Bishop Strossmayer's Aphorisms.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 51

Bishop Strossmayer's Aphorisms.

Faith is ever the best guardian of freedom. Worldly goods have no other value than their use in the attainment of moral ends or national ideals. Fame is not to be bought with small change in the market-place,

The noblest aim of a government is the awakening of a people s conscience.

Whatever lives in a nation's soul must sooner or later receive expression in public deeds.

Alone constant, beautiful, and advantageous to the holiest aims of humanity, is that which is upheld, not by force, but by justice. Politics knows neither pity nor affection. Wisdom, moderation, and conciliation are all virtues and are the fruits of political ripeness and adaptability. Nothing is more detrimental to national development than self-deception and self-laudation.

As is the marriage contract and the life of married couples, such will be the nation.

Banns First Published

rfafj h f U f ?! of P ublishin S the banns of marriage rifpH An on th f + P rimitive Church. Tertullian, who died A.D. 240, states that warning of intended marriages was given among the early Christians. It appears that the publication of banns was habiSnJr 7^? long before there was an 7 g en eral law on the subject, since Gregory IV. (1198-1216) speaks p Ltn £f bCing - given Oui in church > according to custom The practice was introduced into France about cese of 'pads *" H76 WaS enforced in the dioThe earliest enactment on the subject jn England was an order made in the Synod of Westminster in 1200 to the effect that no marriage should be celebrated till Si m een P ublislled in lh <> church on three several Sundays or feast days. This was made obligax^r^vt Sir by the fourth Lateran cc ° un - Good Thoughts from Various Sources. The Almighty is too just to interweave with our nature any passion which it is not in the power of our reason to subdue. He that falls into sin is a man ; he that grieves at it may be a saint ; he that boasts of it is a devil The p r i ma i duties shino a]oft Hke t Jm rmrinvxjs 1 and weM aie «**«* is noi n «iigi°on allly iS nOt moralUy " Self-righteousness inn^iiV 611 / 0^ men to ?ive S° od advice when they are too old to. set bad example. Every crime destroys more Rdens than our own.' Duty, like death, enters every abode and delivers it<* message. Conscience, like reason and judgment fsunfnobll^tLug'hts! I^^ al ° ne that arG «*°mpanied w "h If luxury is sweet, its consequence is cruel The only perfect people are those we don't know They can conquer who believe they can ■doin^welL 8 We " and talJdng Wdl are nothin S without

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