The Sabbath

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 18 (Supplement)

The Sabbath

AGEING EYES Dim are scenes which once were lighted By youth’s glory, rose and gold. But our eyes become long-sighted, So folks say, as we grow old. Objects fade from very nearness, But our hearts need not repine If we see, with growing clearness, To the far horizon line. Sorrows, pains, and grave disorders We can bear them if our eyes See at length beyond life’s borders, Glimpse the land where Heaven lies! —Greta Briggs in the Christian World. SOME KESWICK THOUGHTS There is let-go faith; lay-hold faith; and hold-fast faith. Christianity is the life of the Son of God in my soul. First fact, and then faith, and last feeling. It is the closed heart that misses the blessing. Divine adjustment precedes divine enduement. The place of blessing is down low at the feet of Christ. —Rev. Evan Hopkins. INSPIRATION He gazed, in attentive meekness, When the scholar, with classic wit, Described some apparent weakness In the structure of Holy Writ. He muttered: “In bygone years I limped on that dismal way; But all my doubts and fears Are cast aside today. “Theories of Inspiration Are empty forms to me; I find in the Revelation Some inner Authority. “If, perchance, I do not meet Him, In the words of the Sacred Scroll, They teach me how to greet Him In the chambers of my soul.” —Margam Jones in the British Weekly GLORY Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.—Cowper. By skilful conduct and artificial means, a person may make a sort of name for himself, but if the inner jewel be wanting, all is vanity, and will not last.—Goethe. Like madness is the glory of this life.—Shakespeare. As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.—Addison. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Without that the conqueror is naught but the slave.—Thompson. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.—Goldsmith. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.— Jesus.

The Elizabeth Church in Lemberg (Lwow), capital of Galicia.