GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

• THE LONtf ROAD. The road windsi on, and up the lonely hill I take my way ; thick shadows falling fast Obscure the light of day. Dear Lord, at last, Weary and footsore, sick with Pleasure's fill, 1 turn to Thee, kind Father ! .Curb my will. My passions, yea, have stained the soul's white Past Though beggar, I, O prithee, do not cast Me from Thy heart •! I have a child's love still. The Home, by angels built, I long to see. The kindly, years Jiave" softened my cold heart ; And some day I shall reach the heavenly place,' When, through Death's /do o r,..glad, slow and silently, I'll pass from.out Life's noisy, troubled mart. Father, I long to see Thee face to face ! " . — ' Aye Maria..' Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means 'of returning to God.— St. "- Bernard. They who are right can afford to: pardon whether victorious or defeated.— Bishop Spalding. Have great, great trust and "great gratitude. _When " we see all that we- ;have to be -grateful for it will be too late..— Father Dignam, S.J. . • - The road to home happiness is said to lie, over small step,ping-s tones. So small sometimes are the causes of our unhappiness that .we wonder the consequences can le so great. One "great palliative "is the determination by every member' of the family, not ' to. dwell on the circumstances, whatever thtey, may bje, which are alike sad to all. If it be poverty- let it be cheerfully and silen,tly borne ; it it be the "ill-tetaper of grandpa try to make a joke of it. If it be something infinitely worse and also hopeless accept it" bravely ; do not talk- of ; it. Try in the family circle to ignore it. Accept every little enlivening circumstance. Let in all -the sun and air. Work on cheerily and hopefully, -knowing ■ that there is the ray of sunshine somewhere that has only to be looked for* to be found.