Items of interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 653, 9 December 1908, Page 7

Items of interest.

An ounce of contentment is worth a i pound-of sadness to serve God with.— I Fuller. '' " .. ■'' . ,/ I Friendship 1 Mysterious cement of the • soul! ■' '' .'. s Sweet'ner of life! and Solder of so- , ciety! r —Robert Blair. The tongue was intended for a Divine organ, but the devil often plays upon it.—Jeremy Taylor. Begin and end each day prayer; and so: your life will lie within the golden gateways of God's love and ( care..' .■..' '.. . ■.-.. ", , .Sir. Philip Sidney showed that he knew: the world when he said .'that "doing good was the .only certain happy act of a man's life," Never load yourselves with the burden of to-morrow. The burden of to-, •day is all the Lord expects you tu bear. When to-morrow comes it will care for itself.. God, who created the light, will provide ,for the children who wa.lk in its beams, and God, who made the .twilight and /the darkness, is Father/also of the children of twilight and of darkness. ' . ' , -' -, His,are the mountains, and the valleys '' his, And the resplendent rivers. , His to enjoy - ■ • With a propriety that none can feel. But who, with filial confidence in- '■"'-' spired, Can lift, to heaven an unpresumptu- . ous eye, ■ * ' And smiling say—"My Father made them: a 11.".. ■■;■ " / ; ■;■ —Cowper. Literary acrobats are popular nowadays, but standing on one's head is not generally considered to be good for the brain. Books that are daring trapeze acts, excite wonder and :adiniration—of a sort; .literary clowns sometimes made a hit; but most of us are glad when the efforts of both are over.—HarOldv Murray,