THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16902, 29 November 1922, Page 3

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

It always pay? to make an inventory of the merits ot the people you do not like. LirK'S PURPOSE. AYe might make more ot "our lives if we tried to live the life that is ; given lu ns instead of regretting our handicaps .mcl ionging for another cnance with tUffeivui and more favourable enviriHin.vur. Xo matter how trnnibfe tin'* life, ii must have had a or ii would not have been im:. fis s.irromuliugs must have a reason or they would not hove been w dai they are. V s lone as e\ i 1 and righteousness hotli remain in the world there must .■oeds •><' urf«rv. ;:u d RVCTV SOU I UIUSt choose on which side it will fight. Sill'l 1..' OF Of KAN. One summer ove. i 1 1j pensive thought i wandered on the sea-beat shore, NVhere off, in heedl-'" infant sport i gat-jier.wj shells in days before. I lie splashing waves like music fell thspon-uve t«. ms' lancv wild; A (./ an. came o’er me like a sped. I thought I way again a child. j i stooped upon the pebbly strand, ; to cull ihe toy.* .riac round me lay, Hut a.' I rook tiicm in my hand. I threw them one by one away; O. thus l said in ev’ry stage By toys ijiii' unify i.s beguiled; Ye gather shells from youth to ago. •V7id then wo leave thorn like a child. Anon. Some one tolls us that- ii is easiei* to use our «Joi . - ■ ell than to use our troubles well, ihough both are sent us for our improvement and enrichment. There is; hot ere u- a great decision—decision from which no man can relieve us. .Should we remain content with a humanity which has no thought oeyonc! iis own self-pleasing, our whole «stai is lost. But if we find a way to the ere a five and. transforming life in wine]] we a re rooted, and if we lay noM of thai life, we need not despair Kudoll Euckcn. 1 ’ This is but the nursery ground, from where we are to he '.transplanted into the great forest of God’s eternal universe F. AY. Robertson. THE LORD OF DEATH Act love will dream and faith will trust Since Ho who knows our ueed i.> just/) That somehow somewhere meet' we must. Alas tor hint who never sees Tlie stars shine through his cypress Who. hopeless. lays his dead away ■Nor looks to see the breaking u »v Across the mournful marbles play ; vvho hath not learned in hours cf faith !l l V l ; a P t,l . to * los h *md sense unknown, That life is ever Lord oi' death. j And Love can never lose its own. Whittier. i All nature - a vast symbolism: every j tact iia- --a..: Ywl n it hill it a. j spiritual truth.- • Chapin. TUMBLE WORK. The noblest service comas from nameless hands. And the host servant does his work unj seen '! Who found tlm seeds of fire and made j them shoot j Fed bv^i] is breath, in buds and flowers j "'ho for««<l !-i roaring flames the pon<3i Ami shapor] the moulded n et.nl to hi« ! s)X'Orl ' | " I '° l«™the dragging .car its rolling I A,,d ta ! ne 'l the siee| that whirls its i etruling round 0 ■ "’"Y'-YunY ' h °'" WOrk ; ”" 1 »o‘ ; Mhy ,j^lr’s 1 murm,,r at ■ fate like n,iS AtY; ,I " aveM,v I'Sht; the pearly \A as ml a jrlnd-elotit! drifting r'er the Oliver AVcndei! Holmes. RvM Il is hy want of thought j "I* w '«l! US leant of heart. Hood. Tiir fHorriCß optimism. ; I snt among the ruins of the years. -’b bopes lay round me broken , n the dust ; I ! made no moan. I shed no fruitless tears. Yea I hei-d the wavs of men , unjust, . And God seemed far. too far to hear 1 >aid. “ AV hy should T grieve? Fife’s almost done; Our yesterdays are dreams that hurried by : To-day is wretched, ’twill he ov u* soon : To-morrow may be worse, it will not A nd tW will come a day without a morrow. A long night, and a sleep, secure and ‘ fast, That knows nor joy nor care nor toil nor sorrow.” My soul made answer. “ Xo such pence would I, Let me live op. TY only cowards die.” —Almond Trevcsso. X ATI ' RE’R I /ESSOXS. You will line! something far greater in the woods than you will find >u books. Stories and trees will leach you thai which you -will never learn from masters. St Bernard. FORESIGHT. "We may well learn that the pures- - faith in God should be accomplished | hy foresight, that in the clay of pro, purity we should not forget that a j darker day will surely come, and that they who have best used the sunny j hours will best endure. darkness and storm. Not onlv in economy a< i*> l j } hill 11, I - -g-. I <! to fill h r

things, we are u> •'lay up for a rainy day. ' -Maclaron. 1 THi: TEST OF EXPERIENCE. ; Goodness is a kind of beauty. The | moral law. like the laws of physical ; nature, rests in the long run upon ! instinctive intuitions, and Js neither more nor less ” innate” and ” ncces- . sa.ry ” than they are. . Sonic , there are who cannot feel the differ- j cnee between the “Sonata Appassionato ” a*ftd ” Oherrv Ripe”; or be- j | tween a gravestone-cutter’s cherub and the Apollo Belvedere: but- the * canons of art are; none the less acknowledged. Some there may be I who. devoid of sympathy, are. incapable of a sense of duty; but neither does ■ tlieir existence affect the foundations of morality. Such pathological deviaI lions from true manhood are merely the halt, the lame, and the blind of the world of consciousness, and the i anatomist of the mind reaves them aside, as the anatomist of the body 1 would ignore abnormal specimens.- i. IT. Huxley. Shakespeai e rote n - Burke u i ote, i for h Y audience ; and their glory is; : gills!t they have outlasted the condi- , ;ii,ns they oh u \e<l. Aet it was by j <l. erring then that they gained the ; world’s ear. Ret us. v ho- are hw- j ' than thev. beware of scorning to be- j long Jo our on. time. Sir Arthur ; (,‘uiller-Coucli.