GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 8 April 1909, Page 523

GRAINS OF GOLD

EASTERTIDE. Gather lilies, fair and fragrant, At the blessed Eastertide; Let their incense rise to heaven, Offered to the Crucified ! For we know that Christ has risen

From the grave wherein Ho lay; Let our hearts be all-exulting On this holy Easter Day ! See! — the earth has waked from slumber!

Birds are singing everywhere ; New life leaps from hill and hollow ; One great, universal prayer Rises to the sky above us, — Prayer of praise to One in Three : Christ has conquered death and risen, — Conquered death for you and mp ! — Aye Maria.

Men say that when they know they will do ; Our Lord says that when we do we shall know. — Babcock. A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition is your only true umbrella in this vale of tears. — T. B. Aldrich. Take the Sunday with you through the -week, And sweeten with it all the other days. • — Longfellow. Christianity alone, of all human religions, possesses the power of keeping abreast with the advancing civilisation of the world. — James Freeman Clarke. The blindest, the most purely instinctive, effort of mere pluck has a lifting power and deserves our thankful admiration. Every degree and every form of courage tends to raise the whole tone of life within the range of its influence in proportion to the amount and the quality of the endurance exercised. As there is no true devotion to Christ's sacred Humanity which is not mindful of His Divinity, so there is no adequate love of the Son, which disjoins Him from His Mother, and lays her aside as a mere instrument, - whom God chose as He might choose an inanimate thing, without regard to its sanctity or moral fitness. — Faber. "When. God's call comes we should stop, look., and listen. Stop that we may be more fully informed of the duty of the hour ; look that we may see more fully the path in which He would have us go : listen that we may hear the kindly persuasion of His love. Stop, for it is God Who calls; look, for the way can be travel'od but on^e; listen, for He may never call again. "When all the world — the Christian world, at least — was Catholic, Lent was, of course, universally observed. As a result, there was a superabundance of meat on the market by the time the six weeks of abstinence were completed, and that article of food was correspondingly cheap. In oldtime Catholic England the phrase ' at Easter price ~ was equivalent to ' at a great discount,' very cheap.'