HEART WORDS OF LIFE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 40, 21 October 1925, Page 61

HEART WORDS OF LIFE.

For the great majority,of. mankind it can be held that life resolves itself quite simply and obviously around three, cardinal phases: love, home, and children heart-words of life. This is why Christ when on earth gave so many touching Gospel stories of home and love and children. Do you remember Galilee’s hills, where Our Lord gave back the life of a boy to his mother?,. Can you not see again the little home *at Bethany, where Mary and Martha welcomed back the dead Lazarus? "Will you recall the dutiful Son at the marriage at Cana who could not refuse a gentle mother’s pleading ? ... u At Oapharnaum he healed the lowly servant of the centurion, and it is always a joy to think of the groups of Jewish mothers fringing their little children to be blessed at His sacred knee. All through Our Lord’s public life are there instances of interest in the heart-words of life, and it is only by

imitating His example that we may hope to enter heaven. Though we cannot perform miracles, we can give of our best; charity towards our neighbor. Interest in homes less fortunate than our own gives us a right to God’s interest in us.