GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

HAVE MERCY! . 'Have mercy on them!' Sweet and holy thought O ! May it reach above To that Eternal Love, Who by His precious blood redemption bought.

And when, perhaps, my day of life shall cease, May others breathe my name In tender prayer, the same ' Have mercy on him; may he rest in peace!' —Rev P. J. O'Rr.iu.v

To be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them ; to despise nothing in this world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that i.s your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness .of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and spirit, in God's out-of-doors; these are little guide-posts on the footpath to peace. • '

Three men are my friends : he that loves me, . he that hates me, and he that is indifferent to me. Who loves me teaches me - tenderness ; who hates me teaches me caution ; who is indifferent to me teaches me self-reliance.

Be careful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more" than of thine own conscience. There is in everym an a severe censor of his manners; and he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent. From the least achievement to the gieatest, from the lowliest station to the most exalted, this is a common truth— that only ' he who works with a will shall do what he sets out to do. • Those who aspire to exalted virtue must begin, by practising the lesser ones. The foundation is not the building, yet the building cannot be constructed without it. — Rev. W. F. Hayes. Every heavy burden of sorrow -.. seems like a stone hung around our neck, yet they are often only like the stones used by pearl-divers, which enable them to reach their "prize and to rise enriched.