Compensations

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 9

Compensations

Man seldom closes a door but God opens another. The defection of some of the Teutonic nations of northern Europe in the sixteenth century found its compensation in the conquests of the cross in the New World ibbyomd Uihe Atlantic. And the plunder and proscription of the religious Orders in France have given a new impetus to "the faith in missionary lands. 'When', says George Elitot,- ' a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in '.