GRAINS OF GOLD HIS ANGELS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 February 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

HIS ANGELS.

An angel smiled this happy jnorw : That hour a little child was horn ; With silken hair and starry eyes, A little wanderer from the skies ; A little spirit free from guile, And 0 she had that angel's smile ! God sends His angels now and then To help the sinful hearts of men (A child, perhaps, in mortal guise With winsome face and starry eyes). God give us grace, whate'er bettde, To know the angel at our sideTo say : ' Wherever i may be, My Angel Guardian walks wi^h hip.'

— ' Aye Maria.'

It is God's will that you should be ambitious. It is well that you should plan and hope anjfl asipire. The most pitiable man in all the world is he in whom the fires of aspiration have ceased to burn, who , Is content to be less than he might become.— Rev. John W. Uavanagh, C.S.C. It is better to pay the* price of humility— the price of taking- the first step towaids a reconciliation — than to be at enmity one with another. Let the innocent take the first step, for it is easier for such to go to the enemy than for the enemy to go to the other. Besides, it is Uhnst's method.

It is impossible for one who never goes wrong, nor makes a mistake, nor commits a blunder, to know just how to be sorry for an erring one. We must stumble ' ourselves before we can really judge of the hardships o.f ; . a rough road and the frailly cf weary feei. . True character is first tender, then hopeful, and afterwards reformatory.

Pity the weak. You can't help it,' for they are pitiable. Help them as much as you can without overstraining your muscle. But save your handicap of genuine sympathy, and your word of encouragement, for him who fights his way through" the night with forehead high and colors flying, asking no mercy where mercy- is not, protesting not where protest is futile, but simply • fighting and helpings