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New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 23

How small we feel when we have suffered for a long time and have met with many difficulties and trials. Suffering is a purgatory mercifully given to us in this life. Fenelon.. '"- •- - : ' : ' ut -' ■■""'.-.,.. ...Reverence is the chief power, and joy of life, says Ruskin; ; reverence for what is pure and bright in your own youth for what is true and tried in the age of others; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, : and marvellous in the powers that' cannot die. .'- I ~; An even temper belongs to the category : '[ of wnat the gentle i Stife Francis »de Sales calls "the little virtues"f/| like every; other flower of the soul, it can be cultivated; without it, someone-has said, "no one can be a Christian gentleman - for more than three hours r at . a" time.'*