THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 13 August 1921, Page 2

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

A sham is worse than nothing.

Send no man hungry away. A gift bestowed upon an outcast, ay, even on a dog, is not thrown away.—The Mahabharata. GOOD THOUGHTS . Good thoughts are true wealth. They are fountains of living water. They are gems that always shine. They are impenetrable shields to protect the character. They arc goodly apparel for the mind; they are right noble companions. They are fair angels of light. They arc flowers of rich beauty and sweet fragrance. They are seeds of noble actions and noble institutions. They are moulds in which exalted cilaf” acters are formed. They make good and great men. They are a nation’s mightiest bulwarks. A good thought is a grand legacy to bequeath to the world.

The know-nothing and do-nothing and the be-nothing scheme of life can only end in outer darkness and in ineffable distress. —Joseph Parker.

THE DEATH OF AN INFANT. Alas! the little child is dead. O sorrow for the downy head That used to keep his mother’s arm

And bosom warm. And now tho chilling earth instead Must hide, for he is dead.

Mourn mothers, ye who know how sweet They were, the blossom-coloured feet That in our dusty pathways yet No print had set, So that the world will scarcely mark Their little track into the dark, Only for one the baby feet Have left earth incomplete —Margaret L. Woods.

THE LAW OF RIGHT. Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all there is in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.—■ Richard Hooker.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it, and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-in-dulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.—Ruskin.

A CHRISTIAN’S TEMPER. A Christian’s temper is compounded of firmness, complacency, peace and love, and manifests itself in acts of kindness and courtesy, genial, genuine and unpretending. It is unshaken in constancy, unwearied in benevolence, firm without roughness, and assiduous without servility.—Wilberforce.