 1 E. P.