GRAINS OF GOLD. GOD'S LITTLE FLOWERET.

New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD. GOD'S LITTLE FLOWERET.

A Floweret grew iir a dismal valley,; ■ • Where all around" it was wild and drearWhere love came seldom, "where" raged unceasing ' The storms of sorrow _and sin and fear And the Floweret turned its face toward heaven Crying, < God of Pity, look down- onane, And take me away to Thy peaceful gardens. Across the 'bosom of Death's dark .sea ! '

God heard the cry, and, His hand outreaching Drew forth therFlower. from .the wind-swept vale It was weak and wasted, and worn with suffering, ibe poor little face of it pinched and pale. He softened the wrath of the heaving billows, 'He roll©* .back the angry', . clamorous waves,'And smoothed a path for His tiny Floweret O'er Death's dread se a _*aud the Land of Graces . ihe Flower He brought home from the lowland wild was the stainless soul of a holy child. •

' Aye Maria.' , "'

The.,golden moments in the stream of life rush past ■ us, and -we see nothing but sand; the angels come to" visit- us, and we know them only when they are. gone/ wnrS ncrg Z7 iU d ,° , ai^ th - in S &it can be done in" theworld, and no talents, no- circumstances, no opportir--nnUs will make a man without it. ■ pp v . n,* 1 !*^ 1 ! 8 J 1^ I ?,' Pleasures :tHafcmake : life sweet] as1 maW it Mtler Ca?U ' reS '™ ay -" do - more tnaii afflict-ions to ' A generous prayer ■ is. never presented in vain- the T P^ X SfiL ma 7b | r ejusedrbut the petitioner la alVavs; I believe, xewarded l>y some ■ gracious visitation^— R - L otevenson. . . . . .