GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

GIFTS. Labor and rest, These are the best Blessings that Heaven gives ; Arid happy is he Who makes them be His gladness while he lives. With every day To "wake and say : c Thank God for work"' and light ! ' And when at last The day is pastThank God for rest at night ! - This is to. find.Sweet , peace of mind ; To Enow life's precious, worth -;- God's gifts to take. And with" them make "A paradise of earth ! — ' S.H. Review.'

The battle with evil is no sham fight. Throw your whole energies into the fray. To him who has perfect development, charity means but one of the aspects .of universal love. "Many of usjmiss the joys that might be ours -by. . keeping our eyes fixed on those of other people";" " -' Kindness is not a commodity for barter ;< you canr I not buy it. It must be given as a free "gift !or not at . all. , * ' - '". We lose a great deal of the joy of living by 'not cheerfully accepting the small pleasures that come to us every day instead., of longing and wishing for what belongs to others. .- Gentleness is not weakness. Firmness is necessary in order to preserve authority. It . must be, however, a firmness that knows how to separate without making rents that it would be afterwards necessary to " mend. In this effeminate age, discipline be managed wrtEoiit Christian energy. g