THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 October 1928, Page 14

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THE TOP OF THE TREE Why shouldn't you get to the top of the tree? It is still there. —L. G. Moberly. # # * H CALMNESS IN ONE’S SOUL Calm Soul of all things ! Make it mine To l'eel amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine Man did'not make, and cannot mar! —Matthew Arnold. » * * « FALSE TO DUTY He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will llnd the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.—Henry Ward Beecher. •#* *'* HOW TO FIND AN IDEAL An ideal may seem unattainable, but when it is distinctly acknowledged as tlic object of aspiration it will be found close at hand.—Bishop Wcstcott. ! * + * * THE MUSIC OF GOODWILL Kindness is the music of goodwill to men, and on this harp the smallest lingers in the. world may play Heaven’s sweetest melodies upon earth.—Anon. * * * . 1#

AN ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION When you can see the “why” of things they arc' no longer hard, for tlic world is perfectly balanced and to every question there is an answer. —M. Reed. * * * * THOUGHTS AND ACTION Cleanse thy thoughts and they will clean'se thine actions.—Confucius. * * "■-# # BETWEEN OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM No one finds anything either so easy or'ho difficult as, in opposite moods, he has expected, to find it. —George MacDbnald. - .'.it'*. « » • * TRIUMPH OVER FEAR Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear—fear of poverty, of suffering, of calamity," of illness, of loneliness, and of death. —Amici". • * * * BEAUTY FOLLOWS SUFFERING All 'the best tod most beautiful flowers'of character-and thought seem to spring up ‘in the track of suffering.— A. C. Benson. * * * knowledge' . Knowledge rejuvenates the soul and lightens the burden of qlc). ago.—Leonardo da Vinci.' 0 * * * * HAPPINESS MEANS OVERCOMING FEAR Happy is ho who .has been able to learn the causes of things, and has cast beneath his feet all fears.—Virgil. V* * * * WHEN SERIOUSNESS BEGINS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. —Brooks. * * * * IDLENESS AND POVERTY Idleness is not a quick traveller, that is why Poverty seon catches) her up.— Anon. * «• * * WHAT IS ETERNAL? Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.' —F. Robertson. * * * * IMPARTING JOY When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven. —Shelley. * * * * NATIONS WITH A FUTURE The only nations with a future, the only. historic nations, are those that esteem and value their institutions. — Tolstoy. * * * * THE ART OF CHOOSING FRIENDS Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends. —Socrates.

the endurance of character Character is the only thing wo make in this world and take with us into the next.—Anon. * * * * THE CHEERFUL PILGRIM The world is only a place of pilgrimage, but after all there is a good deal of cheer on the journey if it is made with a contented heart.—Henry van Dyke. * # * * TO AVOID MISTAKES Enquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often bo mistaken.— William Penn. , , * * * * LONELINESS Loneliness is not a matter of space c r distances, of the many or of the few, but a matter of one’s adjustment towards one’s shrroundings.- -Robert Stead. * * * * ONE OF LIFE’S COMPENSATIONS The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.-—Browning. a & :* * THEY WHO CONQUER FATE They . . who await no gift from chance have conquered fate.—Matthew Arnold. S I*. j* tt LIFE, LOVE, AND DEATH Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only the horizon, and the horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.—Anon. * * * ,* WHEN FATE STEPS IN Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.—Bacon. * * * * ' TRUST .IN GOD Whatever troubles come on you of mind, body, or estate; from within or from without; from chance or from intent; from friends or foes—whatever your trouble be, though you be lonely, 0, children of a Heavenly Father, be not afraid- —Newman. * * * * HOW THE WORLD CAN BE SAVED I am old-fashioned enough to believe that ultimately the world can only be saved by getting back, or forward, to the Christian ideal and law of life, with a spiritual authority admitted humbly and worshipfully in the hearts of men and women.—Sir Philip Gibbs. *■ * * * CHANGE To-day is not yesterday, we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they arc always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Changes indeed arc painful, yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.—Carlyle. * * * * TIME Time is— Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, To short for those who rejoice, But for those who love, ' T:ime"is—Eternity. —From a on r. Sundial. WHISKY WARNING When ordering Bell’s Whisky—the brand which has been on the market for 3 years—be certain that you are supplied with SCOTCH WHISKY from ARTHUR BELL & SONS, LTD., Perth, Scotland, and take no other. Arthur Bell and Sons, Ltd.—the BOTTLE WITH THE YELLOW LABEL for AGE AND PURITY.