A New Year Thought

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

A New Year Thought

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

The Lord's my Shepherd. I'll not want, He make, me down to lie In pasture* green; He leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul He doth restore again; and me to walk doth t Within the paths of righteousness, even for His own name sa . Yea. though I walk in death's dark vale yet will 1 fear none, ill; For Thou art with me: and Thy rod and staff me comfort s . My table Thou hast furnished in presence of my f °° B : My head Thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows. Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely-follow me: And in God's house for evermore my

DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:— This i. our fir,, page end my Sr.l letter .( the <New Year. .r>d «.«£ one of you my loving greetings an a _ Circles during the coming year. As r d P iSTh" W» r .rT]S« blue end .he .uu.hine .. golden .. tk V h.v. I write this, the skies are j inhabitants and pioneers are nodding wise been for weeks mean when we talk of the oldheads and »aying. Ah! y beautiM 6vmmer j remem ber since time summers 1 the war, when all our family circles were unbroken those long ago days bet Dicnics in which all our boy and and Christmas brought appy / the smart pa ddle steamer Wakagirl friends joined, <=xc of her kind ever to sai l upon the Waitemata. tere, one of the fines a a fi e ld to Kawau or Mahurangi Heads, but the trip S ° m f mCß ; d %L Cn so the bays of Waiheke, Cowes, Man of Wa" r , Awarof—-the." were the favourite picnicking places twenty years or more ago

11 .»/->rincr nn eauallv happy memories—there is so much 1 hope K you will enter the New Year ° f a u , r Jifenith and joyous determination to make the most of every „ith health and strength a:*cUo>y and . trf tQ a „ iwift-passing y. read the announcement rc holiday letters! Cinda of places, «° b « f would l ike to thank all those boys and girls and In c l°. L V w ' Christmas and New Year greetings with cards and rr i your kindly remembrance brought me much happiness, gifts. The though y maj| contaßt plizes and cards of greeting reached you L tfme for the Santa Claus delivery, particularly some of our girl and boy members in the King Country, a returned soldier's children, to whom we instructed V Santa to take a first-class parcel! /S A With the best of good wishes to you all, Jf f