GRAINS OF GOLD. BEYOND TO-DAY.

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD. BEYOND TO-DAY.

If we cpuld see beypnd to-day, -„ As Gqd\ can sec ; -, .."— •-? If , all the clouds should roll away, '„ , > The shadows flee—^ . ' ■ O'er present griefs we would not fret, ' JRach sorrow we could soon forget,, _„> t For many years are waiting yet ~ -' ;*; * For' }?ou and me. If wo 'could soe beyond to-day, ' ' As God doth know, " Why dearest treasures pass away And itea^s must flow— . And vqiv the darkness leads to light, .Why dreary paths will soon grow bright,^ -Some day life's wiong: will be ■ made right. FaiLh tells -lis so. , . ■--„-; If we, could see ! .If we could l<now We often) say ; » But "God in love a Veil -doth throw . , > , Across, our- way;.. - . - '-..' * " r^ . ..We caniio't 1 see what -lies before, • . • ,-'"'- -. ,- And so we. cling to Him the more, ' " , fc rj H© leads us till this' life is o'er. ... ; /* J:.' Trust, and obey% . n^ _v>^->-

* h ' v-.-.-*. v< The. idle" man i Mils ffime ; lime" kills theidle: man*: ABber' the joy;' 1 whioh springs from ri-gfafcrdoing, the ;- purest and sweetest is that which is booi'of com-* palnionship with/spjuls akm to our own. „ -, v--^ "If. 1 and.^.Vbut '■ are tiny words, bait they c%£ \ changeV the 'color vof the sky ' and ", rna'ie \M&~ wofiU seem a .wilderness. . ■ ' ■ As a; graceful mosaic is marie by the tasteful in- ■ laying and cemeniing together of an almost infinite"' number of little stones, so is a saintly life made up of an. unbroken chain of small acts- of virtue.