GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 14 March 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

A LENTEN MOTTO. Willing the spirit but weak the flesh— Wo d as the Gospel old, yet new ; Each of us clothes it with import fresh Oft as we strive for the good and true. Stumbling still where we fain would run, Fallen from heights whereon late we stood — How shall the summit at last be won ? Scourge' we the flesh for the spirit's good. Hostile forever are Virtue and .Ease — Nature and Grace must be foes for aye ; Futile our efforts the two to please : • Soul or senses will carry the day. Combat incessant that none can shirjc, How may We win in all likelihood ? Cometh the night when- no man ' can work— . Scourge we the flesh for .the spirit's good. — ' Aye Maria.'

Most of the things we learn from experience come unider the head of compulsory education. There are some people who turn gr^ay, "but "do" riotj, grow hoaxy > whoso faces are * furrowed . 'but ' not"' wrinkled ; whose "hearts are sore wounded .in .many ' places, tout are hot dead. There is a youth- that.'fctids defiance to old age, and there is a kindness which; laugh's at the world's usage. These are they who hav£. returned 'good for §vil. • Happiness is a temperament. Some of the. poor make themselves unhappy because they are not rich. Some of the rich make themselves- un-Happy because they are rich. The man who has work to do makes himself unhappy by imagining that he has too much work. The man who nas no work to do makes hini'self unhappy because he has no work. The secret of happiness is to accept our lot in life and make the best of it.