Sentence Sermons.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 10 February 1909, Page 62

Sentence Sermons.

Character is what we make of life’s conditions. It takes more than good living to make the good life. It takes a lot of piety to stand up against prosperity. lie is a foe to truth who would try to defend it with error. I'he holy life is the one that is healthy all the way through. No day is long enough to waste any of it in nursing enmity. The unanswered prayer finds its fruitage in the disciplined heart. I'he man who is going to heaven never tries to take up all the road. Do heaven's business and heavenly beauty will take care of itself. There’s little of the water of life in works on religious hydrostatics. There's a lot of difference between the tongue of tire and a fiery tongue. Xo man is as good ns he might be who •ha s not try to be better than he can be. Xo man needs our pity more than he who is indifferent to the sorrows of Others. It s always safe to deny the authority of an opportunity that thrusts itself in on a duty. . The steps downward are so many and k> small that men seldom recognise the glMdc. Ih< rc\ some moral disease present n the sight uf another's happiness ik pain. It is often worth while tn do an appar«ntk fruitless a» t for the ‘•ake of acquiring a helpful habit. When people are hungry for the living bread it’s folly feeding them lectures on agriculture. Too many of us make the mistake of thinking that the more load we gan carry the more life we will live. . >