GEMS FROM MANY MINES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 240, 7 December 1877, Page 9

GEMS FROM MANY MINES.

(Gathered for the Pilot.) Good is slow : it climbs. Evil is swift : it descends Why Hhould we marvel that it makes great progress in a short time ?~ Jfaa-ame SivetcJtlnr. ■ lT w waS i!! a ii of M ?/- Affrc ' " he is hard and cold " Y es, and so is marble ; but beautiful things are made of it constantly.— ldem There are hearts whose mere kindness sheds more rays than* the S.jvc of others, as the moon of Naples shines with a softer splendour than many a sun. — Idem. «i*um No two persons ever read the same book, or saw the same picture. Let our lives be as pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. — Idem. r «J^^Sffffi£S? m m porpetual lettere of recora - A wicked intention destroys the good which we do, aud a jrood uitention is not sufficient to excuse the evil which it produces.— S*. Tor hearts where wakened lore doth lark How fine, how blest a thing is work I I have often remarked that young men givet vp E to^sensual pleasures have, as it were, an incapacity of feeUng and even of under5K mS friendslu P* To IOTe *™ly» °»c must be pure.— Law . „* A F^ LBK r f p , ort does not last lon S' and the Mfc one leads is the west apology of that which one has led. — St. Jerome. The majesty of the scriptures astonishes me ; the holiness of the Gospel speaks to my heart. See the books of the philosophers, with rtl their pomp, how insignificant they are in comparison with that, wit possible that a book at the same time so sublime, and so simple can be the work of men? Is It possible that He whose history is gero related is Himself BotWnjr more than a man t-Jean Jacques