GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 1

GRAINS OF GOLD

LOVE FOR. GOD. Ah ! God, what can Ido for Thee To prove how dear I love Thee? The stars do sing the sweetest songs The whole night long above me. The birds soar up on pinions free In cloudless skies above me, And each sweet note they utter is: I love thee, love thee, love thee. And how, with my weak fragile notes Can I e'er hope to please Thee; Or for my deep ingratitude How can I e'er appease Thee? Ah! let my voice with theirs arise To Thy white throne above me; And let me prove it, when I say : Ah I God, how dear I love Thee ! — Sacred Heart Review.

Beware of the luxuries which the purse cannot afford. The desire to enjoy others is destroying virtue and ''filling penitentiaries. There are few things impossible in themselves: perseverance to bring them to a successful issue is wanting much more than the means. Nobility of birth consists not in the accidents of title or wealth, but in a parentage which clings closely and obediently to God's holy laws. The world holds no higher honor that cqunts in eternity. Judge others only as you would wish to be judged yourself. And unless you have both sides of a story either reserve your verdict entirely or make it conditional. Then" are you sure of doing no injustice. The world sees devout people pray often, suffer injuries, serve the sick, give to the poor, watch, moderate their hunger, restrain their passions, deprive themselves of sensual pleasures, and perform such other acts as are in themselves severe and rigorous; but the world does not see the inward cordial devotion which renders all these actions agreeable, pleasant, and easy. „ Consider the bees upon the thyme; they find there very bitter juice, yet in sucking it they turn it into honey. Oh, worldlings! it is true devout souls ' find much bitterness in these exercises of mortification, but in performing them they convert them into sweetness and delight. — St. Francis de Sales.