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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 4, 26 January 1899, Page 15

Be cheerful. It is better to live in sunshine than in gloom If a cloud rests upon your heart, turn its silver liuinjr to your friends and the glow of cheer it will cast upon them will be reflected upon you, and the cloud will give w..y betore ihe bnghtiu-s and ioy us own light has begotten. J J The Rosary is the compendium of the Christian reli .ion as well as the universal prayer book. Jc can be used »>y all m,d 'always The highrst intellect finds worthy eitruse in ii*, u.i dilations and the poorest and most uneducated, comfort and peace in its spUeu words. The young, who are unable to comprehend otLer prayers • the sick, in their long, dreary hours of pain ; the o.d, m hose poor eyes are dim to the printed page— all Christians, in a word find in the Rotary a help and a blessing a stieiigth and a meai ,s of tract suited to all classes of society and to men ot every grade. Where vulgariiy flourishes— and unfortunately its limits aie not circumperib. d to any country or any class— i hero are to be roi n<t weakness of faith i.nd W moial stnridaids. At hr.-t sight this m-iy se<m too sweeping an assertion ; but it a little tnubte is tak. n u> analyse the conditions neeestary to the txisunce ci this quahiy v will be readily discerned that what is conducive to its d. \ilouuient is hostile to the development ct those higher and nobler instincts of th« soul and mind, which constitute the true Rr<amd\vo»k or -.11 Christian virtue and refinement. Jt is not too much 10 s; y that a vulgarian is essentially unequal to the requirements of s, intuai >'s well as intellectual excellence. A thoioughly LliriMian is never a vulgarian. The atmosphere imbibed by the one is iUi.l to tne other.