GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 5 November 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

WEARY OF SIN.. O Jesus, open wide Thy Heart, And let me rest therein ; For weary is my stricken soul Of sorrow and of sin. - • I've sought for rest and found it not In things of earthly mould — One Heart alone deserves my love, The Heart that grows not cold. 0 Jesus' Heart, meek, patient, kind, My soul to Thee I turn, Thou wilt not crush the bruised reed : The sorrowing spirit spurn. Then take me to Thy Sacred Heart And seal the entrance o'er, That from that home my wayward soul May never wander more. Yes, Jesus, take me to Thyself, I'm weary waiting here; 1 long to lean upon Thy breast, To see and feel Thee near. O Mary, by the priceless love Which Jesus' Heart bore Thee, Pray that my home in life and death His loving Heart may be. — Exchange.

Law — order is Heaven's first law, and it must be the same everywhere. Nature' obeys fixed laws, and man for his part must follow "rule and obey a ruler ; the planets revolve around the sun as well as turn on their own axes, whilst the sun draws its power, its light, its heat from God, the Creator, of all. In the same way man, whilst having great power and r independence in himself, still depends on God through the channels which He has appointed. Man in his wisdom must see the necessity of this. Take it, for example^, in-the famiiy, the workshop, or what you will, any place where' there are a number, some one must rule and all others obey ; there may be minor differencesy but in the main "there must be a .working around one great common centre all in harmony and under one established rule and order ; there must be unity and co-operation on both sides ; unity as to some one who governs, and unity as to all the rest obeying that one. We are to be docile and submissive to those placed over us; nay more, we are to respect and obey them. .-It must not be a sullen respect or an unwilling subjection, but one cheerfully given, because right and necessary, seeing in "those who rule the representatives of God Himself, Who will hold them even to 1 stricter accountability than those over whom they rule.