GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 10 September 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

STRENGTH OF THE SACRED HEART. ' Without Me,' said the Lord, ' ye can do naught !' Yea, Blessed Master, naught save wrong' and sin ! Here self-reliance, self-cqnceit are brought - To their true nullity. We nothing win From unassisted nature. AH our best And brightest efforts crumble 'neath God's test. ' Thou hast all need of Me— not lof thee ! Thou canst not even breathe My Name Divine If I sustain thee not!' — Redeemer, be Our sole support ! We have no strength save Thine Striving impotently 'gainst myriad foes— The world, the flesh, the fiend that round us close. But, lo! in Thee who strengtheneth our souls, We can do all things. Sorrows may assail — And waves of fierce temptatiorf^round us roll Trusting in Thy great Heart we cannot fail ; For Power, Wisdom," Goodness infinite Uphold us there, and crown us in the fight ! — tEleanor C. Donnelly.

To forget— that is; what we need. Just to forget. All the petty annoyances, all -the unkind acts, the deep wrongs, the bitter disappointments— just let them go, don't "hang on io them.' " Learn to forget. , " >1 ■. How exalted is the office of parents to prepare, to adorn,:and preserve undented living tabernacles of the Most High ! Must they then not be or earnestly strive to become holy- models "of a '* truly Christian life? They cannot teach and still less make their children esteem and love virtue, if they do- not love arid practise it themselves.

Speaking of alms-deeds, Father Tafier in his Spiritual Conferences remarks that an alms .which does not put the giver pfco inconvenience is rather- a kindness than an alms; and ceriiinly the alms which is to be a satisfactory evidence of inward repentance ought to reach the point of causing some palpabl* inconvenience or involving some solid self-denial.