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"A New Harmony" * whisper along. Yes, it is the iency melt away: humbly Master — the Master play- we hand Him our poverty On London Bridge there would help with a tune, sixpences and shillings, ■ erl Poor beggars are we on stricken hearts. In a mestood alone, and sad, a cen- The stiff, numbed fingers and here and there the yel- the ancient bridge of ment, fulness of joy, laughttury ago, a poor old beggar were glad to pass the old low glint of half-sovereigns despair, scraping to bring er and gladness fill our man. He scraped away thing over, and the new and sovereigns. In a few melody out of time worn, souls. The hand that was wretchedly on his old mis- hands began to play a low, minutes there was a dense sin soiled hearts; poverty pierced has taken the inerable violin in the attempt plaintive melody that made crowd of thousands of stricken, joyless, with no strument, and made it to draw a few pennies from the first nasser-bv find a P eo P ,e massing more and resources to meet life's anew. the passers-by, but no one tear start from his heart on more on the bridge, while sorrows, fierce temptations. The heart that was broken seemed to listen or stop, the wav to his eve and he yonder big policeman, in- misfortunes, and out of for us pours life and love and his poor old heart stopped and threw a penny s,ead of “Y in 9 "Move them draw sweetness and into ours. The Master has was down in his toeless into the old beggars tat- on '*’ placed himself with strength. Then a stranger come. The Lord of the boots and cold. A stranger tered hat, but stiH lingered, tears in his ®Y®s> within passes by, and «tands, human heart, the controller passed along the bridge and for the tune was going on. hearing of the wonderous listening to our pitiful of time a ?d ®? r ™’*_?*e suddenly halted beside the Then another sto&wb an- strains. Still from the decrepoor old fiddler, and listen- other penny, and helinger- P rt old *'olm, melody like an of life. With loving, tender in His ltisJesus ed while the weary, wistful ed another, S a n- ®<*o, ’ h ® «O"9 *®‘ the H® s ™ B X £ ayes searched his face for other, and yet they came “J’S® 1 ? floated over and pride and self suffic by tojmly He can make charity fa the love of and stopped. In the heap of th® |r heads, and the decre- , ' hiGod!’ Instead of the hoped coppers in the old man’s P l * old became brimful MONDAY'S MESSAGE FROM fa penny, the stranger hat were even now appear- of coins. "It is Paganinil It fITIAIAfA DADTIOT OLJIIDOLI asked fa the fiddle; he ing the white gleam of is Paganinil" passed the UrHIIH Drtl llw I wllUllvri Wilson's Road, Box 7080, CHRISTCHURCH.
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