GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 563

GRAINS OF GOLD

LADY OF THE ROSARY. Dear Lady, oft we seek the grace To conquer in this world of strife — For sin, and wrong, and doubt, so long Have held a place within our life. That we are weak where we should be As soldiers — trusty, ' strong, and braye — And so, in confidence, to thee We come, and thy protection crave ! We need a mother in the fight, For life is lone without a friend Whose loyalty unto the right Will inspiration to us lend — And such a guide we find in thee, In every vexing care and pain; Sweet Lady of the Rosary, We never calL on thee in vain. Dear Lady, watch us day by day; Discouraged oft, and tempest-tossed, We struggle on our devious w»y, And fearful grow lest we be lost. We are thy Son's; we too are thine; O, be our light when shadows fall — Bring us unto that sphere divine, Where peace and joy have no recall ! £\ . AMADEUB, O.S.F. We are what we are in the judgment of <3od, and we are nothing more. — Father Faber. Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have 'also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning souls to God — Faber's Spiritual Conferences. No man is wholly bad, and in all lives some moments come when' tie vision presents itself of a worthier and happier life which might rbe lived.- What is needed is courage to make the start, ror, -while life lasts, it .is never too late. — Mrs. Bourke. Have we not all, amid life's petty strife Some pure ideal of a nobler life That once seemed possible ? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings and feel it near And just within our reach? It' was — and yet We lost it in . this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vain regret, But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for, us to fill it, soon or late. * No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be' what we might have been. '"" — A. Procter..