GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1909, Page 1723

GRAINS OF GOLD

NAME AND ADDRESS. My mother taught my childish lips to say Whose child I was, and where my dwelling-place, To tell, she said, to the first friendly face;* It ever I should chance to go astray And once, when I had wandered far away, - And could no more o my truant steps retrace Back to my longing mother's warm embrace" One led me by that clue at close of day. We must be children once again, saith He, Whose Word is life's high law; so, when I roam t i°t £ , narrow way and stand in need, rSr* h S lo, s- for ever > J wi U Plead: -.! My mother'srtaame is Mary, and my home Is where she lives, in Heaven, and looks for me.'

Rev. John Pitzpatrick, 0.M.1.

<rln™ okeerful. It is better to live in sunshine than in gloom If a cloud should darken your heart, turn its silver lining, to your friends, and cast the glow of ch'eS upon them, and the cloud will give way before the brifcE? ness and joy its own light has begotten. g .. , Sometimes a common scene in nature will open itself tnnwn WWW W a and pregnancy of meaning unknown before It is but an instance of God's infinite mind communicating some lesson to His creatures All who are made open to their reception receive them. \ ?,,.- The worl< j sees devout people pray often, suffer insee the inward cordial devotion which renders all thesl actions agreeably pleasant, and easy. Consider , the blet upon the thyme; they find there very bitter -juice , vet in sucking it they turn it into honey. Oh, worldlmelf It is true devout souls find much bitterness in these SSroises of mortification, but in .performing them they convlrt S mto sweetness and delight.— St. Francis de Sales! There are many things which look « important, many 1 " 11^ which have a great deal to say Very speciously n behalf of their importance. , But faith, ' like death ulences many voices and answers many questions very liuetly and makes many important things unimportlnt vithout taking the trouble to degrade thfm. Tn troth ihe ™ w nothing important but God. All the questions sth^fr^P^wi?^ 10 , 11 Jlß,^J 18 ,^ reyolve rou nd Him s there a God? What sort of God is He? What does He sS?P*°Wfc * Wlt Vl S? What does He cx P ect us to do for lim? What will happen to us if we refuse or neglect to io it? In the answer to these questions, or rather "the" mswer to this one question, lies all practical religion ;he entire significance of life and its sole importance