GRAINS OF GOLD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD.

REPENTANCE. If I through all the years have held— my own, Andi if 1 stand, to-day with, honored name, • No human voice uplifted to defame, No hand upraised to cast at me a stone'; There still arc sins that I may see alone, And inner voices cry, * For shame, for shame ! ' While spirit fingers trace my guilt in flame, That only Love Divine can e'er atone.. And can 1 yet, 0 God, have thoughts of piide,"* And from my erring brother turn away, Accepting, mercy unto him denied, As with! the lordly Pharisee I pray ? . - - No : with the Publican let me abide, A sinner, humbled, contrite, from this day. - - . 4 Aye Maria. '

Do not believe that all greatness and heroism are in t)he .psapt.. " Lejarn, '. to 'discover, pitnces, propbe'ts, heroes, and saints auiong the people about you. Be assured^ they are " there. . ,' - - • We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered pathway, but by mingling on the thronged and common road, where all must turn out for one another', and at least see the size of one another's burdens. - The Christianity which will make ' a man ai true and loyal foillower of the principles laid down by the Man of . Ga.tlee consists' in the little lumps of leaven which he works into the mass of his daily baking, seen or unseen of others, as the case may t be, but most surely seen of that just Father Who judges by the heart more than by the hand.