GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 17 October 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

CONFIDENCE. Jesus, think me not complaining When 1 tell Thee of my care ; Often, when vexations harass, Life seems more than I can bear. Morning comes with disappointment, Noontide brings but weary pain, And the evening with its shadows, Echoes back a sad refrain ! Blame me not, then, if I hasten To Thy Shrine, where I may lay, At Thy feet, in sweet confiding, All the burden of the day. Bear with me, because none other Have I near whom I may trust — Thou art ever faithful, loving, And rely on Thee I must.

— ' Catholic News.'

Do not be deluded by&^the belief that what is popular is necessarily good.—' Union and Times.' The time we give to friendship is not lost, and it will ever count as regards heaven. Religion is to society what cement is to the building — it makes all parts compact and secure. When it is necessary to use severity, be very careful to have no malice or hatred mixed with it.— Yen. L. de Blois, 0.5.8. God does not take pleasure in our torments. On the contrary, He heals the wounds of sinners, with efficacious remedies.— St. Gregory the Great, 0.5.8. ' ♦ The truly charitable individual forgives all because he understands all. He judges not, ' lest he ..condemn himself,' and he gives riot only of his material stores, but of his very self, in the service of humanity. There is a light, jesting, flippant, unkind mode of thinking about things and persons, very common in society, exceedingly different from wit, which stifles good conversation and gives a sense of general hostility rather than sociability. Some anarchists say that ' labor is entitled to all that it produces,' but they do not add, 'by its own unaided efforts.' Certainly labor is not entitled to all that it produces in conjunction with capital. That is a 1 hea<Js-I-win-tails-you-lose ' arrangement:—* Catholic Columbian.'