THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 13 July 1929, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

r ' SHADOWS The shadows God seaids arc few; those we make for ourselves are many. —Anon. * # * .# A GREETING God be with you —Go with God.— Spanish Mountaineers’ Greeting. SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS v Make hay while the sun shines, but : .V don’t have a nap every time there is a c cloud.—Anon. * * , ,* * -V SWEET COURTESIES OF LIFE Hail ye/ small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it. —Sterne. • • • • A SMILE AND A CHEERY WORD ; . What big things hang on a smile and Y * cheery word, no man can ever say.— Sir W. T. Grenfell. * * # *■" i STRENGTH FOR OUR TASKS .;. ’Do .not pray “for tasks equaTTo your Dowers; pray for strength equal to lur .tasks. —Phillips Brooks. # # ’• TO FIND HAPPINESS a little deaf; and blind, id happiness you will always find. ''. ■■ . ’ . - —Anon. ;/•;> • • , . • • ii ';. GREAT LOVE V Great love is' the daughter of great fifknowledge.—Leonardo da Vinci. THE TRIUMPH OF REASON The triumph of reason ism finding a -■ - charm In the things'circumstances force > : Us to accept.—Anon. y ; i ■ • • • v " FOOLISH WORRY > , Of all tlie profitless occupations of ’.the human mind, worry stands supreme -U;as the most qseless aud foolish.—A. ;: F. Meyer. " * * * '

; - - PLUCK ?;. Nothing’ in human life is so impres'v Bive as pluck, fighting witht the scablifter the sword is gone.—Neville bot, D.D. THE SUNSHINE OF -LIFE sunshine of life is made up of little beams that ,are bright all THE TRUTH truth on"which love is built is love must involve three persons, ot two. And the third person is -Hectorßolitho.T » GOING FORWARD One goes forward without knowing and without knowing whesuccess will come.i But it is neces- ' sary to' go; forward all, the same.— Marshal Foch. *' ’ -• • • * ‘ LIBERTY WITHOUT WISDOM • What is liberty without .wisdom, and . y without virtue ? It is she greatest of Pp -all possible evils fori,it is folly, vice v ; abd madness, without tuition or re- , straint. —Burke. / ■ SUFFICIENT UNTO TO-DAY :P : 'Be not anxious about ‘to-morrow. Do to-day’s -duty, fight to-day’s temptation. arid do not distress yourself by looking forward to HUngS which you cannot see, and could ; not understand

/. if you saw them.—Chafles Kingsley. *. * •* . ESSENTIAL SERVICE He gavelt his’opinion, that who..••/ever; could inakfe two ears of corn, or .'two blades of grass; to grow upon a ' spot of land where only one grew beI fore, would deserve .better of. man- ; kind, and do more essential service to I his; country, than the whole Tace of politicians put together.-r^Swift. WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING • Happy is the man that findeth wisjv dom, and the man that getteth under:S • standing. v ’ - 5" , For the merchandise of it is better - . than the merchandise of silver, and ; the gain thereof than fine gold. . • : She is more precious'than rubies; v and all the things thou canst desire s'' are not to be compared unto her. ' • 1- ■*'. Her ways are . ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.—Proverbs. • • • * THE ANCIENT OF DAYS r and noon ’ V He sits’upon the great white throne. ‘-' And listens for the creatures’ praise; What babble we of days.and days? i- The Day-spripg He, whose days go on. ■ - He/reigns above, He reigns alone; v. .Systems .• burn out and leave His ' throne; . • Fair mists of seraphs melt and fall -■ Around Him, changeless amid< all — ■ Ancient of Days, whose days go on. : ; —Mrs E. B. Browning. : ' ■ * j' * • * • ‘ TO SEE GOOD DAYS V He that will love life, and see good r - days, let him refrain his tongue from / evil; and his lips that they speak no guile; Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. ' . ■; For the eyes of the Lord are over the t righteous, and His ears .are open unto . " their prayers; but the face of the Lord y ; is against them ‘ that do evil. — lst Epistle: of Peter. *' '* * *

7 FREEDOM OF SOUL Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; ' . Minds innocent, and quiet take - That for a hermitage; Y- If I fiaye freedom in my tove And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty—Lovelace.. A SACRED ANAGRAM • • . Jesu is in my heart, His sacred name Is deeply carved there; but th’ other week A great affliction broke the little frame, Even all to pieces, which I went to 4nd first 1 found the corner where was I, , After where E S and next where U was graved. ' When I had got these parcels, instantly “I sat me down to spoil thorn, and perceived That to my broken heart He was I ease you, And to my whole is Jesu. —George Herbert (1593-1633). I • # • *

REAL MEN The real men dare and the real men do. They dream great dreams which they make come true: They bridge .the rivers and link the plains, And gird the land with their railway trains. They make the desert break forth in bloom, And send the cataract through the flume To turn the wheels of a thousand mills, And bring the coin to a Nation’s tills. The real men work and the real men ■ plan, And, helping themselves, help thenfellow man. And the sham men yelp at their carriage wheels As the small dog barks at the big dog’s heelsi—Anon.