NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Proverbs v., 15.

Have s\ purpose in life, and put life in your purpose. —Anonymous.

Jesus shrank from the Cross, but He never shirked it. —Samuel Chadwick.

According to New Testament usage the heretic is not the person who lacks orthodoxy, but tho person who lacks love. —Newton Marshall.

Canon Strectcr is of opinion that Jesue repeated the "Lord's Prayer" several times to the disciples to enable them to memorise it.

To create a habit of cheerfulness, we must send cheerful thoughts along again and again until the trail in our minds is thoroughly blazed. Then it will be easy to bo cheerful.—K. P. Anderson.

It hae been said of Napoleon that, eloeinf* his New Testament on one occasion, he remarked: "You know thatl am an understander of men. Well, He was no man."

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. To be, and keep so, amid the injuries of men and the severities of providence, is not the gift of a happy nature alone, but ie strength and heroism.—Jules Michelet. -

To the apostle Paxil love expressed more than a relationship; It was an energy productive of abundant labours. Faith"was more than an attitude. It was an energy generative of a most enduring patience. — J. H. Jowett.

The current report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, entitled "Tell the World," has 'been favourably and sympathetically referred to and reviewed by the greater part of tlie Prcs** at Home. "The Times" devoted a leading article to it on the day it was published, and gave a full account of the society's activities on another page.

Is there anyone who has placed in yonder cemetery what was the joy and glory of life to him or her? You feel you are very much alone and,that life has little meaning to you now. Wait! He (Christ) has a great word for you. He affirms there is no death. Whisper this sublime hope to your soul.—-M. Green. St. Paul says: "Let your words be seasoned with grace." and some of us can do with a good, bit of seasoning in this direction. It is so easy to wound, and such wounds sometimes take much healing. Next time you feel your duty lies in "speaking your mind," be sure and find the "grace" to so with your words. Remember, too, the words of Christ: "Judge not that ye be not judged." —"War Cry."

An influential dnilv newspaper in an American city recently had an editorial that ie unusual for a modern paper. Here are two extracts from it:—"Hard times have brought suffering, fear, a sense of insecurity and loneliness. People no longer feel that they can defy God and the Devil because their purses are

full of gold. There is nothing earthly on which they can depend for safety. Perforce they are turning back to God for guidance and protection. . . . Down through the ages religion has been the protected harbour for storm-tossed soulo, nnd 10-day is no different from other days. People to-day, when in need, will turn hack to religion as surely as did their forefathers, if they are pressed hard enough. And many are. This turn of direction is one of the !;"j:cjits of depression."