Good Thoughts.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1256, 16 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Good Thoughts.

After the glare of the noonday sun Fades out, the glowing West Reflects warm tints on the weary world, And this sfter-light brings rest, Dearest desires and golden dreams Dazzle and glow in youth, But the backward gleam of setting hop« Lights up the soul with truth. Love is greater than chartered charities, It is truth, not opinion, which is of supreme concernment, A child that does not laugh seems unnatural, but a child that cannot laugh is a creature incredible. Salvation does not depend on the degree of faith, but on the perfection of atonement. Said Haeckel, " Where faith begins science ends," Invert the sentence and it is true, 11 Where science ends faith begins." As Christ went too and fro in the Galilean villages, He was living for us, as for the sick that He cured and the hungry that He fed. Every question asked by a child's mind is a reaching out toward the soul o£ things, and every question rightly answered and every law understood stimulates the growth of the child's mind toward the world that lies around it. No crowned head is higher than his who has been wise, patient, industrious and temperate, and having gathered wealth uses it for God's glory and the good of men. The (lings of envious poverty at such a man are the smiting of poverty's own self. I set sail for a far-off continent across tho deep. A thousand miles away, it is as real to me as the shores of my native land and the faces of my kindred. The continent of heaven should be as real to our faith, populated as it is by those whom we have known, and by Him "whom having not seen we love." God might have made sin impossible He might instantaneously wither every hand put forth to steal, and paralyze every lying or profaning tongue, but He does not choose so to govern the world, He has allowed it to be easy and possible to sin, But He has given a conscience to every one, and a law for its guidance, and He makes it possible for us to do right, and manhood is developed, and character, by right convictions and choices bravely adhered to, It seems to me that loneliness with one half the women in the world is an essential condition of existence, And doubtless the great Father has some wise purpose in this discipline of loneliness, however veiled from mortal eyes, To make the best use of this loneliness is a problem which each individual must solve for herself. After her patient watching day after day, though footsore and weary in hand and brain, there may come into her lonely hours a presence she may be slow to recognize, but which will irradiate all her surroundings,'and her soul will breathe the strength of a divine atmosphere, and sweetly rest in ineffable love and peace.