EMPIRE SELF-RAISING F LOUR
Rises Above all Others.
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The West AUSTRALIAN
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911
In and Around the Home
If we should realise in practice the hatred that God bears to that detestable vice, envy and the love He ,
'alai Pleasures uud falaces though we may to oo, ever so humble, to. se's no dace like noute II
Little 'likings A raindrop is a little thing,
Many make the showers ;
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Make up all the hours. One little star at close of day, Vainly seems to twinkle,
Till at length the shining hosts All the blue besprinkle. a little thing To the happy giver. Yet it ofttimes leaves a calm, Over life's rough river ; Gentle words are never lost, Howe'er small their seeming : Sunny rays of love are they O'er our pathwao, gleaming.
it is the little thingsLittle joys and trials, Little Pleasures, little griefs, And little self -denials, Little hopes and little fearsFill our morn and even And little beams of 14e and faith Light our way to Heaven. Ah
Little Blemishes in the Blouse It is astonishing how patience and
strength are impel3ed upon by the neglect of little things about the housecreaky hinges, doors that latch and unlatch hard, catches that don't -atch, loose handles, etc.-annoy ances noticed every day, but never repaired
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unusually provoking unless some with thing happens in connection one of these little slipshods. the A good thing is to go over house Periodically and remedy these at matters-you will be surprised the number of them. Why not replace knobs and handles, paste up torn corners of wall paper, all oil hinges, touch up With paint the spots on doors or window frames Don't that have become marred. gilt up with unbeautiful blemishes.
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If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend, experiyour wise counsellor, caution ence your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.-Addison. 'rake thou the thought that wisdom
From the Catholic girl trained in It is a convent much is expected. the exception when such a girl does not carry herself with the mien and grace of culture and refinement. Vulgarity, licence, slang, and loudness so foreign to the convent -bred are society will not believe girl that that, where these social blemishes abound, there could ever have been a no matter how convent training, loudly she asserts her prerogative.
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That knowledge dies of newer truth That only duty simply done Walks always with the step of youth. ;
Those charged with the conduct and direction of others, and who occupy the first place, should still be the servants of all, and show to those
they under them the condescension wished exercised in their regard when they were inferiors.
Let each act be done as perfectly as we should wish to do it if we were doing it for the last time-our last meditation, our last rosary, cur last examination of conscience, our last act of contrition, our last Communion, our last Mass, our last visit.Father Russell, S.J. c n We all know that Christ's life We 'a, earth was a life of suffering. &now He was the Man of Sorrow. We
know that all who in any way wish to be like Christ must take op His cross and follow Him. Yet we are rebellious when suffering comes to us. The primrose Path is not. the nest path for the Christian. A life composed entirely of earthly joy would have no room for thoughts of deeper and higher things. It requires the touch of suffering to bring us to a realisation of what we are.
man's best help is himself, his own heart, his resolute purpose-it cannot be done by proxy. A man's mind may be aroused by another, but he must mould his own characone ter. What if a man fails in thing ? Let him try again-he must quarry his own nature. Let him try hard, and try again, for he does not know what he can do till he tries. A
It has been kindly and wisely orour fleshy tabernacles dained that with years grow time-worn, so that its immortal inmate, the soul, may feel the less regret when called upon to abandon it, how much more so leave it to possess the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that passetb not away eternal in the heavens.
patronise Our Adlertisats IN GIVE THE PREFERENCE THOSE YOUR PURCHASES TO BUSINESS MEN WHOSE ADVERTHIS TISEMENTS YOU SEE IN THEY ARE USUALLY PAPER.
THE BEST IN THEIR LINE, AND THE FACT THAT THEY COURTEOUSLY INVITE YOUR TRADE THROUGH A CATHOLIC MEDIUM, SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED.
"I have been taking some moving
Pictures of life on your farm." " Did you ketch the hired man in motion ? " " I think so." " Ah, science kin do anything these
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has for that greatest virtue, charity, we should feel such a generousness of heart and be conscious of such an elevation of mind that we would possess a foretaste of the Kingdom' of We are Perfectly aware of Heaven. bound the fact that our lives are This up with the lives of others. is evident, but we may not think of what it includes when the idea presents itself. This part of the Divine relations is most marvellous in the economy of God's love for ':s. for we by are bound up with each other countless ties as we move through It is then the fact ennobling life. to us that God has arranged each life, your life and my- life, not for with you alone, or me alone, but countless influences and relations in respect of ochers or derived from others so that we are his children, hound to each other by the sO2 hinds us to Him. In the light of harthis great truth how can we a vice as envy why bour such should cupidity be Permitted to grow into that monstrous and satanic passion ? It is the only feeling of our cf fallen nature the gratification which is not associated with a motion of pleasure or Pride, or some pursuit that attracts. What did the the envious labourers lose because envied ones were paid munificently. What did they gain harbouring mal-
" In this world of evil, where so many unholy influences breathe about to us, it is the Christians' mission be pure to keep themselves 'unspotted from the world.' Do you ask Christ can how is this possible ? keep you. If God can make a little Plant so that no dust can stain its whiteness, can He not by His grace ;
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no so transform your heart that sin shall stain its purity ? Be therefore Perfect, even as your Father who is in Heaven is perfect."
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. " I will strengthen thee," says God I will help thee yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of Can there be My righteousness." a more gracious promise ? Can there be one more absolutely suited to the needs of human nature ? Long centuries since it was found out that it is not in man who walketh " to direct his steps," and the intervening ages have only furnished additional proof that it is human weakness and human Perversity which stands in the way of human haPPiness.
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towards their fortunate fellows, and a lawless spirit of injustice towards their employers ? Does it not think evseem the spirit of Satan il or to do evil for evil's sake. ttnr most fortunately turned lives are away from the thought of that interdependence which God bas made a law on We cannot get of those lives. without each other, and whether we look at this relation in view of the ice
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BURIED ON SUSPICION. A
political agent in a certain re-
vision court in the North of Ireland objected to a voter whose name was on the register on the ground that he was dead. Conclusive proof was demanded by a lawyer for the opposite
spiritual or temporal order 't 'S most wonderful product of God's love. We are so unfortunate that instead of desiring each other's good we only think of some Petty advantaea,
party. " But, sir, how do you know the ourselves. man's dead ? " he asked. When. people get together is the ab" Well," was the reply, " I don't quite know. It's very difficult to sent spared ? If a good is performit is attributed to hypocrisy. ed Prove." the " As I suspected," returned if we receive a favour instead of belawyer, " you don't know whether ing grateful, the first thought is what has the donor expected. This he's dead or not." a Quite cautious the agent coolly unworthy thought strings from I "I was saying sir, that is almost universal, continued baseness or and don't know whether he is dead that s most ready to receive not, but I do know this-they buried equally ready to hate the donor's generous hand. Well, we shall know bim about a month ago on suspicion. each other's secret sins hereafter ;
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Teacher (after explaining the character of the Pharisee) " And now what do we mean by 'hypocrite' ? " Please miss, a man wot " Pupil he says he is wot he isn't, but :
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the and may God grant that when it time of that knowledge comes, shall be to glorify Him for what He has done for us. Our sins shall be made visible to the universe ; but repentance shall bestow upon them a glory like in a way to that which the surrounds and emanates from wounds of Our Divine Lord. The splendour shining from the wounds of repentant sin, from the tongue so long poisoning the air with malignant words, from the head so long the home of hateful thoughts, shall be in a degree as the infinite brightness of the wounds the Sinless One received for us.
The Vice of Envy
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