GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 843

GRAINS OF GOLD

VESPER HYMN. All-bounteous Builder of the earth, Who, when Thou gav'st the world its birth, Rolled back the waters with Thine hand, And so securely fixed the land. That these the seeds of all things bright Might burst in beauty soon to light— The fragrant flowers, -the golden fruit, The grassy mead, the generous root. Oh, let Thy grace descend like dew, And wash the wounds our sins renew, Till, by our tears at length made clean, No more the dreadful scars be seen. So that our hearts may keep Thy law, And from all evil thoughts withdraw" But, glad in all things pure "below, In death's approach no fear may know. This grant, 0 Father, only One; And Thou, His sole-begotten Son ; In union with the Spirit, He Who reigns with both eternally. — Aye Maria. We, are all apt ,to be, prejudiced against what we don't understand. - Watch a man driving_a_Jborrowed horse and you can tell whether he has any pity for his own. Block the windows of your heart with dirt, and it will not be strange if you deny the divine light. There is something missing in a man's religion when he has to be shown the rule before he will do right. No life is so short that- it has, no time for good and kindly deeds, nor so long it can delay their doing. . Few attributes add so much to one's personal power as the knowledge that one is absolutely genuine and sincere. No real artist ever became an artist through secondary motives. A vocation is a vocation, potent, irresistible. If your life is a perpetual lie, if you know that you are riot what you pretend to be, you cannot be strong. There is a continuous struggle with the truth going on inside you which saps your energy and warps character.