GRAINS OF GOLD.

New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD.

PRAYER.. I prayed ; God answered me at once, And richly was I blessed ; Exactly as my heart -had hoped He granted my request. I prayed ; the answer long deferred Brought riot the storing I sought ; . He answered better than my plea, -- Ay, better than my thought, I prayed ; He gave no answer then, Nor yet doth answer give ; But oalnuand confident I wait "' His boon superlative.

If _,you wish others to spare you, do you spare others. No man is, good because he is nofe a transgressor, but he alone who strives and loves and helps. Blessed is he who expects little, but works as if he expected much. Sufficient unto the aay is the good thereof. The soul only submits to the hardness of fate toy - virtue of its discovery of a sublime compensation— the loving kindness of the" Almighty. - • _ Accepting each hour as God's gift, living each day in the sweetness of His blessing, we may realise that this is heaven begun. The Cross sweetens much bitterness, soothes many an aching heart, enno-bfles many a commonplace action and-igives priceless value to the tears of affliction. An hour given to contemplated thought is not an hour devoted to idleness. Quiet 'is most conducive .to growth, whether we~consider the problem, of- nature or~ that of-. -the soul. l " c - We perhaps never detect how muoh of our social demeanor is made up of artificial airs,* until we see a person who is at once ibeautiful and simple ; without - the beauty, we are ~apt .to call the simplicity awkwardness. . -*- - The human soul is God's . highest .creation and no- . blest, organ, -and His clearest revelation must be through -that aifld -through the' noblest part of the humajti soul. Every- form of;, genius to conscience, to the heart, to faithy- sympathy,- and love. : .