GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

"—Rev. Matthew J. Russell, S. J.

SIGN OF THE CROSS. With the holy cross myself I sign, From forehead to breast the upright line, From shoulder to shoulder the cross's arms, My soul and body to save from harms. - While on my forehead my hand I lay , ' In the Name of the Father/ is all I say ; In the Name, for all Three are One, And the next I say, « And of the Son.' While on my breast my hand I place. Lastly the rest of the cross I trace, . From shoulder to shoulder, saying then, ' And of the Holy Ghost. Amen.' Let me think It over again, With' the Name of the Father I sign my brain, Seat and Symbol of mind and thought ; For I believe what God has taught. With the Name of the Son my heart I sign, Seat and symbol of love divine.-. 0 heart of Jesus, I give Thee mine. While on my shoulders the cross I trace, ' 1 name the Holy Ghost, '. whose grace Will make the heavy burden light, - . _ As bravely- 1 bear it in God's sight. . - Thus shall t>e work of each day be done, In the Name of the Father and of the Son, And Holy Ghost, God, Three in One.

Be true to your word, your work, and your friend. me artist -uses a stone and -it is a statue the mason uses' a- stone, and it is a doorstep ■> The cross, therefore, is always ready and every- - where waits , for thee. Thou . canst not escape it wheresoever thou runnest ; fop wheresoever thou goes't thou earnest thyself ' with thee, and shalt ever find iihyself.—Thomas a-Kempis. To the intellectually well-furnished man there is, in- , deed, 'no such thing as :, solitude. His inner world is thronged with life. He gets away from the crowd - that he may understand it. This explains partly the : love of solitude of the great sainfs. -