HEAVEN'S BRIGHTEST STAR.

New Zealand Tablet, 28 March 1918, Page 45

HEAVEN'S BRIGHTEST STAR.

"She wrote no books; she painted no pictures; she thrilled no audiences with her eloquence; she inaugurated no great reform. She spent her life in none of the brilliant spheres for which many of our girls sigh to-day. She simply lulled a little Babe on her breast, she pressed its face close to her motherheart, she went about her household duties there in a Nazareth kitchen ; she filled her water pitcher at the well, lighted her fires, and prepared her frugal meals, unwaited upon, unattended by any, save the angels that hovered unseen. "Yet through all ages past, and throughout all ages to come, her name is, and will ever remain, the most- blessed among women. "Artists may paint, writers may write, singers may sing, right on to the end of time, but none can ever hope to rival in unending love and reverence the wife of an humble carpenter of Galilee. They are all but as earth's tiniest candle to heaven's brightest star. Earth's greatest woman was great by virtue of her motherhood. v "A Maiden of Judea went up so close to the throne of God ; she kept the chamber of her heart so pure that the Lord of Hosts entered in and laid upon her breast the Saviour of men. "Earth has nothing greater than the loving devotion of a woman who is pure in heart. We need Marys from Nazareth yet; we need them everywhere. Let our girls aspire, by all means. Let them be ambitious, but let them not forget amid life's feverish rush to sit often at the feet of the Master, to learn His touch, to get the Madonna's secret."