THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 17 January 1931, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

m- TRY TO UNDERSTAND Heaven has no bar to those who did ° their best to understand.—W. L. Fennor. # * * * _ TO BE STRONG I “ To believe is to be strong. —F. W. I Robertson. u * • • • ■ l .j EVERYDAY MIRACLES j‘ c Miracles lie all round us; only they are miraculous.—Sir Oliver Lodge. ! ,L * * • • ]j HEAR, THEN JUDGE 0 Gently to hear, kindly to judge. —Shakespeare. • • • • COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS The wise man counts his blessings before they arc lost.—Anon. * * * . FAITHFULNESS He who is faithful over a few things is lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey, or teach a ragged class, so you are faithful. The faithfulness is ail.— George Macdonald. • • • • THE CHALLENGE A swallow clears my sleeve with knowing skill. As if to dare a hostile human will. And teach me what a lumpish thing T am, Who risk no danger and achieve no thrill.—Lyon Sharman. T ' * ~ . * BE CHEERY Be as cheerful as you can in welldoing; there is a double grace in good actions when they are done cheerfully and brightly.—St. Francis de Sales. • * % ft OUT OF DEFEAT Every failure is a step advanced To him who will consider how it chanced.—George Meredith. * * # * THE BELIEVER AND THE UNBELIEVER The pious man and the atheist always talk of religion; the one of what he loves, and the other of what he fears.—Montesquieu, **' # • MOST PRECIOUS,OF REWARDS Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection is the final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.—Mark Twain. * * # * LAUGHTER •Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone, For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. • * » • STANDING ALONE We do not know anything about our

own resources until wo have taught ourselves to stand alone.—Angela Morgan. * * * * THE SECRET OF LIFE The secret of life is to accept life. . . Question it as much as you like after, but first accept it.—Katherine Mansfield. * * # ft ACHIEVING GREATNESS Generally speaking, the great achieve t their greatness by industry rather than by mere brilliancy.—Bruce Barton. * * * * THE SPOTLESS FUTURE No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless.— Anon. * * # * MAKE A SUCCESS OF THIS WORLD If we cannot make a success of this world, we don’t deserve a better.— Anon. * * * * WORK AND POWER God gives us work with one hand and power with the other, which means giving us happiness with Doth hands. —L. H. M. Soulsby. * *' , * # SEE THE RIGHT AND DO IT To see what is right and not to do It is want of courage.—Confucius. * * # * THE LIMITS OF AGE As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.—J. Anthony . Fronde. * * * * THE DOER Bethink thee of something thou oughtest to do, and go and do it, if

it be but the sweeping of a room, or the preparation of a meal, or a visit to a friend.—George MacDonald. • # * # THE DOING The Christian life is not knowing and hearing, but doing.—F. W. Robertson. # # * # LABOUR AND THOUGHT It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy. —John Ruskin. * # * * * REASON Act well thy part, but let Reason govern thee.—Marcus Aurelius. » « * » THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM To know that you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. —Confucius. * # # # SUPERSTITION NOT THE WORST There ai‘e worse things than superstition. To see gods everywhere is better than to see God nowhere.—Dr. A. MacKenzie. * • * * FACING OUR DIFFICULTIES God does not open the gates for us, nor roll away the stones, until we have come up to them.—J. R. Miller. * * * * PRAYER AND WHAT IT BRINGS The arrow of prayer can never be! shot aright without bringing down. some blessings. If it brings not that which we seek, it shall bring us that which we need. —M. C. Pearce. # # * * FRIENDSHIP Friendship is to be purchased only bv friendship. A man nia'y have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own.—Thomas Wilson. • • • • MAN’S RIGHTS Surely of all “rights of man,” this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.—Carlyle. * • * • SLOW-MOVING TIME

It Were good that men in their innovations would follow the example of Time itself, which indeed innovates 1 greatly, but quietly, but by degrees scarce to be perceived.—Bacon. * * * * “A SORT OF INGRATITUDE” An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.* 1 —Dr. Johnson. 1 . ;