THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19898, 16 March 1920, Page 9

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.—Lowed. If I have not achieved great deeds I have died in at least attempting them. —Cervantes. Beyond all question the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will indeed exist in another world.— Socrates. This is but the nursery ground, from where we are to be transplanted into the great forest of God’s eternal universe—F. W. Robertson. bestHotiyes. The gold of our best motives is so mixed with the dross of selfishness and unworthiness that we can neither take too much credit to ourselyes for any of our good deeds, nor afford to throw discredit upon any performed by our neighbour. GENTLENESS. Gentleness is a good- word to -put under the shelter of courage, and a good thing to put among the preparations for the unknown year. It is no uncommon thing, in preparing for a journey, to include articles which, in fact, arc never needed. They are brought homo again unused; and sometimes spoiled. Now, an absolute assurance may be given to anyone who requires it, that if this moral preparation and prerequisite for the journey of the year be taken, it will be needed, and it will be used not alone on rare occasions, but more or less daily all the time.—A. Raleigh. IMMORTALITY. Immortality is something far more than, and something different from, mere survival through unending time. I am sure I need not wanrniy hearers against the pitiable revival of necromancy, in which many desolate and ■bleeding hearts have sought a spurious satisfaction. If that kind o; after-life is true it will indeed be a melancholy postponement or negation of all that we hope and believe about onr blessed dead. Belief in immortality firmly held must needs transform everything for us in this world.—-Very Rev* Lean Inge.