THINGS THAT ABIDE.
It is a blessed fact that the. best things abide, and are beyond the power of decay or death. They are like gold, which the rust cannot touch or fire destroy. A pang sometimes strikes the heart as :t looks of: a fair flower, and remembers that its beauty will toon be over; but the beauty of these invisible things ne\-"r f.ifk-s. A man gathers precious volumes or noble pictures, and a shadow falls acr'.rs them as he remembers that, they can be his only for the brief years of his mortal life; but no such shadow falls on the spiritual elements which these things may have had some part, in quickening in his mind and heart —treasures which, by the varied discipline of life, have slowiy accumulated—treasures which are really ours bound to us by ties which death is powerlees to break.—W. Garrett Morder.
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Evening Star, Issue 14786, 30 January 1912, Page 6
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148THINGS THAT ABIDE. Evening Star, Issue 14786, 30 January 1912, Page 6
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