GRAINS OF GOLD. PRAYER-GIRDED.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD. PRAYER-GIRDED.

I hold him great whose' soul is strong, ' Who forges onward in the fray ; <- . Disheartened .not,, though care and wrong Make dark his way. And he is great whose heart is filled With love for all the passing throng, Whose words have many a- sorrow stilled, . And left a song. But all unknown of heedless men, And all unheralded to-day, ' '. The greatest man of. all our ken Who goes prayer-girded on his way. —' Aye Maria.' "

Eloquence is the sound that issues from an 'impassioned soul. We have not' .two lives— one for seeking truth, the other for practising it. . - ' --- . ■ . The time you give to friendship is not lost, and it will even count as regards ,Heaven. '• • Religion is to society what cement-I_is\to the building : "it makes all parts compact and secured -• It is in difficult limes "that great nations, like great men, develop" all .the energy of their characters. The folly which we might have ourselves committed "is the one which we . are least ready' to pardon in^a-ii-other. . *- "—' There are mysteries enough around us to make us realize the narrowness of our vision, the insufficiency of our knowledge. -He who knows only how to enjoy, and not to en- ■ Jure, is ill-fitted to go down the ..stream 'of life through such a world as this.^ ■ . Nature is -the most thrifty thing in the world ; she never wastes anything ; she undergoes change, but there's no annihilation—the essence remains— matter is eternal.