GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 July 1909, Page 1003

GRAINS OF GOLD

MY PRAYER. When pain and sorrow press me, And my soul is sunk in fear, When cares of life oppress me, And there seems no comfort here; Then with the two disciples, I shall pray my Saviour dear, ' Do not leave me, gentle Jesus, For the dreary night is near.' When my way leads through temptation, And I journey sick at heart; When life seems all vexation, And 'twere sweet with it to part, Then, with the two disciples, I shall pray, my Saviour dear, 'Do not leave me, gentle Jesus, For the dreary night is near.' When the angel brings a message That is meant for me alone, And I face that lonely passage, That will lead to realms unknown; Then, with the two disciples, I shall pray, my Saviour dear, fDo not leave me, gentle Jesus, For the dreary night is near.'

The brevity of time as compared with eternity was strikingly illustrated by the Rev. Father Meagher, S.J., who in the course of a mission sermon preached recently in a church in Los Angeles said : ' What is time for you and me? All space before and after us has no meaning for us. The little space beginning with our birth and ending with death is all we have. Two figures will express time for all of us. It may be 35; it may be 60, perhaps 70, but two figures represent time or life for all of us. What is eternity? That which has no end Will figures express it? No, for we can always add another number to what we have written. So no number of figures will express eternity. And on that little span that we call life depends eternity. What is the meaning of life? That is a lesson that we never must forget. It must be before us, guiding us. We must so conduct ourselves that we will win eternity.'