THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Till? ATM The ('lid wo iiim :i(. must 1 ii* known before the why.—Jean Paul. : # * * # PATIENCE AND M I.SIfOimjNE Patience cannot, remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate misfortune.'—Sterne. • * * • ONLY TO THE GATE Your crosses do but. convoy you to Heaven’s gate; they cannot go in thereat.—Rutherford. * * * * WHY AND WHY NOT You look at the . things that are—and say, Why? I look at the Ihings that never were—and say, Why not?— Bernard Shaw. * # * A SOUND POLICY It is sound policy to magnify points of agreement, rather than those of difference. —Anon. # * • * THE TASK OF HUMANITY Progress may not ho a law of life, hut it is the task of humanity.—Bishop of Manchester. * * * * THE GIFTS OP GOD We take God's gifts most completely when we realise that He sends them to us for the benefit of other men who stand beyond us, needing them. —Phillips Brooks. • • • • EVERYWHERE There's nothing in the world, I know, That can escape from love, For every depth it goes below, And every height above. —Thoreau. * * • « THE UNCHARITABLE Some men there lie whose charitable deeds arc as rare as an eclipse, or a blazing star. These men deserve to be pardoned for their pious deeds—they are so seldom guilty of them.—Thomas Fuller. # # * * THE SITTERS AND TALKERS In most big undertakings one or two men do the work, while the rest sit near and talk till the ripe decorations begin to fall.—Rudyard Kipling. • * * • EDUCATION’S AIM The aim of education should he to teach us how to think than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.—Beattie. * # * # ALL’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven, f The hill-side’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing, ’ The snail’s on the thorn; God’s- in His Heaven: All’s right with the world. —Browning. * * * * ALL ARE BROTHERS It is an old saying that charity begins at home; but this is no reason that it should not go abroad. A man should live with the world as a citizen of the world. He may have a preference for the -particular quarter or square, or. even alley, in which he lives; but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole.— Cumberland. • * • * DEPENDENCY The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child’s head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of* the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have a right to ask it of their fellow-mortals. No one, who holds the power of granting it, can refuse it without guilt.—Sir Walter Scott. * * * * * RELIGIOUS LIBERTY *

I will have you know that my intention and firm will is to maintain religious liberty. The empire of the law ends where the unbounded empire of conscience begins. The law can do nothing against that liberty. Such are my principles and those of the nation; and if anyone of my family, succeeding to me, were to forget the oath I take, and, misled by a false conscience, were to violate it, I allow you. to give him the name of a Nero.—Napoleon Buonaparte. * * * * THE SPRINGTIME OF LIFE A little way, more soft and sweet Than fields aflower with Mav. • * 1

A lmbc’s feet venturing, scarce complete A little way. Eyes full o’ dawning day book up for mother's eyes to meet, Too blit lie for song to say. Glad as (lie golden spring to greet Its first live leaflet’s play, Love, laughing, leads the little feet, A little way.—Swinburne; * # * • INDEPENDENCE Ob, be wise, and let industry walk with (lice in the morning, and attend Glee until thou readiest the evening hour for rest. Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny when all thy expenses are onunierated and paid. Then slinlt Ginn reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler. Giv helmet and crown. Then shall Giv soul walk upright, nor sloop to the silken wretch because lie bath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the band which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. —Franklin. • • • • DEATH THE LEVELLER When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsakes me: when T meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when 1 see kings lying beside those who deposed them,, when t behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.—Addison. .

THE CHILTTWE LIVE FOR It would be unwise in us to call that man wretched, who, whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes, and on whom he doats. Poverty may grind him to the dust; obscurity may cast its darkest mantle over him; the song of the gay may he far from his own dwelling; his face may he unknown to his neighbours, and his voice may he unheeded by those among whom lie dwells—even pain may rack his joints, and sleep may ilee from his pillow; yet has he a gem with which he would not part for wealth defying computation—for fame filling a world’s car, for the luxury of the highest wealth, or for the sweetest sleep that ever sat upon a mortal’s eye.—Coleridge.