OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1917, Page 7

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Accuracy is the prose of truth. — Helps. Love has met us on the road "When the heart was faint and sore; Love that lighten;) every load, Gilds the path that lies before, Will it ,2,0 or will it stay.' - Who can say? Ah, who can say? It is not enough to make sacrifice:; for those who love us. The real test of our goodness. L our unselfisnncs:.; towards, those whom we do not love. Imagination is man's intinite,;imal portion of the creative power allotted to him from the storehouse of the Infinite. Fretting cares, make grey lmim. Yanitv is (lie sixth insatiable .sense. '- Carlyle. The church is a works-hop, not a dormitory, and every Christian man and woman is bound to help in the common cause.— Alexander Maelaren. Whether any particular day shall hi mg us more happiness or suffering U> largely bey aid our power to determine ; whether each day shall give happine..;* ur sutl'eriug to others. tests with ourselves 1 - My soid, sit liiou a pal ieiii L,uker-on ; .ludge not the play before the [day is dour: Her ph'f hath many changes; every tlav Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play, - Francis Fur when 1 'note how nobly natures form Under the War's red ruin, I deem it true That lie Who made the earthquake and the storm,

Perchance made battles, too-. Bishop Alexander. No hook is worth anything which is not \\i i tii much ; nor is it serviceable, until it has. been read, and le read, and loved, and loved again ; ami marked, s" Uia.l you can icier to the passages you want in it. as a soldier can seize Ins need;., in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she need.; from her store. Let me but live my life from year to year With forward feet and unrduetant soul; Not liurrying 'to nor turning from tho goal, Not mourning for the things which disappear In the dim past, nor bedding back in fear From what the future veils : But with a wholeArid happy heart that pays its toll To Youth and Age, and Travels, on with cheer. —Henry Van Dyke. It is out of our defeats, as well as out of our victories', our losses as well as our gains, the unkindnesa that stings, as well as the friendship that comforts —out of all these things, tho dark threads as well as The bright, that we are to weave the web of character, the self that will pass on to the experiences of another existence. Why is it that so often I return From social converse with a spirit

worn,, A lack, a disappointment, even a sting Of shame, as for same low, unworthy thing/ — Because J have not, first of all, Let mv door open wide, back to the wall, Fr, 1 at other..' doors did knock and call Ceorge MacDonald. A little more silent sympathy, a few more tender words, a-little more restrain' on mv temper, may make all r'ne difference between happiness and half-happinessi to timso with whom 1 live. Chinamen wear five but'ons only on their coats, that they may ever keep in sight something to remind them of the live principal moral virtues, which are: Humanity, Justice, Order, Prudence, and 1 prightness. Every human soul lue; the germ oi s ime flowers, within: and they would open if they could only tind sunshine and. free air to expand in 1 always told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed the world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarrelling of a te'nth pari, of the wickedness there is. Mrs Child. The great secret of life is to know lew, in our own way, to lie receptive to the.spirit, how to read the message of its inner whisperings. 'I ho cure method of growing strong in the realisation of its nearness, is to believe it will come if we listen; to trust it i„i moments of doubt, as the lost hunter trusts, his, horse in the forest, and then renew our realisation day by clay.—Liluis Whiting. A. dear friend of mine used to say of a line old doctor in Philadelphia that his sample presence did his patient.-; more good than his medicineand was easier to take beyond all comparison. Weil, such a presence is always a noble medicine ki itself. The contagion ef a cheerful soul helps us

always to look toward' the light, seh the lido.; of lift; flowing again, and cubes all our chu».ces of getting well '—.Robert Oliver. Mothers and maiden:',, believe ute, the whole course and character of your lovers,' liver, is in your hands.; what you have them be they shall bo, it' you not only desire to have them to, but deserve to have them so; for they are but mirrors' in which you will fj'jo yourselves imaged.—Rusk in.

One of the saddest domestic features of the day is the disrepute into which housekeeping lias fallen, for that is ,a woman's find natural duty and unswens to the needs of her best nature. It is by no means necessary that she should be. a Cinderella among the ashes or a, Penelope for ever at her needle, but all women of intelligence, notwithstanding that good cooking is a litend science, and that there is a most intimate connection between food and virtue and food and heal til and food and thought.—Amelia L. Barr.

The devil in the scholastic world has assumed the form of a general education, consisting of scraps of a largo number of discontented »-übjeeL Professor A. N. Whitehead.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "'opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cro&si the churchyard at dark. Lyltou.

We gather the honey of window front thorns, not from flower:]. The people who complain moat of the biu'clqu and the wretchedness of life are the half-hearted workers. Every man has his gU'tn, and the fools go t« him that can use them. -Charles Kingsley. Dost thou Live lift*? Then do not squander time; for that i< the atuti: life is made from. Who fights with passion and oWcomes, that mnn is armed with run best virtue—passive fortitude,—Webber, The essence of iiumor ia sensibility, warm, tender fellow-feeling with all form:-' of existence.—Carlyle. The power of applying our atten* lion, steady and undissipated, to a single object in the sure mark of KUperiur geniu;.— Chesterfield. A pennyweight of love i« belter than a hundredweight of law. Try it if there is a feud in your family.—v,'. LI. SpurgeOti. Friend d)i[i close* its <H'es., rather than see the moon eclipsed: while limbec denies that it i* ever at the full. Hate He who HI ; a lie is not s/aislblo li;;w great a ta k he undertakes, for In must be forced to invent hventv mure tu inaiutain one. Pope. The natures of uome people are no rigid thilt love appeals: to bo frozen out of them- They may like and admire, but they are not capable of truly loving anybody. To weigh other minds by our own is the false c.culo by which the greater number of us miscalculate all human actions and most human eharacf* There n a day of sunny rest, For every dark ami troubled night; And grief may hide am evening guest, But iov tiJial] come with early liv.ht. - -Bryant.

Woman's inaptitude i\>r reasoning lias not prevented her from arriving at tliu ti'Utli : nor Inn; man's ability *■*» reason prt vtaited him from floundering i'j ;i.b.'i'.:dUy. Logic is one thing, and anouter. Dobt is the beginning of slavery. A creditor is worse than a master, for a master possesses only your pertson: u creditor possecMON vour dignity, and can s'liini it with a blow.- Yiotur Hugo.* ion demo:,:; is always to women the better bail of passion.—"Elthaiu House." by Mra Humphrey Ward. The mo:':t delicate and the nr>st sensible of all pleasures consists* in promoting the pleasure;; of others. — La Bruyere, What must be.shall be; and that, which is a necessity to him that struggles is little mure than a choice to him that is willing.—Seneca. To begin a reform, go not into tue places of the oTeat and rich :,ygo rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty -to the poor and humble.

We do not know what ripples of health are set in motion when we .simply smile on one another. Christ. ianity want.; nothing so much in the world a:; sunny people.—-Henry Urumniond.

Xo goad action, no good example dies. It lives for ever in our nice. A single virtuous action has elevated a whole village, a whole city, a whole

nation.-—S. Smiles. The true felicity of life is tu be'free from perturbation*, to understand our dutie.' to God and man: to enjoy fiii' present without any anxious dcprudence upon the future. The great blessings of niankind are within us and within our reach.—Seneca, A.JL). 50. The woman who endures and wear?, well in matrimony is. the one who kern.; something- to herself. — "'Michael OTlalloran," by Ucfcie Stmtton Porter. The man who believes that diserelion is the better part of valor generally does his- lighting over the telephono.