GEMS OF THOUGHT
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, ’man is a busy, mischievous, wetched thing. —Bacon. Either make the tree good and his. fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. —Matthew 12:33. We must first be made good, before we can do good; we must first be made just, before our works can please God —for when we are justified by faith in Christ, then come good works—Latimer. All that worketh good is some manifestation of God asserting and developing good.—Mary Baker Eddy. He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. —Emerson. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practised but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act. —Shaftesbury.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 7
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150GEMS OF THOUGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 7
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