WORDS OF WISDOM.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1315, 13 May 1897, Page 12

WORDS OF WISDOM.

He who believes nothing, achieves nothing. The sores sin leaves never heal unless Christ be our physician. When Faith ceases to rule our lives, Licence too often takes up the reins. To have brought a child into the wold is to have given Sureties to Eternity. Of some things we can say that they are "dead and done with.” Is it not so with sin. The world is full of people ready to do good, but most of them are in no hurry to make a start. , To know of God only that He is great is but cold comfort for the needs of poor Humanity. In its very adaptability to our human needs, Christianity bears the stamp of its divine origin. Creation lies before us like a glorious rainbow; but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us. —Carlyle. The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Emerson. We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes. —Louisa M. Alcott. It is a hard matter to discern rightly whether a good or an evil spirit doth provoke thee to covet this or that. —Thomas & Kempis. It is no great matter to live lovingly with good-natured and meek persons ; but he that can do so with the frovrard and Jrecise, he only hath true charity, eremy Taylor. If your eye is on the eternal, your intellect will grow and your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.—-Emerson.