GRAINS OF GOLD. AYE MARIA !

New Zealand Tablet, 4 October 1906, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD. AYE MARIA !

Hail, Holy Mother, full of grace I The light that shines from out thy face Tells of a love divine. C.ive me a spark of that same fire, Give me the grace to lift me higher To share thy trust sublime. The look the Child gives back to thee, Oh, may He give it once to me, And may He too be mine !

' Aye Maria.'

Every revelation of a secret is the fault of him who first told it. ' If thou wouldst have a brother frank to thee, be frank to him. Where secrecy or mystery begins, -vice or roguery is not far off. Knowledge of the world consists in respecting its futilities. We know that beautiful acts make a beautiful life. • What you preach or say does not affect your character much ; but the instant you do a thing it be- J comes a part of your very self and colors your life. _' There is such a thing as a man having-* in this world spiritual possessions as well as material possessions, and being thus possessed he can look> through the shadow and see the substance, be can reach out and touch vanished hands, see the faces of those whom he has loved ami lost, can come into close fellowship with God "and being pure in heart can see" God.