GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 5 December 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

THY COMING. There was no harvest-time, 6 Queen ! - In all the Advent years : Men gathered not in gladness What their hearts had sown in tears.

But with thy coming, Mother dear, The earth ran oil and wineMen knew-4,he Bread of Angels, And the grape of the Living Vine ! — ' Aye Maria.'

-Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression. We must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. Love life, but ldve it not for vulgar pleasure^ for miserable ambitions. Love it for what in it is important, grand, divine.— S. Pellico. He who wishes to b(e wise while keeping aloof .from "the true wisdom, and sayed without the Saviour, is not wise, tout a fool.— St. Philip Neri. Following Mary, thou strayest not ; thiniking of her, thou errest - not ; asking of her, ..thou needest never des- - pair ;. clinging to her, thou wilt never fall.— St. Bernard. The children will read something. A Catholic parent will see that they have Catholic" books and papers ; if he doesn't, he should confess the fact among"^his sins of omission. Father Faber says that many lasting friendships have been built upon a kind word, opportunely spoken. It is a gift to be able to recognise a good trait or a good tendency in others and to strengthen it by a little meed' of commendation. All reforming does not consist in repressing ill or reproving vice. Much effective well-doing comes from the habit of encouraging good causes and lending a hand to excellent things already going on.