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New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 28

‘■’Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven.” To practise virtue is to subject ourselves to the principle or duty. Duty is the highest law of the soul.

If there is anywhere on your horizon a spot of light, fix your eyes upon it and turn your thoughts away from the clouds which may cover the rest of the sky. One spot of blue is worth a skyful. of grey. When we do what we can to please God and to keep His Commandments, He never fails to protect us by His grace, but when we deviate from this path, when we grow careless or remiss He may withdraw his graces and permit vis to fall. Hence the advice of the Apostle, "With fear and trembling work out your salvation."

Learn to bear the fault of men.as thou sufferest the changes of weatherwith equanimity; for impatience and anger will no more improve thy neighbors than they will prevent its being hot or cold. A ruby door stood open wide, A glimpse beyond it made me start; I wished that moment to have died : I'd glanced into Christ's Sacred Heart. —Columba O'Donnell.