In this little volume you will
find "Gems of Truth" from over one thousand people, representatives of
different ranks of life and of all ages, from the budding youth to the
matured Saint. The primary object of this versatile book is to
laugh with those who laugh, to weep with those who weep, and lift the
thoughts of all to the higher things of life.
The Quotations have been printed as handed to us
by the contributors, unaltered by the compiler, with a few exceptions.
The Editor herewith expresses his gratitude to the
loyal band of collectors, and contributors who have made the publication
of this possible.
T. W. T. November 1932
As a Memento of Lord Carson's visit for the
opening of Parliament Buildings, Northern Ireland by H.R.H. The Prince
of Wales.
Friendship is a
Sheltering Tree
Carson of Duncairn, November 1932
Emily Armstrong, Tullamore - All things
come to the other fellow is you sit down and wait.
Eleanor Lawrence, Tullamore - In Prosperity our friends know us;
in Adversity we know our friends.
Helen Armstrong, Tullamore - When you come to the end of your
rope, tie a knot and hang on.
H. A. Boate, Dublin - It is better to be five minutes late in
this world than twenty years too early in the next.
(Rev.) F. T. Parker, Tullamore - Since we are sure of having what
we wish, let us take care to ask only for high things.
Kathleen Norris, Ardnuche, Horseleap - Often the right word, said
at the right time, has changed a whole life.
Eveline Graham, Tullamore - Once bitten, twice shy.
J. Wakefield, Tullamore - Dare to be true, nothing can need a
lie; a fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
A. J. Murphy, Dublin - The Stock Exchange is the only place where
there are more quotations than in Shakespeare.
K. E. Lawrence, Rochfort Bridge, Mullingar - The more we know,
the more we learn to know how little we know.
F. J. Laurence, Rochfort Bridge - Honesty is the best policy.
L. Charlton, Tullamore - Unborn to-morrow and dead yesterday, why
fret about them if to-day is sweet.
Ruby Holmes, Tullamore - Do unto others as you would be done by.
Baby Ian Boles, Boyle - "I mean to have it understood that tho'
I'm little, yet I'm good"
Mrs. Wm. M. Forsyth, 25 Sydney Parade, Dublin - Beneath the
veriest ash there hides a spark of soul, Which, quickened by love's
breath may yet pervade the whole O' the grey and free again be fire.
(Browning)
Wm. M. Forsyth, 25 Sydney Parade, Dublin - "Build thee more
stately mansions O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low
vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from
heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving
thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea."
H. H. Forsyth, 25 Sydney Parade, Dublin - My knowledge of that
life is small, the eye of faith is dim; But 'tis enough that Christ
knows all, and I shall be with Him.
Baby June Boles, Boyle - "Jesus, friend of little children, be a
friend to me."
Miss Bruce, Strabane - Be true to your word, to your work, to
your friend.
A Friend - Love is a dream - Marriage the alarm clock.
E. H. Colvin, Strabane - Good girls love their brothers, but I so
good have grown, That I love other brothers far better than my own.
Emily S. Bruce, Co. Fermanagh - When you receive a kindness,
remember it; When you do one, forget it.
Mrs. E. Earls, Slavin - There is a name I love to hear, I love to
sing its worth, It sounds like music to my ear, the sweetest name on
earth.
Mrs. A. Earls, Slavin - Truth is a rock, large enough for all to
stand upon, Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
Irene Gillespie, Ballyarden, Boyle - Despise not little things,
God hides his Majestic Oaks in small Acorns; And the glowing wealth of a
harvest field in a handful of tiny Seeds.
Frank Lloyd, Longford - A little nonsense now and then is
relished by the wisest men. (Shakespeare)
Jennie Boles, Clooneen, Drumkeeron - "Love one another, and so
fulfill the law of Christ."
Edna Fitzroy, Tullamore - Brooding over our troubles only hatches
them.
Eileen Knowles, Tullamore - True friends are like Diamonds,
precious and rare, false ones like Autumn leaves, found everywhere.
K. E. Falkiner, Tullamore - Troubles are like babies, the more
you nurse them the more they grow.
J. H. Warren, Tullamore - Can it be true, the grace He is
declaring; O let us trust Him for His words are fair, Man, what is this,
and why art thou despairing? God shall forgive thee all but thy despair.
Eileen Mathews, Tullamore - Among so many can be care? can
special love be everwhere? I asked my soul be thought of this; in just
that place of his where He hath put and keepeth you, God hath no other
thing to do.
Bessie Keele, Birr - Hope springs not from what we've done, but
from the work we've just begun.
W. Morrow, 135 N. C. Road, Dublin - The best way to keep a body
from becoming a busybody is to keep a body busy.
E. S. Boles, Belmont, Boyle - The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. Ps. 103.
Mrs. McBrian, Upper Ardies, Roscor
- If God puts a burden upon
you, He puts His own arm underneath.
John McBrian, Lower Ardies, Roscor
- What is home without a wife?
peace perfect peace.
Miss Mills, Upper Ardies, Roscor - "God is Love"
T. J. McBrien, Whealt, Belleck - Then at the balance let's be
mute, We never can adjust it, What's done we partly may compute, But
know not what's resisted. (Burns)
J. Gordon, Churchhill, Enniskillen
- If self the wavering balance
shake, It's seldom well adjusted. (Burns)
E. Gormley, Cules, Killadeas
- He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim, He gives the very best to those, Who leave
the choice with Him.
D. J. Johnston, Killadeas - God made man and rested, but since
God made woman, neither God nor man had rested.
Charlotte Fleck, Killadeas P.E.S.
- There are loyal hearts, there
are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true, Then give to
the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
S. J. Marshall, Killadeas P.E.S.
- The kiss of the sun for
pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God's heart in a
garden, than anywhere else on earth.
A. Woods, Ballinamallard - The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want.
Anon, Boyle - Tidiness is one of those virtues the absence of
which people pardon in themselves, but not in others.
R. S. Boles, Boyle
- "God is Love"
J. Cullen, Boyle - "Thou shalt see greater things than these."
A. H. Gillespie, Boyle - What is the use of repining, For where
there's a will there's a way, To-morrow the Sun will by shining,
Although it is raining to-day.
(Rev.) J. A. Gordon, Drumshambo - Man is not God, but hath God's
end to serve, A Master to obey, a cause to take, Somewhat to cast off,
something to become. (Browning).
Mrs. Boles, Belmont, Boyle - "Bless the Lord, Oh, my Soul, and
forget not all His benefits."
J. C. McIlwaine, Boyle - Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly.
J. F. Acheson, Maryborough, Leix - "Words are things, and a small
drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought produces that which makes
thousands perhaps millions think. (Byron)
Florrie Boles, Boyle - It is always good to know, if only in
passing charming human being, it refreshes one like flowers, and woods,
and clear brooks. (George Eliot)
J. H. Boles, Boyle - "In Him was life, and the life was the light
of men"
A. Well Wisher - "The Lord is my light and my Salvation, of whom
shall I be afraid."
E. Gormley, Drumcaw, Killadeas - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis
hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Mrs. Clarke, Buninubber - Give me a faithful heart, likeness to
Thee, That each departing day henceforth may see, Some work of love
begun, some deed of kindness done.
E. Pursly, Irvinestown - Not mind, not mine the choice, In things
or great or small, Be Thou my guide, my strength, My wisdom, and my all.
W. Gormley, Cules, Killsdeas - Be not deceived, God is not
mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap. Gal. 6., 7.
J. Magown, Rossfad - For the wages of sin is death. But the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
S. McMorris, Cules, Killadeas
- For me to have made one soul the
better for my birth, To have planted but one flower in the garden of the
earth, To have sown in the souls of men one seed that shall not die, To
have been a link in the chain of life shall be immortality.
G. Kerr, Irvinestown
- I am living on the mountain, underneath a
cloudless sky, I am drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry, I
am feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply, For I am dwelling in
Beulah Land.
W. L. McKinley, Irvinestown - Him that cometh unto me I will in
no wise cast out.
W. Rsid (Reid?), Irvinestown - Jesus Christ - the same yesterday,
to-day, and forever.
Mrs. Perry, Killadeas - Blest be the tongue that speaks no ill,
Whose words are always true, That keeps the law of kindness still,
What-so-ever others do.
E. Perry, Killadeas - Little deeds of kindness, little words of
love, Make this earth an Eden, like the Heaven above.
Mr. Megahey, Killadeas
- Fight the good fight with all thy might;
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right; Lay hold on life and it
shall be thy joy and crown eternally.
Methodist S.S., Killydease
- We are little children, weak and apt
to stray; Saviour guide and keep us in the Heavenly way.
L. Gormley, Killadeas
- Only one life 'twill soon be past, only
what's done for Jesus will last.
C. Weir, Alexander Park, Holywood
- "There are nettles
everywhere, but smooth green grasses are more common still, the blue of
Heaven is larger than the cloud."
S. O'Reilly, Dalkey, Dublin
- The purest treasure mortal times
afford is spotless reputation.
W. E. Wood, 4 Pier View Terrace, Holywood
- In all thy ways
acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
Betty - It will be all the same, yes all the same, A hundred
years from now; No good a hurrin,' no good a scurrin'; No good kicking
up a row. For you won't be here and I won't be here, When a
hundred years have gone; And somebody else will be well in the cart, And
the world will still go on.
Mourne Grange - When two friends part, they should lock each
other's secrets and exchange keys.
M. A. Bruce, Tullycherry, Co. Fermanagh
- Happiness was made to
be shared.
L. A. Rowe, Lake View House, Co. Fermanagh - Kindness is a
language that the deaf can hear, and the dumb understand.
R. G. Rowe, Lake View
- Contentment consists not in great wealth,
but few wants.
A. Smyth - A fool and his money is easily parted.
C. I. Henderson, Magherafelt - Know how sublime a thing it is to
suffer and be strong.
D. Henderson, Magherafelt - A little learning is a dangerous
thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring.
S. McCleery, Magherafelt
- Genius is an immense capacity for
taking pains.
F. J. P. Cootehill - "The time has come" the Walrus said, to talk
to many things, Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and
Kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.
J. P., Portrush - That which hath been is now; and that which is
to be has already been. There is no new thing under the sun.
F. J. P., Portrush
- There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we will.
D. J. C., Felipstowe - Don't cry over spilt milk, there's enough
water in it already.
N. L. Greenisland - Do the thing that's nearest, Tho' it's weary
whiles; Helping when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
Mrs. E. Marshall, Daleholme, Holywood
- No receipt openeth the
heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears and
hopes. (Bacon)
N. Menary, 11 Abbey Street, Armagh - The two keys to success are
luck and pluck - luck in finding someone to pluck. The wise man makes
hay with the grass that grows under the other man's feet.
C. H. Woods, 18 Market Street, Armagh
- The reaction between mind
and knowledge is stimulated by the catalytic influence of interest.
J. B. Barton, Loughgall, Co. Armagh - Never be anxious, but
always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving. So shall God's peace, that surpasses all our dreams, keep
guard over our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Phil., IV. 6., 7.
R. Scott, 18 Market Street, Armagh - A still tongue maketh a wise
head.
M. Mossman, Market, St. Armagh - "Think and Thank"
A. Kingston, Newry Road, Armagh - "I am the resurrection, and the
life. He that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live,
and he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die. (St. John)
E. A. Lauder, Fort Mount, Enniskillen - How rare it is to find a
soul still enough to hear the voice of God.
R. M. McVittey, Armagh
- What is this life, if full of care; we
have no time to stand and stare.
F. G. L., Belfast - My candle burns at both its ends; It will not
last the night. But O my foes, and O my friends, It gives a lovely
light.
A. M. P., Belfast - Man's happiest days are - the day he weds his
wife, and the day she dies.
M. R. G., Belfast - The time of the heaviest rainfall; it is the
nearest to growing fair.
G. Borrow, R. A. C., Bullymena (Ballymena)
- Life is sweet,
brother, There's night and day brother, both sweet things; Sun, moon,
and stars brother, all sweet things; There is likewise a wind on the
heath.
H. L. - Better a finger off than aye wagg in Aberdeen.
I. F. Faulkner, Whiterock, Manorhamilton - A perfect friendship
needeth two, The smaller number will not do, For he who seeketh but his
own, The grace of friendship ne'er hath known; Love then thy friend
although he chide, Turn not in angry mood aside; And if his feet shall
go astray, Entice him back to wisdom's way.
H. Wilson, Manorhamilton
- We may build more splendid
habitations, Fill our room with paintings and with sculptures, But we
cannot buy with gold the old associations.
A. Bryans, Ballybofey
- Never make love in a field, for oats have
ears, potatoes eyes, and horses carry tails.
R. Flanagan, Manorhamilton
- When the golden sun is setting And
your mind from care is free, When of absent ones you are thinking, Will
you sometimes think of me?
Mourne Grange - Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our
striving cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our
ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
Mrs. Gillespie, Armagh
- A faithful friend is the medicine of
life.
J. A. Peel, Armagh - Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.
Mourne Grange - Were I not cold how should I come to know, One
potent pleasure of the sun's sweet rays? Or did I never breast the
driving snow, What bliss were sweetest kernal of June days?
S. McVitty, Armagh
- Oh, friend, true happiness lies in content;
And sweet content finds everywhere enough.
J. P. McVitty, Armagh
- If it be possible, as much as lieth in
you, live peaceably with all men.
G. M. S., Belfast - Love many, trust few, always paddle your own
Canoe.
A Friend - The best argument for love - is love.
D. C. S.
- Man wants but little here below, And gets it if he
can, But woman, bless her little heart, She only wants a man.
J. J. Evans, Belfast
- If you want your tea both good and strong,
Come to Lepper and you wont be wrong; The value of these is sure to
please; Just two more chests same as before.
B. Criswell, Londonderry
- There is nothing like a cup of tea -
except another cup of tea.
J. D. Jackson, Dromahair - Though streams between us roll, and
though the voice I speak to you seems strange. What does it matter since
I know our hearts are never out of range.
W. Rutherford, Manorhamilton
- The night has a thousand eyes, and
the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying
of the sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; Yet the
light of a whole life dies when love is done.
W. H. Pye, Carrickleitrim
- I have no wife to trouble my life, No
lover to prove untrue; So I ne'er sit down with a tear or a frown, But
paddle my own Canoe.
L. Chittick, Manorhamilton - Think again before you utter words
which cause another pain; Wounded hearts are long in healing, if they
ever heal again. Where's the use of being sorry when regret is all in
vain; Curb your tongue just for a moment - think again.
J. McGowan, Dublin
- May the man never grow fat who carries two
faces under one hat.
E. A. Thompson, Manorhamilton - At the fall of the night in
Ireland When spring in the land is fair; At the fall of the night in
Ireland When passionate June is there, When woods are ruddy in Autumn Or
hoary with winter's rime; At the fall of the night in Ireland 'Tis
Lovers' time.
D. F. Clarke, Manorhamilton - Full many a shot at random sent,
Finds mark the Archer never meant; And many a word at random spoken, May
hurt, or heat (heal?), a heart half broken.
A. Taylor, Aughamelta, Drumahair
- Let fate do her worst, there
are treasures in store, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot
destroy; Which comes to us in night-time sorrow and pain, And bring back
the footsteps which joy used to wear.
J. C. Shanks, Manorhamilton
- Do all the good you can, By all the
means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At
all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you
can.
L. Chittick, Ballybofey - When you get married and your husband
gets cross, just take up the poker and say "I'm the Boss."
Mrs. Magee, Manorhamilton - Don't look for the flaws as you pass
through life, But if by chance you find them, It is wise and kind, to be
somewhat blind, and think of the virtues behind them.
A, Magee, Ballybofey
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
weep, and you weep alone.
J. Alexander, Drumquin - Naught's had, all's spent[ All's spent!
When our desires are gained without content.
G. Siberry, Manorhamilton
- Remember well and keep in mind, A
constant friend is hard to find; And when you find one kind and true,
Change not the old for the new.
A. Thompson, Manorhamilton - A promise made, is a debt unpaid.
H. Burriss, Manorhamilton - What is, is best; trust God for the
rest.
A. Armstrong, London - Give what you have, to some it would be
better than you dare to think. (Longfellow)
J. A. Golden, Manorhamilton
- Love many, trust few, always paddle
your own Canoe.
D. Flanagan, Lisburn Road, Belfast - If you your lips would keep
from slips, five things observe with care; of whom you speak, to whom
you speak, and how, and when, and where.
G. Burnside, Manorhamilton
- Be good sweet maid, and let who will
be clever.
L. H. Reid, Toronto - When angry, count ten before you speak;
when very angry, count one hundred.
J. McGowan, Dublin - Take away the self conceited, and there will
be elbow room in the world.
May Reid, Toronto - A wise old owl sat in an oak, the more he
heard the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard - why
aren't we more like that bird?
G. Chittick, Wallesy - Help the weak if you are strong, love the
old if you are young, Own a fault, if you are wrong, if you are angry -
Hold your tongue.
G. Irvine, Downpatrick - Yet one thing more, if thou woulds't
perfect be, Sell all thou hast and give to the poor, And come follow me.
Mrs. E. Shanks, Manorhamilton - Advice is seldom welcome, and
those who need it most, like it least.
G. Irvine, Downpatrick - Love all, trust few, do wrong to none;
keep thy friends under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, but
never taxed for speech. (Shakespeare)
E. Elliott, Manorhamilton
- There is so much good in the worst of
us, And so much bad in the best of us; That it ill becomes of us, To
speak evil of the rest of us.
M. A. Belford, Portrush - It may only be a handshake, It may only
be a smile,
If it tends to make life happy, It is surely well worth while.
L. A. Fletcher, Manorhamilton - One little deed of kindness may
cheer a heavy heart; So wait not till the hand of death shall sever
friends apart, But scatter roses now, and make life's pathway glad, The
rays of light and sunshine may flood some heart that's bad.
J. Bustard, Manorhamilton
- Let us live for those who love us,
for those who prove us true; For the heaven that shines above us, and
waits our coming too, For the wrongs that need resistance, for the cause
that needs Assistance; For the future in the distance, and the good that
we can do.
McDevitt, Belfast - Men have many faults, poor women have but
two; There's nothing good they say and nothing right they do.
(Mrs.) M. E. Beacom, Manorhamilton
- Smile awhile! And while you
smile another smiles, And soon there's miles and miles of smiles, And
life's worth while because you smile.
O. Rutherford, Rockfield, Manorhamilton
- If nobody smiled and
nobody cheered, and nobody helped us along, If each every moment looked
after himself, and the good things all went to the strong. If nobody
cared just a little for you, and we all stood alone in the battle of
life, What a dreary old place this would be.
L. Faulkner, Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Don't waste your time in
longing for bright impossible things, Don't scorn to be a rushlight
because you are not a star, But brigdten (brighten) some piece of
darkness by shining just were (where) you are.
J. Rutherford, Manorhamilton
- To err is human, to admit it is
not.
R. Elliott, Manorhamilton - Do not unto others what you would no
like done to yourself.
G. Gilbert, Manorhamilton - Do all the good you can in the world,
and make as little noise about it as possible.
W. J. Belford, Manorhamilton
- You were born in Ireland? "I was"
"what part?" why all of me, of course!
J. Simpson, Ederney
- Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for
whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.
J. McCartney, Drumquin
- For is he come by the road, and come not
by the hill; And come not by the sea or air, yet come he surely will,
Close all the roads of all the world, love's road is open still.
J. H. Vance, Ballinamallard
- The horse bit the Parson, how came
it to pass? The horse heard the Parson say, all flesh is as grass.
J. K. Hunt, Balmoral, Belfast - The moving finger writes, and
having writ, moves on! Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to
cancel half a line; Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
W. J. McLernon, Magherafelt
- The past you can't recall; you can
only make use of the present, the future you know nothing about.
W. White, Newtownards
- What is a man without a wife? two pounds
per week better.
M. Johnston, Magherafelt - There's always a way to rise my lad,
there's always a way to advance, and the road that leads to mount
success, goes not by the road of chance, But passes the way of work and
toil, through the valley of persevere, and the man who succeeds when
others fail; is the man who pays more dear.
W. A. Harrison, Magherafelt
- And when the last great Scorer
comes, To write against your name; He'll ask not if you won or lost, But
how you played the game.
Nurse Ferguson, Brook Villa, Liverpool
- Don't look for the flaws
as you go through life, And even when you find them, It's wise and kind
to be somewhat blind, And look for the virtues behind them.
A. F. Morrow, Churchhill
- Have you done your very best? has your
life met every test? Does Divine approval rest on all you do? did you
lend a helping hand? Help a fallen sinner stand? is the world a better
place because of you.
W. Graham, Enniskillen - Here's a sigh to those who love me, And
a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart
for every fate.
(Mrs.) S. Simpson, Ederney - A heart felt smile, a gentle touch,
A thoughtful word, a tender touch, A passing act of kindness done, 'Tis
all but it is much.
T. Williamson, Manorhamilton - Doing an injury puts you below
your enemy, Revenging one, makes you but even with him; Forgiving one,
sets you above him. (Franklin)
S. Francy, Cootehill, Co. Cavan - Some men were born for great
things, others were born for small, but it's not "recorded why" that I
was born at all.
D. Chittick, Drumquin - We cannot always choose our road in life!
but we can choose whether we walk along the shadows or the sunny side.
Mrs. Henry, Dromahair - When your days in life are numbered, And
your path is safely trod, Many your name in gold be written, In the
autograph of God.
J. K. Hunt, Balmoral, Belfast - A man of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.
M. Chittick, Ederney - Not I but Christ be honoured, loved
exalted. Not I but Christ be seen, known, and heard. Not I but Christ in
every action, thought and word.
B. Kee, Letternakenny - A hard boiled egg is a cure for love,
When mixed with a turnip tart; For the weight at your stomach is sure to
relieve The burden that lies at your heart.
M. Flanagin - All the joy which does not face, is that which
grows from self sacrifice.
M. E. Irvine, Carricklietrim - Think of ease - but work on.
W. Dundas, Derrygonnelly - He knows, He loves, He cares; nothing
this truth can dim, He gives the very best to those who leave the choice
to Him.
J. D. Carrothers, Enniskillen - It has been to me a light, in the
darkest night; A comfort in my sorrow; a lamp for my way, And it ne're
was as dear as it is to-day, My old, old Bible. And still through life's
journey, until my last breath, We travel together, my Bible and I.
N. Morrow, Enniskillen - There is no argument equal to a happy
smile.
A. E. Morrow, The Abbey, Ballyshannon - Only one life, 'twill
soon be past, Only what's done for Jesus will last.
B. Beacom, Enniskillen
- What a man earns in the day-time goes
into his pocket, but what he spends in the evening goes into his
character.
Mrs. Wadesworth, Churchhill - Every word spoken in kindness is a
contribution to the world's happiness; every word spoken in anger or
bitterness adds a little something to the world's sorrow.
B. Stevenson, Donegal
- The happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts.
B. Stevenson, Donegal - We must share of we would help, that good
thing from above, Ceasing to give we cease to have, such is the law of
love.
L. Morrow, Mullinahinch, Churchhill - Make the best of
everything, think the best of everybody, hope the best for yourself. By
so-doing, you will be lifting yourself and those about you to a higher
plane of living.
I. Marshall, Daleholme, Holywood - Help me, O God, for my boat is
so small and thy ocean so wide.
A. Mason, Thorburn, Marino - If you think that the world is all
wrong - remember it contains people like you.
Irene Smith, Enniskillen
- A wise old owl sat in an oak, the more
he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard - why
aren't we more like that bird?
J. Foy, Cauldrom, Derrydonnelly (Caldrum)
- There is so much good
in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us; That it ill
becomes any of us, To speak evil of the rest of us.
S. Kinghan, Daleholme, Holywood
- The greatest thing a man can do
for his Heavenly Father is - to be kind to some of His other children.
(Henry Drummard)
A. C. Marshall, Daleholme, Holywood - There's a Divinity that
shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. (Shakespeare)
(Rev.) J. W. P. Elliott, Holywood
- "All you can hold in your
cold, dear hand, is what you have given away."
Mrs. J. S. Crookshank, Holywood
- Cheerfulness is a small virtue,
it is true, but it sheds such a brightness around us in this life, that
neither dark clouds nor rain can dispel its happy influence.
Mrs. A. C. Marshall, Craigtara, Holywood
- I tell you they have
not died, their hands clasp yours and mine; They are now but glorified,
they have become Divine; They live! they know! they see! they shout with
every breath, "Life is eternity, there is no death!"
A. Morrow, Brookborough
- The day is best werein we give a
thought to others' sorrows, Forgetting self, we learn to live, And
blessings born of kindly deeds, make golden our to-morrows.
Mrs. J. J. Ovens (Owens?), Legg, Roscor
- Earth hath no sorrow
that Heaven cannot heal.
E. R. Morrow, Mullinahinch, Churchhill
- Character may be
manifested in the great moments - but it is made in the small ones.
P. Morrow, Ballyshannon - It never was loving that emptied the
heart, Nor giving that emptied the purse.
Mrs. R. Morrow, Churchhill
- We are not here to play, to dream,
to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the
struggle face it, 'tis God's gift, Be Strong.
Nurse McClure, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- More things are wrought by
prayer than this world dreams of (Tennysons' "Morte D'Arthur")
Violet Ferguson, Lisburn Road, Belfast - If you can fill the
unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds worth of distance run, Your's is
the earth and everything that's in it, and what is more you'll be a man
my son! (Kipling)
Irene Breathwaite, Lisburn Road, Belfast - Have you had a
kindness shown - pass it on.
Edith Dale, Lisburn Road, Belfast - For when the one great Scorer
comes, To write against your name; He writes, not what you won or lost,
But how you played the game.
Nurse Vernon, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- Love never faileth.
Nurse A. Hynds, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- The common round the
trivial task, Will furnish all you ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves
the road, To bring us daily nearer God.
Nurse Daley, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- He that is down need fear no
fall, he that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall have God to
be his guide.
Nurse Charleston, Lisburn Road, Belfast - Content is better, all
the wise will grant, than any earthly good that thou canst want. And
discontent with which the foolish fill their minds, is worse than any
earthly ill.
W. Thompson, Alexandra Terrace, Dromore - The mind has a thousand
eyes, and the heart but one, Yet the light of a whole life dies when
love is done.
H. C. Todd, Fairy Hill, Dromore - A long lane, a narrow walk; a
nice girl and time to talk.
V. Ferguson, St. Catherines, Derrygonnelly
- You must live each
day at your very best; the work of the world is done by few, God asks
that a part be done by you.
T. Morrow, Ballyshannon - When your days in life are numbered,
And the earth no more you tread, May your name in gold be written, In
the autograph of God.
A. C. Marshall, Craigtara, Holywood - Many beautiful days are
spoiled by the fellow who cannot help thinking there'll be rain before
night.
Mrs. McConnell, Tara, Holywood - The pleasure of doing good is
the only one that never wears out.
Mrs. K. Marshall, Holywood - Don't worry - it may never happen.
Anonymous - Were you stung to prove your metal? dare to grasp
another nettle.
Mrs. R. Orr, Highland View, Holywood - God hath not promised
skies ever blue, flower-strewn pathways always for you; God hath not
promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain; But
He hath promised strength from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Miss Marshall, Craigtara, Holywood - The beauty of a lily and the
beauty of a face, Make light a gloomy corner and exalt the common-place,
But there's nothing shines so brightly in this world of human need, As
the beauty and glory of a kind and thoughtful deed.
Anonymous - 'Tis easy to smile if you're up in the world, But
what will you do if you're down? Will you make things worth while, With
a jolly old smile? or- Make them worse with a frown.
Nurse M. V. Grant, South Parade, Belfast
- The blood of Jesus
Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1., 7.)
A. Bawn, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- I live for those who love me,
for those who prove me true; For the Heaven that smiles above me, and
awaits my spirit too, For the cause that lacks assistance; for the wrong
that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, and the good that
I can do.
K. Wittaker, Beech Park, Dromore - In this world of froth and
bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, And
patience in your own.
J. Whittaker, Dromore - Whatever you are - be that, Whatever you
say - be true, Straight forwardly act, be honest in fact; Be nobody else
but you.
H. Mullan, Dromore - When earth's last picture is painted, and
the tubes are twisted and dried; When the oldest colours have faded, and
the youngest critic has died; We shall rest, and faith we shall need it
- lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of all good workmen shall
put us to work anew.
Kitty Weir, Dromore - The moving finger writes, and having writ
moves on; Nor all the piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a
line; Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
P. McNulty, Aughadara, Dromore
- "Whatever the weather may be"
says he, "Whatever the weather may be" It's the song ye sing and the
smile ye wear, That makes the sun shine everywhere.
Mrs. McFarland, Ednagun, Dromore
- "All true work is Sacred.
W. Alexandra, The Wood, Dromore
- The Jeweller does not cut and
polish a paving stone; it is the precious stones he cuts. It is a sign
that the Lord counts us worth cutting, when He chastens us.
R. Alexandra, The Wood, Dromore
- If life be a pleasure, so death
should be; For it was given to us by the same Master.
Nurse McGimpsey, The Hillhead, Newtownards
- Keep smiling though
the skies are grey, And look upon the bright side, But if no bright side
you can see, Then polish up the dark side.
Nurse Bell, Sandhurst Gardens, Belfast
- Do a good turn as you
go, and the going will be brighter; Sing as you work through the day,
and your task will be lighter.
Nurse M. Anderson, Mary Street, Ballycastle
- Only by Thy power
and love, fit us for the part above, Still the deadly storm within,
gusts of passion, waves of sin.
V. K. Johnston, Nurses' Home, Belfast
- Through labour to rest;
through combat to victory. (Thomas A. Kempis)
Nurse M. McFerran, Percy Street, Belfast
- How far that little
candle throws his beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Nurse E. V. Acheson, Ballygomartin Road, Belfast - Attempt the
end and never stand in doubt, Nothing's so hard, but search may find it
out. (Herrick)
Nurse McDowell, Nurses' Home, Belfast - "What is this life if
full of care, we have no time to stand and stare." (W. H. Davies)
Nurse A. Lemon, Lisburn Road, Belfast - "Ask in faith and it
shall be given you; seek and ye shall find."
Miss M. Lang, Agincourt Avenue, Belfast
- I know - That all the
sorrow of our lives. We shall not toil nor wander any more, but seek the
sacred rivers and find rest.
Nurse Harkness, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- The deepest ice which
ever froze, can only o'er the surface close, The living stream lies
quick below, and flows and cannot cease to flow.
B. Alexandra, Togherdo
- Friend to God's word be true as steel,
Nor conscience stir no inward strife; Fear Him, do right, and thou hast
learned The secret of a happy life.
B. Alexandra, Togherdo - Gather the children, give them a chance;
Who'll be the leader quick to advance, Fighting for homeland, spurn
danger's brink, Lead them to victory - Down with the Drink.
Olive Wallace, Dromore
- "If you keep your face to the sun, every
shadow will fall behind you"
L. McBrien, Roscor, Dromore - Roses are red, Violets are blue,
sugar is sweet and so are you.
T. Waddell, Post Office, Beleek - Kissing one's sweetheart is
like eating soup with a fork; it takes a long time to get enough.
A. E. Earls, Slavin, Roscor
- A stitch in time saves nine.
R. N. Hazlett, Ulster Bank, Dromore
- Lives of great men oft'
remind us, We must choose our wives with care, Or departing leave behind
us, Half our natural crop of hair.
J. Wilson, Marlborough Avenue, Londonderry
- Not till the loom is
silent, and the shuttle cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas and
explain the reason why; The dark threads are just as needful in the
weavers skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern
He has planned.
May McBrien, Belleek - Who sees with equal eye as God of all, A
hero perish or a sparrow fall; Atoms and systems into ruin hurled, And
now a bubble burst, and now a world unknown. Some people like a starry
night, When the sky is clear and blue; But my delight is a showery
night, when the one coat covers two.
Mr. Knox, Belleek - Whatever else is changing, God's love will
still abide, And we can brave the future, with Him close by our side.
(R. J. Bustard) Whealt C.D.S. Ltd. - "Better late than never, is
a comforting refrain, Saying when we reach the station "too late" to
catch the train,"
Mr. A. H. Charters, R. M. C., Belleek - Heaven bless the wives,
they fill our lives, with little bees and honey, They soothe life's
shocks, they mend our socks, but - don't they spend the money.
N. C. McClure, Belleek
- "I'm not denying the women are foolish;
God almighty made them to match the men.
W. Johnston, Belleek - Here's to the man that kisses his wife And
kisses his wife alone; But there's many a man kissing another man's
wife, When he ought to be kissing his own.
J. W. Graham, Belleek
- What! write in a book were ladies look?
Not I - I'm shy - Good-bye.
A. Fulton, Belleek - The tenth commandant has said, Thou shalt
not covet thy neighbours wife, His ox thou shalt not slaughter; But
thank the Lord it is not a sin to covet his daughter.
J. A. Dickson, Enniskillen
- "The world without women would be a
perfect blank, Like a sheet of paper - not even ruled.
Molly Earls, Cavenbeg, Belleek
- "Men were deceivers ever" I want
you dear he said to her, and from his seat he quickly rose, The maiden
blushed, and thought that he at last was going to propose, I want you to
- he paused again, she said go on my darling Bert, I want you to - he
said once more, to sew a button on my shirt.
G. W. Farley, Tullyhommon, Omagh
- The great thing in life is not
to win the game, but to play a bad hand well.
J. Deacon, Belleek
- Answer me this question darling, Only this
and nothing more, I beseech you tell me truly, When we're married will
you snore.
Mr. Faulkner, Carlisle Road, Derry - To travel hopefully is a
better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
J. F. Kellett, Duncreggan Road, Derry
- "Ye hypocrites! are these
your pranks? To murder men and gi'e God thanks! For shame! gi'e o'er,
proceed no further, God won't accept your thanks for murther!"
E. J. Meeke, Spencer Road, Derry - "I expect to pass through this
world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can
show to my fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or
neglect it; for I shall not pass this way again."
W. G. G. Kellett, Trinity College, Dublin
- "When Methodist
preachers come down, A preaching that drinking in sinful, I'll wager the
rascals a crown, They always preach best with a skinful."
Mrs. Harron, Edenballymore, Derry
"It doesn't take much of a man
to be a Christian, but it does take all of him."
Mrs. C. Kellett, Duncreggan Road, Derry
- "It may be only a
handshake, It may be only a smile, But if it makes life happier, It is
surely worth the while."
Mrs. J. F. Kellett, Duncreggan Road, Derry
- "Man proposes, but
God disposes."
Miss Allen, Meadowbank Avenue, Derry - "God's in His Heaven -
all's right with the world."
Mr. Booth, Eden Terrace, Derry
- "The man who is wrapped up in
himself makes a very small parcel."
Miss Pollock, Duncreggan Road, Derry
- Don't worry - it may never
happen.
W. H. Stewart, Dacre Terrace, Derry - "Cast thy bread upon the
waters, and thou shalt receive it after many days."
R. Donaldson, Erne View, Belleek
Two's company, there were three,
The parlour lamp, the maid, and he; Two's company without a doubt,
That's why the parlour lamp went out.
E. Wallace, Roscor They say it is a sin to love, I never asked
them why; But if it is a sin to love, I sin until I die.
J. A. T. Fee, Beleek
No quality will get a man more friends than
a sincere admiration for the qualities of others.
S. Donaldson, Erne View, Belleek
- A little nonsense now and then
is relished by the best of men.
G. E. Carrenbeg, Belleek - If I should write you'd only laugh, so
I merely sign autograph.
E. W. Strong, Kilskerry, Co. Tyrone - "Her voice was ever soft,
gentle, and low - an excellent thing in a woman."
Mrs. Strong, Killskerry, Co. Tyrone
- "To-day is the to-morrow
you worried about yesterday, and all is well.
S. Dundas, Callagheen, Belleek
- He was teaching her arithmatic,
he said it was his mission, He pressed a kiss upon her lips and said,
now that's addition, As he added kiss by kiss in silent satisfaction,
She sweetly gave his kisses back and said, now that's subtraction; Then
he kissed her and she kissed him, with an explanation, They both
together smiled and said, that's multiplication; Then Dad appeared upon
the scene and made a quick decision, He kicked the teacher down the
stairs and said that's long division.
M. C. Strong, Kilskerry, Co. Tyrone
- They also serve, who only
stand and wait. (Milton)
Mrs. Jervis Trillick - When marred by the weight of care, and
thou art tempted to despair, Cast not thy burden sadly down, for yonder
glows the promised crown, Fight on! for great would by thy loss, no
crown is won without the cross.
Mabel Hetherington, Londonderry
- "This above all - to thine own
self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't not
then be false to any man. (Shakespeare)
(Rev.) F. J. Kellett, Dromedy House, Magheraveely
- "A good name
is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than
silver and gold."
M. Gilfillan, Barnett Street, Derry - "It matters not how strait
the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my
fate; I am the captain of my soul."
E. Roberts, Trinity Hall, Dublin
- "Come unto me all ye that are
weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest."
Crudus, T.C.D.
- "Varium et mutabile semper femina."
G. Boyd, Omagh
- "The truest end of life is to know the life that
never ends.
S. S. Wilson - If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty
seconds' worth of distance run; Yours is the earth and everything that's
in it, and what is more you'll be a man my son! (Kipling)
A. Corker, Omagh
- As I shall only go through this world once,
let me do all the good I can, as I shall not pass this way again.
H. Wilson, Omagh
- A man's true wealth is the good he does in
this world.
R. A. Clarke, Omagh - An honest man's the noblest work of God.
A. Jackson, Oaklands, Omagh - Mistakes of the past should be
turned into guide-posts of the future.
J. Gould - We have two ears, but one tongue - that we may hear
much and talk little.
Basque Proverb - God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped.
Mrs. V. Strong, Trillick - Are you feeling dull and seedy, "fed
up" w8ith your daily task? Is the world's big garden weedy? do you work
while others bask? Do you grouse at fate and fortune? life's best
blessing fail to see; Look beyond the storm faced present, say "the best
is yet to be."
Mrs. T. Crozier, Trillick - A little word in kindness spoken, A
motion or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a
friend sincere.
W. P. Strong - We know nothing of to-morrow, our business is to
be good and happy to-day. (S. Smith)
Violet Brien, Cool Bawn, Coleraine
- "Life is the mirror of king
and slave, It's just what you are and do; Then give to the world the
best you have, And the best will come back to you.
E. M. Strong, Kilskerry
- If you cannot have the best, make the
best of what you have.
Albert Brien, Coleraine - Learn to make the most of life, loose
no happy day, Time will never bring the back chances swept away; Leave
no tender word unspoken, love while life shall last, For the mill will
never grind, with the water that is past.
Mrs. G. H. Smith, Crawford's Square, Derry
- "If you ever feel
blue, find something to do For somebody else who is sadder than you.
Mrs. Mills, Ferryquay Street, Derry - Since the little wit that
fools have, was silenced, the foolery that wise men have makes a great
show.
Mrs. Bell, Ewing Street, Derry - Time and patience turn the
Mulberry leaves into silk.
M. J. McDonald, Park Avenue, Derry - The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind
to some of His other children. (Henry Drummond)
Mrs. E. R. Scott, Chapel Road, Derry
- A wise old Owl sat in an
oak, the more she saw the less she spoke, the less she spoke the more
she heard, why aren't we more like that old bird?
W. McFadden, High Street, Omagh
- If a man eats cheese, he need
not necessarily be a mouse.
N. Rutherford, Carlisle Villa, Omagh
- The world is full of
wonders, but nothing is more wonderful than man.
D. M. Henderson, Omagh
- A kindly word is sometimes better than a
costly gift. (Sage Sayings)
W. Johnston, Rosemount, Omagh - When you are up to the neck in
hot water, be like the kettle and sing.
N. Wilson - "Stop It" It'll be all the same, all the same, a
hundred years from now, No good a-worryin, no good a-florryin, no good
kicking up a row, For I shall not be here, and you won't be here when a
hundred years have gone; But somebody else will be in the cart, and the
world will still go on.
M. McGale, Omagh - Silence is a friend that will never betray.
(Confucius)
T. Johnston, J.P., Rosemount, Omagh - Always laugh when you can,
it is cheap medicine.
S. Johnston, Carlisle Villas, Omagh - Everywhere in life the true
question is not what we gain, but what we do. (Carlyle) The reward of
one duty is the power to fulfil another. (G. Eliot)
K. Johnston, Rosemount Omagh
- If prosperity limps, it had been
kicked on the shins by those who have more power in their legs than
their heads.
H. Livingston, Mountjoy Terrace, Omagh - "The most precious human
faculty is enthusiasm."
Flora Ritchie, Crumlin Road, Belfast
- "Forethough will save much
Afterthought"
S. Ritchie, Belfast - A merry heart maketh a cheerful
countenance.
E. Dawson, Crumlin Road, Belfast - "Better is a dinner of herbs
where love it, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
Marie Esler, Balmoral Belfast
- "All is not gold that glitters."
S. C. Ritchie, Crumlin Road, Belfast
- Men were deceivers ever.
(Shakespeare)
J. Ritchie, Crumlin Road, Belfast - There is nothing more foolish
than the laughter of fools.
E. Livingstone, Crumlin Road, Belfast
- "Laugh and the world
laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."
F. McClintock, Crumlin Road, Belfast
- "The evil that men do live
after them."
E. Benson, Eglantine Avenue, Belfast - Vessels large may venture
more, but little boats should stay near shore.
M. Collier, Clifton Drive, Belfast
- "And good may ever conquer
ill, Health walk were paid has trod; "As a man thinketh, so is he" Rise,
then, and think with God."
Mrs. O. S. Dick, Eastleigh Drive, Belfast
- The only way to have
a friend is to be one.
S. Dick, Eastleigh Drive, Belfast - A
man or woman without ambition is like a bird without wings.
K. McCrea, Aghalawn, Pettigo
- No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
J. McCallion, Moat Road, Ballymena
- The wind that beats the
mountain, blows more softly round the open wold; and gently comes the
world to those who are cast in gentle mould.
Mrs. G. McCrea, Aghalawn, Pettigo
- A friend is one who walks in,
when the rest of the world walks out.
A. McFarland, Omagh - Those who give to the Church, lend to the
Lord.
Jay, Omagh - None but the brave deserve the fair (Dryden)
P. Lougheed, Beragh - Make new friends but keep the old, those
are silver, these are gold.
J. Hutton, Beragh - The quality of mercy is not strained, it
droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven. It is twice blessed, it
blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (Shakespeare)
G. R. H. Quinton, Manorhamilton
- Fate never wounds more deep the
generous heart, That when a block-heads' insult points the dart.
(Johnson)
G. F. Dawson, Oakland Avenue, Belfast - Headlights attract
attention, but it's the unseen engine that does the work.
M. A. Dawson, Oakland Avenue, Belfast
- A little more kindness, a
little less creed, A little more giving, a little less greed, A little
more smile, a little less frown, A little less kicking a friend when
he's down.
Mrs. R. Dawson, Groomsport Road, Bangor - The regeneration of the
individual must precede the reformation of the community.
R. Dawson, Groomsport Road, Bangor
- The world is what it is
because Christians unhappily are what they are.
Dr. Dawson, Darlington, England
- Keep yourself simple, good,
sincere, grave, unaffected, a friend to justice, God fearing,
considerate, affectionate, and strenuous in duty.
Mrs. Boyd, Union Place, Dungannon
- Do not lay things too much to
heart, no one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
T. Woods, Toberhead
- Men never break down so long as they can
keep cheerful.
M. McCrea, Pettigo - Heaven is not reached by a single bound, but
we build the ladder by which we rise from the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies and we mount to its summit round by round.
(Rev.) G. W. Farley, Tullyhommon, Omagh
- If you are going to do
a good thing do it now; Is you are going to do a mean thing wait till
to-morrow.
W. Johnston, Tallykeeran, Beragh - Wherever you go, by hook or by
crook, look out for the girl with the Quotation book.
R. McFarlane, Coolesker, Beragh
- The hand that plants the acorn
shelters armies from the sun.
M. Barton, Coolesker, Beragh - Love is not love which alters when
it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
W. Young, Laragh, Beragh
- Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Ida McKnight, Lesbuoy, Beragh
- I'd rather be a Could Be, if I
could not be an Are; For a Could be is a May Be, with a chance of
touching par; I'd rather be a Has Been than a Might Have Been by far,
For a Might Have Been has never been, but a Has was once an Are.
R. D. Kidd, Beragh
- I have no wife to bother my life, No lover
to prove untrue; So I never sit down with a tear or a frown, But paddle
my own Canoe.
M. H. Black, The Central Cafe, Cavan - Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can, In all the ways you can, at all the times you
can, To all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Mrs. Mitchell, Brae Mount, Armagh
- "Meek Souls there are who
little dream, their daily task an Angels' theme, Or that the rod they
take so calm will prove in Heaven a Martyr's Palm."
F. Boyd, Union Place, Dungannon
- A man is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Mrs. Woods, Toberhead
- To be bright and cheerful often requires
an effort.
T. W. Woods, Toberhead - If courage is gone, then all is gone,
t'were better than thou never hadst been born.
R. Dawson, Bellshill, Castledawson
- Days for deeds are few my
brother, So to-day fulfil thy vow; If you mean to help another, Do not
dream it, do it now.
A. W. Dawson, Bellshill, Castledawson - 'Tis no use to worry and
grumble, However hard times they may be; I never look up but I stumble,
On someone far worse off than me.
J. Dawson, Bellshill, Castledawson
- Weave a little sunshine, as
you go along, When the day seems gloomy sing a cheery song; Tho' no
friends be near you to listen to you sing, The joyous notes will carry a
message on its wing.
S. Sloss, Ballymaquiggan - Laugh and the world laughs with you,
snore and you sleep alone.
M. Stewart, Dunamoney, Magherafelt - "Thine eyes shall see the
King in His beauty."
L. Browne, Dunamoney, Magherafelt - "He that diligently seeketh
good procureth favour."
Mrs. Love, Dunamoney - Go forth to meet the shadowy future
without fear, and with a manly heart.
J. Armstrong, Moylagh, Beragh
- God is our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.
H. Armstrong, Moylagh, Beragh - People who live in glass houses
should not throw stones.
M. M. Hagan, The Manse, Edenderry - I'll not willingly offend,
nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, and endure
what can't be mended.
C. McIvor, Crosh - A friend did come and I did trust him, I lost
my friend and lost his custom; But it did grieve me very sore, So I
decided to trust no more.
R. J. Marshall, Beragh - Love many, but trust few, always paddle
your own Canoe.
O. Barton, Beragh - Support Home Industry.
T. McCracken, Beragh - Wesley Taylor is a great lad.
W. R. Dixon, Beragh
- Keeping Smiling.
S. McAllister, Beragh - The Englishman said there are two ways of
doing everything, the wrong way and our way.
S. J. Smyth, Gortaclare
- It's bad to loose a friend, when your
heart is full of hope, And it's bad to loose a towel when your eyes are
full of soap.
J. R. Pollock, Omagh - May your path be bright, and your heart be
light, In the years that lie before you, May skies be blue, and friends
be true, And never a cloud come o'er you.
A. Petterson, Shaneragh, Dromore
- He giveth twice, who gives
quickly.
Mr. Livingston, Omagh - Subscription.
Mrs. Gilmour, Ballymaquiggan, P.O.
- There's just one corner of
the earth more dear than all besides, No gold could measure half its
worth, that place were love abides.
Mrs. J. Derby, Aughrim - Except the Lord the city keep, the
watchman watcheth but in vain.
Mrs. J. Young, Aughrim - No action, whether foul or fair, is ever
done but it leaves somewhere a record.
W. Burnett, Jun., Ballynagarve
- "If the righteous scarcely be
saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
Mrs. McKirgan, The Cottage, Ballynagarve
- "It is love like that
of Christ, that binds and holds together the faithful.
Mrs. A. Simpson, Killyfaddy
- "Let all who truly love God stand
firmly together and serve Him."
Mrs. Ferguson, Ballynagarve House
- "If you cannot have the best,
make the best of what you have."
Mrs. Burnside, Avonrath, Ballyronan
- There are no friends like
old friends, To help us with the load; That all must bear who journey
there, O'er life's uneven road.
Mrs. Burnside - To labour with zest, and to give of your best,
For the sweetness and joy of the giving; To help folk along with a hand
and a song, Why, there's the real sunshine of living.
J. A. Dawson, Bellshill
- Your life lies out before you, Like a
path of untrod snow; Be careful how you tread it, For every step will
show.
Mrs. Burnside, Avonrath, Ballyronan - A little more we, a little
less I, A little more laugh, a little less cry; A little more flowers on
the pathway of life, And fewer on the graves at the end of the strife.
B. Crawford, Ballymaquiggan - As you sit by my fire, yourself to
warm, Take heed that your tongue does your neighbour no harm.
Mr. Burnett, Ballymaguiggan
- Let the unfaithful pass out of
mind, and be forgotten for ever, as though they never existed.
Mr. Burnett, Ballymaguiggan
- The greatest privilege that any
person could possibly have is to know, and to faithfully serve Jehovah
God.
Mrs. McCready, Aughrim - Never trouble trouble, till trouble
troubles you, It will only double trouble, and trouble others too.
Mrs. W. Hume, Belfast - Build for yourself a strong box, place
all your troubles there, put in your strong box all sense of failure,
and each bitter cup that you quaff, lock all your heartaches within it,
then sit on the lid and laugh.
Mr. W. Clarke, Lakeview - God loveth you a sinner, do you love
Him in return.
Mrs. Hamilton, Lisnamorrow - Life is uncertain, death is sure;
sin is the wound, and Christ is the cure.
M. Pickering, Ballynagarve
- Keep your face always toward
sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.
T. McKirgan, The Cottage, Ballynagarve
- The way to do a great
deal is to keep on doing a little well.
S. Watterson, Drumenagh
- "Tis well to be witty and wise, 'Tis
well to be honest and true; But 'tis best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new."
K. Evans, Derrygarve - When the golden sun is setting, And your
mind from toil is free, When of others you are thinking, Will you
sometimes think of me.
J. McHugh, Gurteen, Longford - Have you had a kindness shown -
Pass it on.
H. B. Twamley, Seacliffe Road, Bangor - Learn to make the most of
life, lose no happy day, Time will never bring back chances swept away;
Leave no tender word unsaid, love while love shall last; The mill will
never grind with the water that is past.
M. A. Twamley, Seacliffe, Bangor
- God gave us life, not just to
buy and sell, and all that matters is to live it well.
E. Eagan, Castle Place, Ardglass
- It is easy to find happiness
in the world is we know where to look for it, for happiness dwells in
ourselves, it does not depend on things nor on people; it depends on
yourself alone, and God.
Mr. Gray, Gray's Hill, Bangor - Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind
thoughts are the roots, Kind works are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the
fruits.
F. Twamley, Seacliffe Road, Bangor - "Prayer" One stoops to hear
all prayer, and so He must have understanding past all human ken, And
sense of human and vast sympathies, unknown to e'en the best of human
men, For, as He fashioned us He knows our need, so none need scoff or
limit power of prayer, Unbound by creed, or ritual or place, we know he
listens to it everywhere.
E. Morrison, Irish Street, Downpatrick
- I'd laugh to-day, to-day
is brief, I would not wail for anything; I'd use to-day that cannot
last, be glad and sing.
S. Kennedy, Saul Street, Downpatrick - Do nothing you would not
like God to see, Say nothing you would not like God to hear, Go to no
place where you would not like God to find you, Write nothing you would
not like God to read.
A. Twamley, Seacliffe Road, Bangor - "Build a little fence of
trust around to-day, Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay;
Look not through the sheltering bars, upon the morrow, God will help
thee bear what comes of joy or sorrow.
B. Crawford, Ballymaquiggan
- Links of chains may rust and sever,
but links of friends last for ever.
L. Gregg, Derrygarve - You may talk of the sign of the weather,
And of coming days you may sing; But when a person sits down on a read
hot coal, It's a sign of an early spring.
H. Crawford, Ballynagarve
- Why art thou cast down, O my soul ..
? Hope thou in God.
D. Stewart, Golf Terrace - When speaking of a persons faults,
pray don't forget your own, Remember those with homes of glass, should
seldom throw a stone.
A. Cole, Caraloon - In the parlour there were three, The girl,
the parlour lamp and he; Two is company there's no doubt, That was why
the lamp went out.
Mrs. Leslie, Derrygarve - Not by might nor by power, but by my
spirit, saith the Lord.
Mrs. Stoker, Main Street, Longford - There's gladness in
remembrance, and pleasure when we find, That when from friends we're
absent, they keep us still in mind.
M. Makim, Longford - Earth has a spell for loving chants, Why
should we seek to break it; Let's scatter flowers instead of thorns, For
life is what you make it.
A. F. Harris, Longford - Where much is attempted something is
done.
Mrs. J. L. Lloyd, Main Street, Longford - An idler is a watch
that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as if it stands. (W.
Cowper)
M. Lloyd, Longford - Never carry two faces under one hat.
Mrs. G. Henry, Bohey, Dromahair - If your lips would keep from
slips, of five things pray beware, of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
and how, and when, and where.
R. S. Little, Longford - Love many, trust few, always paddle your
own Canoe.
J. Robinson, Brea Mount, Armagh - "When time who steals our years
away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay,
And half our joy renew.
A. Mitchell, Brea Mount, Armagh - "I would not rise upon the man
below me, Or pulling at the robes of men above, I would that friends, a
few dear friends may know me, And knowing - Love."
Miss Elliott, Thomas Street, Portadown
- There's your work and my
work, and work for all to do, But if you shirk your work, someone else
must do not only his own work, but your work too.
J. E. Stewart, Clabby
- O may Thy love inspire my tongue!
Salvation shall be all my song, And all my powers shall join to bless,
The Lord, my strength, and righteousness.
Mrs. G. McCordock, Scott Street. Armagh
- It doesn't take much
cleverness to think out spiteful things; It doesn't take much strategy
to speak the thought that stings; Anyone can frown and groan, when
life's a weary mile, So why not be a royal soul, and think kind thoughts
and smile.
L. McCordock, Armagh - Better to walk the real unseen, Than watch
the hour's event; Better the "well done!" at the last, Than the air with
shouting rent. (G. McDonald)
L. I. Todd, Shandon Park East, Bangor
- "Life is not pocket money
to be spent as you please; but capital entrusted to your care, that you
may trade with it for God, and others in the market of life.
R. H. Anderson, Alexandra Park, Holywood
- "To err is human, to
forgive is divine."
M. Keys, Longford - Men have many faults, poor women have but
two; There's nothing good they say or nothing right they do.
O. Gibson, Longford
- The tissues of the life to be, We weave
with colours all our own; And in the field of destiny, We reap as we
have sown. (Whittier)
"Bagman" Longford - Smile and give your face a chance.
(Rev.) J. A. Kells, Longford - Love is very patient, very kind;
love is never glad with others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,
always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful,
always patient, love never disappears. (St. Paul)
Wm. Megahey, Edgehill College, Belfast
- "Men, like steel, are
useless when they lose their temper."
Val. Silcock, Killylea
- "Live Christ in every act, you'll need
no badge to show the fact."
Wm. H. Fullerton, Edgehill College, Belfast
- What would be the
results if you were to arise and claim in faith all the power Christ is
able and willing to give to you? will you do this.
J. Keys, Edgehill College, Belfast
- "Lord, upon our blindness,
Thy pure radiance pour; For thy loving kindness make us love Thee more,
And when clouds are drifting dark across our sky, Then, the veil
uplifting, Father, be Thou nigh."
Harold Sloan, Edgehill College
- "Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening
ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart
was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee."
G. D. C. Dyson, Scotswood Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne
- We squander
health in search of wealth, Then hoard, and toil, and save, Then
squander wealth in search of health, And only find a grave.
D. Cronne, Groomsport Road, Bangor
- "Prayer" Prayer was
appointed to convey the blessing God designs to give; Long as they live
should Christians pray, for only while they pray, they live.
E. Hamilton, Manselton Park, Bangor
- "Kind hearts are more than
coronets." (Tennyson)
B. Hamilton, Manselton Park, Bangor - "Love never faileth."
Mrs. A. A. Bennett, Manselton Park, Bangor - Be not weary in well
doing, for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not.
G. R. Lyttle, Bangor
- "Ambassadors" Christ has no hands but our
hands to do his work to day; He has no feet but our feet to seek out
those who stray; He has no eyes but our eyes, to shine with God's great
love; He has no lips but our lips to lift men's thoughts above.
A. W. Todd, Shandon Park East, Bangor
- "Always believe the best
until the worse is proved.
Mrs. L. M. Todd, Shandon Park East, Bangor
- "Give to the world
the best you have, and the best will come back to you."
Mrs. H. Green, Bangor
- Let nothing disturb thee, nothing
affright thee, all things are changing, God never changeth.
Mrs. R. J. Aiken, Groomsport Road, Bangor
- "A smile is like a
sunny beam, e'en darkest corners catch its gleam.
R. A. C., Ballymena
- The rarer action is in virtue, than in
vengeance. (The Tempest)
Anon, Belfast - Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead
selves to higher things.
"Eveline," Dublin - 'Tis that look that melted Peter, 'tis that
face that Stephen saw; 'Tis the heart that wept with Mary can alone from
idols draw, Draw, and win, and fill completely, till the cup o'erflow
the brim; What have I to do with idols? I have companied with HIM.
T. Grant, McMaster's Hotel, Magherafelt - O wad some power the
giftie gi'e us, To see ourselves as others see us.
C. C. B., Ballywalter
- The darkest shadows of life are those
which a man makes when he stands in his own light.
K. P. - This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must
follow as the night the day; thou canst not then be false to any man.
K. Powell, McMaster's Hotel, Magherafelt The light that shines
the farthest, shines the brightest nearest home.
Mrs. W. Gamble, Beechvale, Magherafelt
- "Be like Jesus, this my
song; in the home and in the throng; Be like Jesus all day long.
Mrs. P. Tucker, Killyfaddy, Magherafelt
- "Oh, for a closer walk
with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road,
That leads me to the lamb."
Mrs. McFarlane, Golf Terrace, Magherafelt
- "Be noble, and the
nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in
majesty to meet thine own."
Mrs. Orr, Killyfaddy, Magherafelt
- "The best is yet to be, the
last of life for which the first was made." (Browning)
D. J. McCracken, Magherafelt
- "The truth shall make you free."
(Jesus Christ)
(Mrs.) G. H. Sayers, Magherafelt - It matters not how strait the
gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my
fate, I am the captain of my soul. (W. E. Henley)
M. Stewart, The Island, Curran
- Why should we worry about the
years our feet have not yet trod. Who labours with courage, and trusts,
fears not, has fellowship with God.
Ellen Hammond, Hillhead, Curran
- All things work together for
good to them that love the Lord.
W. J. Pickering, New Row, Castledawson
- The happiness of your
life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Nora Fleming, Broad Street, Magherafelt
- "Truth crushed to earth
shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But error wounded
writhes in pain, And dies among her worshippers."
C. McCready, Derganagh
- "Behold we know not anything, and yet I
trust that good shall fall at last far off; at last to all, and every
winter change to spring."
W. J. Graham, Ballinacross - "God made man and rested, but since
God made woman, neither God or man has rested.
N. Thompson, Maghera
- A contented mind is a blessing kind, And a
merry heart is a pure well lined; So care what I do the world goes by,
For it's better far to laugh than cry.
J. Jones, Maghera - Let them all come.
M. Henderson, Knockloughrim - Love many, trust few, always paddle
your own Canoe.
P. P. McClean, Knockloughrim - Method is good in all things.
Order governs the world. The devil is the author of confusion.
G. Graham, Maghera
- Some men smile in the evening, some men
smile at dawn; But the man worth while is the man who can smile, When
his two front teeth are gone.
T. Jamison, Caraloon House - "Though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me; thy rod and
thy staff comfort me." (David)
(Mrs.) T. Jamison, Caraloon House
- "Blessed are they that do his
commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city." (St. John the Divine)
J. McFarlane, Randalstown - "More things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of." (Tennyson "Morte d' Arthur)
R. John C. McFarlane, Magherafelt
- "Know then thyself, presume
not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man." (Pope)
M. McFarlane, Golf Terrace, Magherafelt
- "Breathes there the man
with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my
native land." (Scott)
W. McFarlane, Lake View Terrace, Magherafelt
- "The evil that men
do lives after them; the good is oft' interred with their bones."
(Shakespeare)
W. Oliphant, The Bower, Magherafelt - "To err is human, to
forgive is divine."
V. McFarlane, Golf Terrace, Magherafelt
- "Our birth is but a
sleep and a forgetting, the soul that rises with us, our life's star,
hath had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar; in trailing clouds
of glory do we come from God, who is our home." (Wordworth)
W. J. Bradley, Lemnaroy, Castledawson
- Lives of great men oft'
remind us, We can make our lives sublime; And departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sand of time.
L. J. Arrell, Rocktown, Castledawson
- Better late than never is
a comforting refrain, except when too late at the station to catch a
train.
J. Fullerton, Drumlamph, Castledawson - A woman's maiden aim is
to change her maiden name.
A. E. Scott, Maghera - It is better to be down at heel, than down
at heart.
A. Moore, Tobermore - Hinges of true friendship never grow rusty.
Dr. Wm. Johnston, Maghera - Keep your face towards the sunshine,
and the shadows will fall behind you.
D. Hyndman, Maghera - I hate to be a kicker, I always long for
peace; But the wheel that does the squeaking, Is the one that gets the
grease.
B. Love - It's really wonderful what laughing can do, It acts
like a tonic on folk that feel blue; It's a magnet that draws other
people to you; Just laugh, and you'll see this is quite true.
Jeanie Jamison, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "The Lord loveth a
cheerful giver."
J. Gamble, "Beechvale, Magherafelt - "The best book to read is
the Bible; If you read it every day, It will help you on your way; Oh!
the best book to read is the Bible."
Margaret A. Bell, "Lake Lodge" Ballyronan
- "No race is over till
the last yard's run; No game is ever lost until it's won; A fire is
never dead while the ashes are still red, Nor the sunset in the sky
until the day is done."
Elizabeth Jamison, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- A heavy heart bears
not a nimble tongue.
Thomas Jamison, Caraloon, Magherafelt - Don't be "consistent,"
but be simply true.
W. R. Jamison, Caraloon - "To get my name into this book, Out of
my pocket one shilling it took."
Ellie Arrell, Rocktown, Castledawson
The average husband has but
two faults - everything he says, and everything he does.
Geo. McKnight, Bridge Street, Castledawson
- What feeds the body
starves the soul.
R. J. Morton, Maghera - If at first you don't succeed, try, try
again.
J. Speers, Knockloughrim - Great is the sword and mighty is the
pen, But greater far the labouring plowman's blade, For on its oxen and
its husband men, An Empires strength is laid.
(Rev.) M. O'Neill, Ex-P.P. Termoneeny, Maghera
- "Be sober and
Watch."
"The Master" Rocktown - "Play the game"
T. Bardley, Bellaghy - Though your voice be as sweet as the songs
of the birds, Remember that actions speak louder than words.
B. McCabe, Knockloughrim
- Man's love for woman is her gold.
J. Mullen, Knockloughrim
- It is carelessness, more than any
other thing that wreckes marriage, and gives the "other woman" her
chance.
S. McCready, Knockloughrim - Do not let past failures deter you
from future endeavours.
C. Glenn, Ashbank, Magherafelt - Our greatest glory is not in
never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
W. Gaston, The Manse, Castledawson
- "On Christ the solid rock I
stand, all other ground is sinking sand."
M. Jamison, Caraloon
- "Better late than never is a
comforting refrain, Except when you reach the station too late to
catch a train." Difficulties are meant to rouse, not to discourage.
D. Streahorn, Caraloon - "He that hath a friend must show
himself friendly, but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a
brother."
O. Streahorn, Caraloon, Magherafelt - "Women may
cause a great deal of trouble in life, but it's a woman that makes
life worth all the trouble."
M. Streahorn, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "Good-bye dear
shilling, thy face looks very pale, But you must swell the coffers
of the Magherafelt sale."
M. Brown, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "Not by your words alone,
But by your actions show, How much from Him you have received; How
much to Him you owe."
Wm. J. Brown, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "There is an arm that
never tires, When human strength gives way; There is a love that
never fails, When earthly loves decay."
Thomas Brown, Tillinkesey
- What stronger breastplate than a
heart untainted.
Alfy Cole, Caraloon, Magherafelt - Heat not your furnace for
your enemy so hot that it will singe yourself.
Sadie Jamison, Caraloon
- "When you cannot stand your Vicar,
Never advertise your view; Ask the Lord to make him quicker, And
(perhaps) to quicken you."
N. Swenarton, Lisnamorrow House, Magherafelt
- I recommend
you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of
themselves.
(Mrs.) W. R. Swenarton, Caraloon - Life is not so short but
there is always time enough for courtesy.
Mr. McConnell, Londonderry
- Subscription
"Scotch and Proud of it." - Some ha's meat and canna eat, And
some can eat but ha'e nae meat; But we ha'e meat and we can eat, So
let the Lord be thankit.
G. Elliott, Ardgreenan Drive, Belfast
- Keep smiling, and
while you smile make life worth while.
B. A. Creswell, Beechwood, Derry
- Try weighing yourself in
the same balance in which you weigh your neighbours.
J. A. Spence, Beechwood Avenue, Derry
- Subscription
E. Noble, Dromore, Drumskinney - "Never say die."
T. W. Taylor, McMaster's Hotel, Magherafelt - Everything else
in our lives is trustworthy, every other good is visionary, but the
acts of love, which no man knows about, they never fail.
R. J. Speer, Manoo, Kesh
- Subscription
N. N. - Bang goes another Bob.
T. C. Chittick, Ballymena
- "There's an infinite in every
man, which, with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the
finile."
H. Garvin, Londonderry - Subscription
L. Loane, Kesh P.O.
- The fellow that watches the clock
needen't worry about his future - he has none.
S. Stewart, Regent Street, Newtownards
- The inner side of
every cloud, Is bright and shining; I therefore turn my clouds
about, And always wear them inside out, To show the lining.
Betty Potts, Bellshill
- I go to seek on many roads, What is
to be. True heart and strong, with love so light, Will they not bear
me in the fight, To order, shun, or wield, or mould, My destiny?
Jean Baxter, "Thistleton," Bellshill - "He who joy would win,
must share it; happiness was born a twin."
Wm. Baird, Junr., Bellshill
- "No one is useless in this
world who brightens the burdens of others."
N. Forrest, Bellshill
- "A loving smile is like a sunbeam.
Shed such rays when you can."
Pat. Potts, Bellshill - Taste life's glad moments while the
wasting taper glows; Pluck, ere it withers, the quickly fading rose.
Maisie Grahame, Bellshill - A car on the road is worth two in
the ditch.
Joan B. Brown, Mossend - Four things come not back: the
spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, the neglected opportunity.
Gee Gee, Bellshill - A stout heart may be ruined in fortune,
but not in spirit.
Lucy McAleese, Castledawson - Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.
Sarah Wallace, Castledawson
- Behold God is my Salvation, I
will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and
my song. He also is become my Salvation. Isaiah 12, 2.
"Beltur - Bits" 9 The Lawn
- "These little things are sent to
try us" As the big prisoner said to the small judge. What
can't be cured should be insured. It is better to sit than to
stand, better to lie that to sit, Better to sleep than to lie,
better to die than to sleep. We have all to eat dirt
sometimes, but we needn't be like the birds and make a song about
it.
Mrs. Griffith, Tobermore - A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever.
A. Rankin, Golf Terrace, Magherafelt - A good divine follows
his own instruction.
Mary McClure, Magherafelt - Love is one thing, father's stick
is another thing; Beware of one for fear of the other.
T. W. Taylor, McMaster's Hotel, Magherafelt
- A fault which
humbles a man, is of more value to him than a good action which
puffs him up with pride.
Ellie McAleese, Castledawson - Nature gives to every time and
season some beauties of its own.
E. Loughrey, Castledawson - "God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.! John iii. 16.
J. Haddock, Waringstown, Co. Down
- "To love is to love, and
to love is to give."
E. Anderson, Castledawson - To lose your wealth is much, to
lose your health is more, To lose your soul is such a loss, that no
man can restore.
N. Mann, Hillhead, Castledawson - Appearance are deceiving,
so we're told, And all that glitters is not gold.
Alicia Evans, Castledawson - Love has a hem to its garment,
That reaches down to the dust; It descends to the stains of the
streets and lanes, And because it can, it must.
J. Pickering, Castledawson
- My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
N. S. Russell, Bollymacombs, Bellaghy
- Here's to the garden
gate, here's to the rose that's in it; Here's to the young man who
wants to make love, And doesn't know how to begin it.
L. E. Hammond, Castledawson
- Farewell little shilling, why
do you look so pale, And you are helping to fill the coffers of a
Methodist Sale.
J. McGowan, Castledawson - Blessed are they who are pleasant
to live with.
A, Boden, Castledawson - Little is much, if God is in it.
Ethel Hueston, "The Cottage" Castledawson - Absolutely
tender, absolutely true; understanding all things, understanding
you, Infinite loving, exquisitely near, This is God our Father, what
have we to fear.
Mrs. S. Laughrey, Castledawson - O Jerusalem, Jurusalem,
which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto
thee. How often would I have gathered thy children together,
as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not.
Mr. Boden, Castledawson - God loveth a cheerful giver.
M. E. R.
- We have careful thought for the stranger, And
smiles for the coming guest; But for our own the bitter tone, Though
we love our own the best.
Wm. Boden, (Jnr.,) Castledawson - There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
David Boden, Castledawson - All the great men are dead and
I'm not feeling well myself.
M. E. D., Castledawson - I will never leave Thee nor forsake
Thee.
Kathleen J. McVitty, Castledawson - If your luck is not what
it should be, out "p" before it.
F. McCombe, Castledawson
- The way to receiving is giving,
How little soever it be. And love is the keynote of living, The love
that makes everyone free.
Geraldie Clark, Gravesend, Castledawson
- True friendship
consists not in the multitude of our friends but in their worth and
choice.
Alicia Evans, Millview, Castledawson - Beauty without grace
is the hook without the bait. Beauty without expression tires.
Mrs. Clarke, Largantogher, Maghera - Efforts are always
successes. It is a greater thing to try without succeeding than to
succeed without trying.
Margaret White, Paisley - Don't worry - It may not happen.
Jean Semple, Curran - But when on life we're tempest driven,
A conscience but a canker, A correspondence fixed wi' Heaven, Is
sure a noble anchor. (Burns)
Mae E. Brown, Moneymore - "Come what come may, Time and hour
runs through the roughest day." (Shakespeare)
Thos. White, Paisley
- Pleasures are like poppies spread, You
seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snowfalls in the
river, One moment white, then melts for ever. (Burns)
Florence Dunne, Moneymore
- Moderation is the silken string
running through the pearl chain of all virtues. (Bishop Hall)
Peggy Caughey, Co. Down
- If you are going to do a good
thing, do it now; if you are going to do a mean thing, wait until
tomorrow.
M. J. Brown, Castledawson - I am poor and needy yet, the Lord
thinketh upon me.
J. Evans - "Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee
away with His stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee."
M. Brimleg, Castledawson - Good actions crown themselves with
lasting joys, who well deserves, needs not another praise.
W. H. Jackson, Portadown
- I learn as the years toll onward,
and I leave the past behind; That much I had counted sorrow, but
proves that my Lord was kind; That many a flower I longed for had a
hidden thorn of pain, And many a rocky by-path led to fields of
golded grain.
Chris. Calvert, Breagh, Portadown - Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can, In all the ways you can, in all the places
you can, At all the times you can, to all the people you can, As
long as ever you can. (John Wesley's Rule).
A. Clements, Castle Street, Portadown
- A bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush; A hair in the hand is worth two in the brush.
May Jackson, Derrycaw House, Portadown - "To err is human, to
forgive Divine."
Amy Twinem, Moyraverty House, Lurgan - Spin carefully; spin
prayerfully, leaving the thread with God.
E. Calvert, Bluestone
- Whene'er a noble deed is wrought;
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise, To
higher levels rise.
R. Hewitt, Bluestone - A wise old owl lived in an oak, The
more he heard the less he spoke, The less he spoke the more he
heard, Why aren't we all more like that bird.
(Rev.) S. T. Nelson, Lurgan
- "Keep in the middle of the road
and go straight on.
Fred Twinem, Moyraverty House, Lurgan - "Measure thy life by loss instead of gain; Not by the wine drunk,
but the wine poured forth; For love's strength standeth in love's
sacrifice, And whoso suffers most hath most to give. (E. H. King)
Jean Anderson, 6 Thornhill Gardens, Sunderland - He put his
penny on the plate, And meekly raised his eyes; Thankful he'd paid
his weekly rent, For mansions in the skies"
(Mrs.) A. S. Shiels, Knocknakielt, Maghera
- "In union lies
strength."
W. G. Shiels, Knocknakielt, Maghera - For when the one great
scorer comes, To write against your name, He writes not what you won
or lost, But how you played the game.
W. Graham Shiels, Knocknakielt, Maghera
- Never trouble
trouble, till trouble troubles you, For you only double trouble, and
trouble others too.
Margt. Edney, Gloucester Road, London - When one begins to
turn in bed, it's time to turn out.
Miss Greenfield, Gidea Park, Essex
- Song. Tell me where is
fancy bred, In the heart or in the head? Let us all ring fancy's
knell; I'll begin it - Ding-dong dell. (Wm. Shakespeare)
(Mrs.) J. R. Kennedy, Thornhill Gardens, Sunderland
- Each in
his separate star, Painting the thing as he knows it, For the God of
things as they are."
Isabel McDonald, Dalkeith Road, Dundee
- "All we have willed,
or hoped, or dreamed of good shall exist; not its semblance but
itself.
J. R. Kennedy, Thornhill Gardens, Sunderland - All is not
gold that glitters, A stitch in time saves nine.
Mrs. Bradley, Ballyronan
- One of the most important things
in life is, Not where we stand but in what direction we are going.
J. McNicholl, Annaghmore, Castledawson - For writing these
few lines I had to pay a shilling, To help to fill a purse that
needs a bit of filling.
G. Speer, Ballyronan - Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war.
S. Henry, Ballyronan - "Little things on little wings bear
little souls to heaven."
(Miss) Sheppard, Ballyronan - Beautiful days make beautiful
years, and beautiful years make a beautiful life at its close.
Mr. Stanton, Ballyronan - I hold it truth with him who sings,
To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on
stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things.
F. M. Coulter, North Parade, Belfast
- If you want a bed of
roses, plant your own rose bushes.
K. Coulter, North Parade, Belfast
- Believe not all you hear;
tell not all you believe.
H. Loane, 50 Rugby Road - When choosing a wife or a car close
your eyes and commend yourself to God.
M. Loane, 50 Rugby Road
- There is no riches above a sound
body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. Ecclesiasticus.
E. Graf, N. Parade
- "Efforts Are Always Successes." It is a
greater thing to try without succeeding than to succeed without
trying.
C. Graf, N. Parade - True happiness consists not in a
multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
Mrs. Barr, Ravenhill Road, Belfast
- "To err is human; to
forgive, Divine."
(Mrs.) J. Boone, Tulllygare, Cookstown
- All have not gold to
give, But all may yet be kind; Where'er you are, where'er you live,
Give love to all mankind.
M. E. Paul, Carrickokielt, Maghera
- Look up, not down; Look
forward and not back; Look out and not in - Lend a hand.
M. J. Hemus, Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland
- Don't waste
precious time looking for an opportunity: make one.
Jean K. Hemus, Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland
- Charity is the
mother of good deeds.
S. J. Dinsmore, Beresford Park, Sunderland
- I shall pass
through this world once, therefore any good thing that I may do, or
any kindness I may show, let me do it now, as I shall not pass this
way again. (Carlyle)
J. A. Smyth, Ampertaine, Upperlands - One swallow never made
a summer; But one cat can make a spring. It is hard to live a
"Rolls Royce" life on a "Ford" income.
(Miss) Gwen Allan, Northolt Road, Harrow
- Make the best of
everything; think the best of everybody; hope the best for yourself.
(G. Stephenson)
Lucy Senior, Walker Street, Dewsbury - The conduct of our
lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.
E. Shiels, Marlborough Hill, Harrow
- Nuts are given to us,
but we must crack them ourselves.
F. M. Anderson, Malone Road, Belfast
- Jesus, confirm my
heart's desire, To work, and speak, and think for Thee; Still let me
guard the holy fire, And still stir up Thy gift in me (Wesley)
Pat Coulter, Belfast - Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which
all men have some.
Mrs. Templeton, Cliftonville, Belfast - "It's hardly in a
body's power, To keep at times from being sour."
Mrs. Williams, Belfast
- To laugh your way through troublous
times, Is much the wisest thing to do; For when you make the best of
things, They cannot get the best of you.
W. Culbert, N. Parade, Belfast
- Keep up your heart for the
times will mend.
J. Sheldon, N. Parade, Belfast - No. one really fails who
does his best.
E. McIntyre - Pretty words are like the wind; True friends
are hard to find.
M. McIntyre - Character is something before and beyond good
looks.
Molly McIntyre - Whatever is - is best.
E. Shaw, Earlswood Road, Belfast
- The kiss of the sun for
pardon, The song of the birds for mirth; One is nearer God's heart
in a garden, Than anywhere else on earth.
E. C. Lyons, Ormeau Road, Belfast
- When going up the hill of
prosperity, may you never meet a friend.
T. Sutcliffe, Nicholson & Morrow, Belfast
- O, Jean, where
art thou?
J. Hanna, Hollywood Road, Belfast - He who blackens others
does not whiten himself.
M. E. McKinney, Belfast - They're all queer but me and thee,
and even thee's a wee bit queer.
H. Stevenson, Knockbreda Park, Belfast
- There is so much bad
in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it ill
behoves any of us, To find fault with the rest of us. (R. L.
Stevenson)
Thomas R. McKim, North Parade, Belfast - "A faithful friend
is the medicine of life."
A. M. Anderson, Malone Road, Belfast
- One Song leads to
another, One friend to another friend; So I'll travel along with a
friend and a song To the end. (W. W. Gibson)
M. Anderson, Malone Road, Belfast
- Keep your face towards
the sun, and the shadows will fall behind you.
H. Anderson, Malone Road, Belfast
- The blue of Heaven is
larger than the cloud. (Browning)
O. M. Anderson, Mount Charles, Belfast
- The stones you throw
at others, you will find in your pillow at night.
S. J. Johnston (Rev.), Camden Street, Belfast
- I sometimes
hold it half a sin, To put in words the grief I feel; For words
like, nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within.
(Tennyson)
G. S. McLeer, Edgehill College - To thine own self be true,
and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then by
false to any man.
M. F, Dick, Cloughfin, Islandmagee - Measure thy life by loss
and not by gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured
forth, For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice, And whoso
suffereth most hath most to give.
M. E. Bell, "Lake Lodge" Ballyronan
- A peace above all
earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
M. J. McKinney, Lake View, Dromore
- I know not where His
islands lift, Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot
drift, Beyond God's love and care.
Unknown Traveller, Belfast
- Life is an inn where travellers
stay, Some only breakfast and go away, Others stop to dinner and are
full fed, The oldest only sup and go to bed. Long is his life who
lingers out the day; He who goes soonest has the least to pay.
L. Halliday, Belmont Avenue - I know there are no errors, In
the great eternal plan, And all things work together, For the final
good of man; And I know as my soul speeds onward, In its grand
eternal quest, I shall say as I look earthwards, Whatever is - is
best.
S. S. Stanley, Belmont Church Road, Belfast - If a bundle of
thorns be your lot, there's no need to sit on it.
W. Robinson, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast
- "All I could
never be, All men ignored in me; That was I worth to God, Whose
might the pitcher formed." (Browning)
S. Robinson, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast
- What win I, if
I gain the thing I seek, A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy;
Who gains a minute's mirth to wait a week, Or sells eternity to get
a toy?
I. McIlwrath, Cyprus Avenue, Belfast - It's the song ye sing
and the smile ye wear, That's a-makin' the sun shine everywhere.
Mabel Pepper, Clonlee Drive, Belfast - A true scholar never
ceases to learn. (Hogarth)
M. K. Culbert, Belmont Avenue, Belfast
- Don't look for the
flaws as you pass through life, And even if you find them, It is
good and kind to be somewhat blind, And look for the virtue behind
them.
E. R. McAlonan, Irwin Avenue, Belfast - Question asked by
peasant in North of Scotland: Will your Majesty meet me in Heaven?
Answered by Queen Victoria: By the all availing Blood of the Lamb I
will meet you there.
S. Dunn, Ridgeway Street, Belfast - One to-day is worth two
to-morrows.
Anon - "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He
shall direct thy paths."
K. Johnston, Cyprus Park, Belfast
- Honour and shame from no
condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
W. D. McKinney, Lake View, Dromore - The kettle gets it hot,
but sings all the while.
Violet A. McKinney, Holland Crescent, Belfast
- "When the one
great Scorer comes, To write against your name, He'll ask not if you
won or lost, But how you played the game."
J. Wesley and Alice B. McKinney, N. Circular Road, Dublin
-
"Finally, my brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these
things."
C. L. Wilson, Maghera - They are not long, the weeping and
the laughter. Love, desire and hate; I think they have no position
in us after we pass the gate.
G. H. Smyth, Maghera - Without virtue wealth avails not, and
virtue without wealth exerts less power, and less diffuses good.
O. M. Wilson, Maghera - This above all to thine own self be
true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man.
W. J. Pickering, Castledawson - Pretty women without religion
are like flowers without perfume.
Const. McVitty, Castledawson
- A lie has no legs.
Mrs. Patterson, Castledawson - You can tell a Castledawson
woman anywhere - but you can't tell her much.
Jim Crawford, Castledawson
- Remember me when in the tub,
Remember me at every rub, And when the suds are boiling hot, Lather
away and forget-me-not.
Bob Garvin, Castledawson - They also serve who only stand and
wait.
M. McNally, Castledawson - How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear.
(Mrs.) W. Boyd, Castledawson - Meeting is a pleasure, parting
is a pain; God be with you till we meet again.
Joe Vance, Castledawson
- For writing these few lines I had
to pay a shilling, To help to fill a purse that needs a bit of
filling.
Const. S. Atchison, Castledawson - "The choice of books, like
that of friends, is a serious duty. We are as responsible for what
we read as for what we say." (Lord Avebury)
M. E. Dawson, Castledawson
- Behold! God is my Salvation, I
will trust and not be afraid.
Const. Biggerstaff, Castledawson
- I wish you health, I wish
you wealth, I wish you golden store, I wish you heaven when you die;
What can I wish you more.
J. Monaghan, Castledawson - 'Tis women like you, make men
like me, like women like you.
R. Kiralker, The Mount, Belfast
- No idlest word thou
speakest but is a seed cast into time, and goes through all
eternity.
R. Bell, "Lakelodge" Ballyronan - He that is down need fear
no fall, He that is low no pride, He that is humble ever shall, Have
God to be his guide.
J. McCrea, Randalstown - Don't look for the flaws as you pass
through life, And even if you find them, It is good and kind to be
somewhat blind, And look for the virtue behind them.
Mrs. Ferguson, Ballyronan
- When you've to do with wrong and
right, Then never think the question slight; For what is wrong
you're like to do, If once you think it small; And if what's right
seems small to you, It won't be done at all.
Susan Bradley, Ballyronan
- Life is merely froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage
in your own.
Mrs. Blair, Ballyronan - When all is done and said, in the
end thus shall you find; He most of all doth bathe in bliss that
hath a quiet mind.
A. McKay, Ballyronan - But far o'er the deep there are
billows, That never shall break on the beach; And I have heard songs
in the silence, That never shall float into speech; And I have had
dreams in the valley, Too lofty for language to reach.
M. McKay
- Do you ask me the place of the valley, Ye hearts
that are harrowed by care, I lieth afar between mountains, And God
and His angles (angels) are there; One is the dark mountain of
sorrow, And one is the bright mountain of prayer.
Mrs. Bradley, Belfast
- Spin carefully; spin prayerfully,
leaving the thread with God.
Mrs. Rice, Ballyronan - When a good idea comes into your mind
do not give it a seat, put it to work.
V. K. Johnston, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- For though from out
our bourne of time and place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to
see my pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar.
M. Moore, Belfast Infirmary
- Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.
V. M. Hill, Belfast Infirmary
- Select your thoughts as you
would your friends, for their truth and purity. (Shakespeare)
G. Glenn, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- No one is useless in this
world who lightens the burden of it for another. (Chas. Dickens)
J. McKeeman, Lisburn Road, Belfast - "When the one great
Scorer comes, To write against your name, He'll ask not if you won
or lost, But how you played the game."
J. W. McCrudden, Lisburn Road, Belfast
- Through labour to
rest - through combat to victory. (Kembis)
"E. C.," Garvagh
- Live and learn.
S. Love, Dunamoney, Magherafelt - All that glitters is not
gold.
R. A. M. Wilson, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - A soft answer
turns away wrath.
W. Farson, Dunamoney, Magherafelt - Union is strength.
Mrs. Hilliard, Magherafelt - Hold thy faith steady.
Mrs. Bell, Magherafelt
- A close mouth shows a wise head.
S. B. Magherafelt - Live and let live.
J. McMaster, Tullylinkesay, Magherafelt - A stitch in time
saves nine.
T. H. Bell, Lake Lodge, Ballyronan - Wise men patience never
want, good men pity cannot hide; Feeble spirits only vaunt of
revenge; the poorest, pride; He alone forgives who can, bears the
true soul of a man.
W. J. Bell, Ballyronan - "The best of all is - God is with
us."
Mrs. Bell, Lake Lodge, Ballyronan - I am glad to think I am
not bound to make the wrong go right, but only to discover and to
do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
F. J. McLernon, Magherafelt
- "A rolling sausage gathers no
gravy."
W. McLernon, Magherafelt - "Charity suffereth long and is" -
skinned.
J. McLernon, Magherafelt - The door to success is labelled
"push."
M. Reynolds - Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be
born, If not born in thee, thy soul is all forlorn.
M. E. Gamble, Magherafelt
- It's better to have loved and
lost, Than never to have loved at all.
F. E. Stewart - Life - like a snowflake on yonder river, Now
its seen, then gone forever.
J. W. Moore - Good people came and I did trust 'em, I lost
their money and their custom, To lose them both did grieve me sore,
So I have decided to trust no more.
Wm. McConnell, Magherafelt
- Most of the troubles of life are
caused by people standing in their own shadow.
J. Gilmour, Magherafelt
- Would some power the giftie gi'e
us, To see ourselves as other people see us, It would from many a
blunder free us, That gait and dress would gi'e us.
Mrs. Ferguson, Tullylinkesay, Magherafelt
In spite of what
the pulpit preaches, In spite of what the Scripture teaches, This
world (indeed I've thought so long) Is ruled, methinks, extremely
wrong.
J. Kennedy, Lecka, Magherafelt - "Ye must be born again."
John iii. 7.
W. McIvor, Magherafelt - "He that heareth My word and
believeth on Him that sent Me hath everlasting life."
R. Brown, Dunamoney, Magherafelt
- From east to west home is
best.
Mrs. Leeke, Magherafelt - Don't worry, it may never happen.
M. H. McL. - "It is God that justifieth."
Mary Stewart, Dunamoney, Magherafelt
- You may sail the seas
of life without Christ, but what about the landing?
A. Streahorn, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "For God so loved the
world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
D. Streahorn, Caraloon, Magherafelt
- "The wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord."
I. Stewart, Lecka Cottage, Magherafelt - "The Lord is my
light and my salvation."
M. Kinnear, Clogher - A word fitly spoken is like apples of
gold in pictures of silver.
W. Streahorn, Caraloon - "For what is a man profited if he
shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul."
J. Stewart, Dunamoney
- "We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God."
W. Brown, Dunamoney
- "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son,
cleanseth us from all sin."
M. Stewart, Buxton - "Suffer the little children to come unto
me."
L. Browne, Dunamoney - "The path of the just is as the
shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."
S. Anderson, Dunamoney - "We love Him because He first loved
us."
L. Dowdall, Dunamoney - What can I give Him, poor as I am? If
I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; If I were a wise girl, I
would do my part; Yet, what can I give Him? Give my heart.
S. D. Brown, Magherafelt
- Give up looking to others, trust
to God's blessing on your own exertions."
M. McCaw, Belfast Infirmary
- Fret not - He loves thee, faint
not - He holds thee, Fear not - He keeps thee.
E. M. Johnstone, Botanic Avenue, Belfast
- Next month will be
your fatal month, transact no business then keep clear of ladders,
spilling salt, beware of red haired women. I've never longed
to avail, Except in flight of fancy free, Or just that flight to
seal my fate, If only you would fly with me.
(Mrs.) R. J. Hueston
- If you love me as I love you, nothing
but death can part us two.
Mrs. Barton, Castledawson - You will never pass through this
world again, therefore do all the good you can.
Ruby Wallace, Belfast
- Remember well and bear in mind, A
trusty friend is hard to find, When you have found one just and
true, Never exchange the old for the new.
Mrs. Biggerstaff, Castledawson
- Love all, trust few, do no
harm.
G. Cole, Oldpark Road, Belfast - "There is a destiny that
shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may."
T. Hutchinson, Ballygurk, Moneymore
- The mills of God grind
slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
Miss Boyd, Moneymore
- Do not let the burden of to-morrow
break the back of to-day.
A. Maynes, Belfast - "One good turn deserves another."
J. Weir, Derrygenard, Cookstown - In the parlour there were
three, Girl, the parlous lamp, and he; Two is company, no doubt,
That is why the lamp went out.
W. Weir, Derrygenard, Cookstown
- "A stitch in time, they
say, saves nine, It does, and sometimes more. A dose in time is just
as fine, And sometimes saves a score.
J. Ekin, Desertlyn, Moneymore
- "A good name is better than
great riches."
J. Hutchinson, Ballygurk, Moneymore - As old "Mrs." Terrier
said to her pup, In all life's adversities keep your tail up.
R. Good, Moneymore
- Never remember a favour you have shown;
never forget one you have received.
J. H. C. - I know there are no errors, In the great eternal
plan, And all things work together, For the final good of man.
L. Burnett, Moneymore - Don't merely cry out to Providence if
you fall into a bed of nettles, sit up quickly and look for a dock
leaf.
(Rev.) Sidney Deale, Limavady - Have a heart that never
hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never
hurts. (C. Dickens)
Mrs. Atchison, Castledawson - I give you this shilling
because I am willing, To help Magherafelt Bazaar; I hope it will
prosper and by a success, And gather the shillings from far.
E. Wallace, Enniskillen
- Don't look for the flaws as you go
through life, And even if you find them, It's wise and kind to be
sometimes blind, And think of the virtues behind them.
L. Elliott, Greentown, Florencecourt
- Christ for all - all
for Christ.
J. Elliott, Clyinagh, Florencecourt - We prepare best for
to-morrow, by doing our best to-day.
Mrs. J. Wallace, Enniskillen
- No matter what the words may
be, That now are sent to you, It's the heart behind the wish, That
speaks the friendship true.
Mrs. Moffit, Enniskillen - A cheerful heart is like a sunny
day - good for everyone.
(Mrs.) R. Bracken, Florencecourt - Whom have I in heaven but
Thee or on earth that I should desire besides Thee.
Mrs. Cassidy, Gorteen, Co. Fermanagh
- Only one life and
'twill soon be past, only what's done for Jesus will last.
Wm. Moore, Leamore, Letterbreen
- We want men who will strive
for high ideals, but will remember that we must achieve the highest
ideals by practical methods.
Mr. Boyd, Wheathill, Florencecourt
- When God shall open His
book of life, And view each name with care; May every name that's
written here, Be found recorded there.
F. Kerr, Lisdiverick, Florencecourt
- Thou shalt not covet
thou neighbour's wife, His ox thou shalt not slaughter; But thank
the Lord 'tis not a sin, To court thy neighbour's daughter.
W. A. Kennedy, Main Street, Maghera
- Choose not your friends
by their outward show: The feather floats, but the pearl lies low.
M. McLean, Upperlands - He liveth long who liveth well, All
else is being flung away; He liveth longest who can tell, Of true
things truly done each day. (Bonar)
A. McLean, Upperlands - None but a fool is always right.
(Hare)
M. Michael, Upperlands - When there is a twinkle in the eye
there is a sparkle of heaven in the heart.
L. Ferguson, Upperlands
- He that bullies those who are not
in a position to resist may be a snob, but cannot be a gentleman.
C. McCunn, Upperlands (McCann, McCune?) - "Our deeds shall
travel with us from afar; And what we have been makes us what we
are."
J. Dunlop, Cookstown - Get wisdom; get understanding; forget
it not.
J. A. McCunn, Culnady, Upperlands - We bless Thee for Thy
will made known, O Lord, from ago to age; Grateful that in Thy Word
we own, So rich a heritage. Here shines a light o'er all the way,
That mortal feet have trod, And leads, with ever-brightening ray,
Home by the Cross to God. (W. H. Groser)
M. Houston, Ballymacilcurr, Upperlands
- Be not the first to
discover, A flaw in the heart of a friend, A fault in the heart of
another, Who yet may prove true in the end.
C. McCunn, Upperlands
- If all my years were summer, could I
know, What my Lord means by His "made white as snow"? If I
were never weary, could I keep, Close to my heart, "He gives His
loved ones sleep"?
I. Wallace, Florencecourt - I have looked the paper o'er and
o'er, To see what others wrote before; And on this lonely little
spot, I simply write "forget-me-not."
V. Acheson, Florencecourt, Enniskillen
- You ask me for a
line, I'll write one from above; One that will a volume fill, "God
is love"
E. Trimble, Florencecourt - You ask me for a line :- In the
beginning God created Heaven and earth. Gen. I, 1.
S. Atchison, R.U.C., Castledawson
- "Freemasonery" of health
and fitness, Sacred thy body even as thy soul, 'A sound body and a
sound mind' will be found to go all the way."
Mrs. Wilson, Desertlyn, Moneymore
- Cease to do evil; learn
to do well.
A. F. Murphy, Ivybank, Moneymore - There is nothing good or
bad but thinking makes it so.
Mrs. Good, Moneymore - "To err is human; to forgive, Divine."
O. Hassard, Lawford Street, Moneymore - Don't get into debt:
starve and go to Heaven, but don't borrow. (Ruskin)
L. Young, Lawford Street, Moneymore
- The blessing of
blessings to him who has always time to be kind. (W. N. Letts)
G. Meares, Moneymore - The darkest day, wait till to-morrow,
will have passed away.
D. Stewart, Magherafelt - Keep smiling tho' the skies are
grey, and look upon the bright side; and if no bright side you can
see, then polish up the dark side.
J. Aspell, Belfast - Do right and fear no man; Don't write
and fear no women.
(Mrs.) E. Gribben, Castledawson - A stitch in time saves
nine.
L. McCleary, Hillhall, Lisburn - It is not so much where you
live, As whether while you live you live, And to the world
your highest give, And so make answer positive, That you are truly
fit to live.
T. McCleary, Hillhall, Lisburn - Look up, and not down; look
forward, and not back; look out, and not in; and lend a hand. (E. E.
Hale)
J. K. Bradley, Slatabogie, Maghera - A good name is rather to
be chosen than great riches.
R. Crawford, Tamneymartin, Maghera
- "The Lord loveth a
cheerful giver."
Roy Crawford, Bank Square, Maghera - You will never have a
friend if you have one without fault.
Henry Thompson, Main Street, Maghera
- "Come unto Me all ye
that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."
J. A. Martin, Maghera - A merry heart maketh a cheerful
countenance.
Mrs. W. Paul, Carrickakielt - "Seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and His righteousness."
Mrs. T. H. Shiels, Barley Hill, Maghera
- "As thy days so
shall thy strength be."
Mrs. Johnston, Barley Hill, Maghera
- "Through each
perplexing path of life, Our wand'ring footsteps guide; Give us each
day our daily bread, And raiment fit provide."
Wm. Bradley, Slatabogie, Maghera
- "Depart from evil and do
good, and dwell for evermore."
Mrs. Frew, Curley Hill, Bellaghy
- "As the hart panteth after
the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God."
Mrs. McIvor, Castledawson Road, Magherafelt
- "A heart
unspotted is not easily daunted."
Mrs. McConnell, Church Street, Magherafelt
- Be wise, soar
not too high to fall; But stoop, to rise.
Wm. Simpson, Magherafelt
- A fool and his money are easily
parted.
T. J. Stockman, Haypark Avenue, Belfast - Say not always what
you know; but always know what you say.
A. G. Hawthorne, Hall Street, Maghera
- "Never put off till
to-morrow the good you can do to-day."
E. M. Hazlett, Hall Street, Maghera
- "Love all; trust a few;
do wrong to none."
J. A. Stockman, Coleraine Road, Maghera
- A word once uttered
can never be recalled.
A. Stockman, Coleraine Road, Maghera
- Happiness in the
present; good fortune in the future.
N. E. P., University Street, Belfast
- A Scripture character
without a name, Who never to corruption came, Who died the death
none ever died before, Whose shroud forms part of every household
store.
J. Dickey, Drumlamph, Castledawson - To-day well lived makes
yesterday a dream that's realized, Of happiness and sweet content
that always will be prized; And every morrow then will be a vision
bright and fair, Of radiant hope which glads the hearts of mankind
everywhere.
J. W. Dickie, "Glendega," Magherafelt
- The fiery cross of
flaming sheen, Like beacon's blaze no more is seen; But clansmen,
true to the ancient fame, Will welcome all who bear our name.
H. McQueen
- To attempt and fail is better than not attempt
at all.
R. J. Dickie, Glendega," Magherafelt - He has achieved
success who has lived well, laughed often, loved much, always looked
for the best in others, and given the best he had.
T. Moore, Rostrevor
- "The Life Everlasting." It dwells
not in innumerable years; It is the breath of God in timeless
things; The strong Divine persistence that inheres, In love's red
pulses and in faith's white wings. (P. Ainsworth)
A. I. Johnston, The Manse, Castlederg
- Ordinary means and
extraordinary application will accomplish much.
J. A. Duke, Pres. of Methodist Church in Ireland
- "Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee; because he
trusteth in Thee. Isa iii. 26.
W. Bryans, The Manse, Magherafelt
- "Go bravely on, doing the
daily duties and trusting that as our day is, and so shall our
strength be."
E. M. Brownlee, Manse, Brookeborough - "I would be true, for
there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those
who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be
brave, for there is much to dare.
J. M. Alley, Gen. Secy. for Home Missions
- That in all
things He might have the pre-eminence. (St. Paul) My
barque is wafted from the shore by breath Divine; One Who is known
in storms to sail I have on board; Above the raging of the gale I
have my Lord. (Dean Stanley)
Mrs. Bryans, The Manse, Magherafelt - We cannot change yesterday,
that is clear, Nor begin to-morrow until it is here; So all that is left
for you and me, Is to make to-day as sweet as can be.
N. McLernon, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - Words are like leaves:
and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
N. McLernon, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - Time and tide wait for
no man.
Sergt. S. J. Bothwell, Magherafelt - A smooth road never leads to
success, and a smooth sea never makes a skilful navigator.
D. J. Atcheson, Molesworth Street, Cookstown - Follow the gleam:
Be obedient unto the Heavenly vision. Do the best that you see to-day,
and you'll see a better best to-morrow.
Gwen Stewart, James Street, Cookstown - "When darkness veils His
lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy
gale, My anchor holds within the veil."
T. F. Brown, Skigoneil (Skegoniel) Avenue - The quality of mercy
is not strained: it droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven above upon
the place beneath. It is twice blesseth him that gives and him that
takes.
M. L. Burns, Church Street, Enniskillen - "Four things come not
back to man: the sped arrow, the past life, the spoken word, the
neglected opportunity."
E. S. Ludlow, Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin - "In the swift
flight of time true friendship knows no change."
H. M. Irvine, Casimir Road, Dublin - "To have to do with nothing
but the true, the good, the eternal, and these, not alone in the main
current of the general life, but small experiences of every day,
concerns of the particular hearth and home: to learn not only by a
comet's rush but a rose's birth - not by grandeur, God, but the comfort,
Christ."
I. J. Ludlow, Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin - "If you have a
smiling face, you can better play the game; so just keep a bit of
sunshine in your heart."
D. Ludlow, Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin - Little self denials,
little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts
of kindness, little silent victories over temptations: these are the
silent threads which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the
pattern of life that God approves.
O. Badger, Magherafelt - "So many Gods, so many creeds, So many
ways that wind and wind; While just the art of being kind, Is all this
sad world needs."
L. Stewart, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - Keep your face always
towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Mrs. Bothwell, Magherafelt - It is better to have tried and
failed than never to have tired at all.
Daisy McLernon, Queen Street, Magherafelt - . . . what is man;
for as simple as he looks . . . he's a problem. (George Eliot).
R. J. Walker, R.U.C., Magherafelt - Much of the capacity of man
is wasted because their superiors keep them doing little things.
J. George "Hollybank" Magherafelt - Courage mounteth with
occasion.
E. McCracken, Union Road, Magherafelt - They never learned to
love who never knew to weep. (Tennyson).
B. Christie, Magherafelt - Grasp life's good things, but that
doesn't mean "grub."
J. McCormick, Desertmartin - If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbour to be, what a heaven this world would
become.
T. Bell, Desertmartin - Practice is better than preach.
F. Johnston, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - Except a man be born
again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. John iii. 3.
E. C. Gordon, Londonderry - God had given us tongues that we may
say something pleasant to our fellow men. (H. Haines).
M. C. McCrea, Londonderry - The bitterest tears shed at graves
are for words hastily spoken or for deeds left undone. (John Wanamaker).
D. C. Espey "Salem" Magherafelt - Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are
the fruits.
J. Rutledge, Magherafelt - Make new friends, keep the old; One is
silver, the other gold.
A. S. Greer, Market Street, Magherafelt - "In Your 73rd Year."
Three score years plus ten and three, That's such a lovely age to be:
When in the days along that span, You've nobly served both God and man.
B. Pickering, Castledawson - "What a friend we have in Jesus, All
our sins and griefs to bear; What a privilege to carry, Everything to
God in prayer.
W. McIvor, Castledawson - Lay us treasure in Heaven, life will
pass away; Lay us treasure in abundant measure for the great accounting
day. Lay us treasure in Heaven, though men count thee poor, Thou shalt
reign with the Sons of God for evermore.
H. H. Lennox, Castledawson - I heard the voice of Jesus say, come
unto Me and rest; Lay down, thou weary one, lay down thy head upon My
breast. I came to Jesus as I was: weary, and worn, and sad; I found in
Him a resting place, and He has made me glad.
D. Leslie, Magherafelt - The labour of love is never tiresome.
S. Bryans, The Manse - God gave His children memory that in
life's garden there might be June roses in December.
G. R. Bryans, The Manse - "Got any river they say isn't
crossable? Got any mountain that can't be bored through? Then specialize
on the wholly impossible, Doing what nobody ever could do."
Dorothy H. Moore, Rostrevor - For this life: to love the light,
to see the best, to ask for all, to seek a city out of sight, in spite
of failure and of fall. (P. C. Ainsworth).
Wm. McConnell, Magherafelt - "Charity suffereth long and is
kind."
Dr. Hastings, Magherafelt - Actions speak louder than words.
E. Irvine, Cookstown - Nor gold nor silver hath obtained my
redemption, the blood of the Cross is my only foundation. Faith in the
atoning merits of my Saviour's death now maketh me whole.
W. J. Crawford, Londonderry - Be good sweet maid, and let who
will be clever; Do noble deeds not dream them all day long, And so make
life, death, and that vast forever, One grand sweet song.
J. H. C. - Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at
whiles, Helping when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
C. Esdale, Knockloughrim - The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
Matt Winton, Maghera - The coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
H. Connor, Desertmartin - "Virtue is like a rich stone best plain
set."
J. Curry, Curran, Knockloughrim - Subscription.
M. Esdale, Knockloughrim - To fruitfulness and blessing there is
no royal road; The power for holy service is intercourse with God.
B. Moore, Tobermore - If the road is rough and the journey steep;
If you find it hard the pace to keep, Don't give up.
W. J. Graham, Ballinacross - "Righteousness exalteth a nation;
but sin is a reproach to any people."
W. H. Crawford, Londonderry - Teach us, O our God and Father,
Teach us to obey Thee thus: Be Thy choice our portion, rather, Than what
may seem good to us. 'Tis not meet we should refuse, Aught that Thou,
our God, shalt choose.
C. Johnston, Moneymore - Rejoice in the Lord, for He knoweth your
way, His hands plan the course of your life day by day; Be joyful in
Him, let His life be your song, A heart filled with praise means a life
pure and strong.
J. Dunlop, Cookstown - The quality of mercy is not strained: It
droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.
(Shakespeare).
J. J. Ewing, Luney, Desertmartin - "Casting all your care upon
Him for He careth for you."
T. McCready, Knockloughrim - He that is thy friend indeed, He
will help thee in thy need.
Maggie Kane, Grange, Magherafelt - In the parlour there were
three, He, the parlour lamp, and she; Two is company, no doubt, So the
little lamp went out.
J. H. Eames, Rathgar, Dublin - He builds not well in pride or
spite, Whose wall shuts out a neighbour's light.
W. D. Dixon, Fivemiletown - What you are thunders so loud that I
cannot hear what you say.
E. Hudson, Irvinestown - Leave happiness alone; search not for
it: care more for right and thou wilt find that, like an angel unawares,
it steals into your heart.
S. Dixon, Fivemiletown - We want men who will fix their eyes on
the stars, but will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.
T. W. Taylor, McMaster's Hotel, Magherafelt - "Raise the stone
and there thou shalt find Me: cleave the wood and there am I."
Unrecorded saying of Jesus.
V. Gracey, Lisburn - The pleasure and sweetness that follows
victory over sin is a thousand times beyond that seeming sweetness which
is in sin.
T. Hamilton, Glendower Street, Belfast - Of all earthly goods, a
good wife is one of them.
A. McShane, Maghera Street, Kilrea - The more we fear God, the
less we fear the devil.
W. Kerr, Kilrea - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do
to-day.
Alice Winton, Maghera - Build it well whate'er you do, Build it
straight and strong and true, Build it clear and high and broad, Build
it for the eye of God, An inexhaustible supply.
R. Crawford, Maghera - Live peaceably with all men, so shalt thou
lead a happy life thyself.
G. Mawhinney, Belfast - Truth is the highest thing that man may
keep.
Birdie Paul, Knockloughrim - A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A. Royle, Aughrim, Castledawson - "Give the world the best you
have, and the best will come back to you.
M. Crawford, Ballymaquiggan - Don't wait for the windfalls,
gather your own apples.
M. Hudson, Ballymaquiggan - At even, ere the sun was set, The
sick, O Lord, around Thee lay; O in what divers pains they met, O with
what joy they went away.
H. Hall, Poorhouse, Belfast - Live, love and laugh.
J. Armstrong, Kesh - Live for those who love you, For those whose
hearts are true, For the Heaven that smiles above you, And the good that
you can do.
B. Funston, "Creamery" Kesh - God made man and rested. However,
since God made woman, neither God nor man has rested.
G. McClintock, Main Street, Kesh - God is the strength of my
heart.
F. L. McCutcheon, P.O. or P.C., Kesh - Life is mostly froth and
bubble, Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
J. McKittrick, "Vaughan School," Kesh - "The quality of mercy is
not strained."
L. E. Doonan, P.O., Kesh - Success in the World. We may not
meet with great success, carve for ourselves a name; But it may be true
greatness lies in striving all the same.
L. J. Kilfedder, Kesh - A friend in need is a friend indeed.
J. McConville, Kesh - "None but the brave deserve the fair."
E. McMorris, Enniskillen - The secret pleasure of the generous
act is the great mind's great bribe. (Dryden.)
S. Irwin, Kesh - "The best argument for love is love."
E. K. Kesh - I a poor orphan meek and lonely.
J. McCutcheon, "Hill View" Movarn - The love of God is broader
than the measure of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal is most
wonderfully kind.
Mrs. L. Greenhorn, Aughrim, Magherafelt - Most of the shadows of
life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Mrs. E. Kirkwood, Ballymaquiggan P.O. - Not now but in the coming
years, It may be in a better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears,
And then sometime we'll understand.
Mrs. J. H. Gilmore, Aughrim, Castledawson - Honour is but the
finest sense of justice the human mind can frame.
D. C. Swayne, "Band (Bank) of Ireland House, Ballymena - So brief
our existence, a glimpse at the most, Is all we can have of the few we
hold dear; And oft' even joy in unheeded and lost, For want of some
heart that could echo it near, Ah, well may we hope when this short life
is shone, To meet in some world of more permanent bliss; For a smile, or
a grasp of the hand hastening on, Is all we enjoy of each other in this.
(Moore)
H. D. Swayne, Bank of Ireland House, Ballymena - Greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(St. John. 15, 13.)
R. McReynolds, Kilrea - Since man to man is so unjust, pay to-day
and I'll trust to-morrow.
Thompson - More things are wrought by prayer than this world
dreams of.
L. Pinkerton, Charlemont, Moy - "There's something that draws us
upward, There's something that drags us down; The consequence is, that
we wobble, Twixt muck and a golden crown."
L. M. Gilpin, Copney, Dungannon - "The Heaven we pray for would
be here, If each would bravely do his part, To crown with joy one
cheerless home, To crown with love one human heart."
J. Gilpin, Dungannon - "Enter not into the path of the wicked,
and go not in the way of sinful men." (Prov. 4, 14.)
A. J. F. W. Anderson, Crerenisk, Kesh - Subscription.
K. Graham, Tullyhommon P.O., Co. Fermanagh - Those who bring
sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
M. E. Doonan, Cookeborough - He, who has a thousand friends, has
not a friend to spare; And he, who has one enemy, shall meet him
everywhere.
H. McMaster, "P.O. House" Magherafelt - "Be very pitiful, for
every man is fighting a hard battle." ("British Weekly")
G. H. Sheridan, Magherafelt - That Minister whose life is not the
model of his doctrine is a babbler, rather than a preacher; a "quack"
rather than a physician of value.
(Mrs. J. Gibson, Rainey Street, Magherafelt - If you would be
healthy, be temperate; if wealthy, be industrious; if happy, be
virtuous.
S. F. McMaster, "Hotel" Magherafelt - When choosing a wife look
at her mother, for if the daughter is not like her mother now, she will
be before she dies.
W. R. S. McMaster, "Hotel," Magherafelt - Little boys should be
seen and not heard.
A. R. McMaster, "Hotel," Magherafelt - Troubles are like dogs,
the smaller they are the more they annoy you.
B. Law, Cullion, Desertmartin - The labour of love is never
tiresome.
B. McLernon, Green Lanes, London - One who is a half man and half
dog will bow to the rich, and bow-wow to the poor.
W. Courtney, "McMaster's Hotel," Magherafelt - A promise made is
a debt unpaid.
(Mrs.) M. Johnston, Pettigo - He that makes others fear him has
reason to fear them.
J. E. Gilpin, "Belfast Bank," Magherafelt - "There is a tide in
the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune:
Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in
miseries.
E. B. Colbert, Ulsterville Gardens, Belfast - "The rank is but
the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that."
Anonymous - A shall pass through this world but once; If
therefore there may be any kindness I can show, or nay good thing that I
can do, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall
not pass this way again.
Mary, Portstewart - "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;
blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out."
S. Nelson - Be wise to-day; it is madness to delay.
William Nelson - It is a wise divine, who follows his own
instructions.
John Derby - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest
stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears,
then imitate the action of the tiger; stifien (stiffen?) the sinews,
summon up the blood.
Mrs. Derby - "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall
stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men."
W. M. Derby - If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength
is small.
S. Derby - Every one can master a grief, but he that has it.
S. Derby - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the
flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snowfall in the river, A moment
white, then gone for ever.
Sam Derby - Silence is the most perfect herald of joy; I were but
little happy, if I could say how much.
J. Goligher, Londonderry - Straight is the path of duty, Curved
is the line of beauty; Follow the straight and thou shalt see, The
curved line ever follow thee.
J. T. C., Lurgan - I have looked into the face of Jesus, and the
world can never be the same again. (Bishop J. Taylor Smith, D.D.)
R. J. F. H., Lurgan - "The mind's the standard of the man."
Mrs. J. Shiels, Broad Street, Magherafelt - "The forgiveness we
want is infinite, changeless and everlasting."
(From "Two Stoney-Brokes") - Grow old along with me; the best is
yet to be.
(Gabriels Garden) - The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of
the birds for mirth; You are nearer God's heart in a garden, Than
anywhere else on earth.
L. E. - As far from danger as from fear, While love - Almighty live
is near. (C. Wesley)
Mrs. Fennel, Cookstown - Bold I approach the eternal throne, And
claim the crown through Christ my own.
G. N. Fennel, The Manse, Cookstown - "I know Him Whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have
committed unto Him against that day."
A. B. Henry, Magherafelt - Religion in its true sense is the most
joyous thing the human soul can know."
N. Graham, Magherafelt - Be not dismayed though crosses cast thee
down, Thy fall is but the rising to a crown.
Parker J. C. Henry - Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade
yourself.
H. McCullough, James Street, Cookstown - None of us yet know, for
to none has it yet been revealed in early youth, what fairy palaces we
may build for ourselves of beautiful thoughts - proof against all
adversity. (Ruskin).
Mrs. Derby, Magherafelt - As your days your strength shall be.
Harold S. A. Henry - A smile goes a long, long way.
J. R. Calvert, Sunnymount, Portadown - Two men looked through
prison bars, The one saw mud, and the other stars.
G. Lutton, Windsor Lodge, Portadown - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh
no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot on land and one on sea, To
one thing constant never.
C. W. Calvert, Breagh, Portadown - Keep your temper: it is worth
more to you than to anyone else.
Maud Ritchie, Hewitt Parade, Belfast - Onely one life, 'twill
soon be past, Only what's done for Jesus will last.
Mrs. Johnston, Garden Street, Magherafelt - When my life on earth
is ended, And the path of life I've trod, May my name in gold be
written, In the autograph of God.
Mrs. Dornan, Garden Street, Magherafelt - They shall not grow
old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them nor the
years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will
remember them.
G. Johnston, Garden Street, Magherafelt - There's just one corner
of the earth, More dear than all beside; No gold could measure half its
wealth, The place where love abides. However far my feet may roam, My
heart remains at "Home Sweet Home."
Edna C. Henry - There is a budding morrow in midnight. (Keats).
S. Rankin, Magherafelt - In the golden chain of friendship regard
me as a link.
Dorothy A. Henry - A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. (Keats).
Enid E. Leslie, Magherafelt - In delay, we waste our lights in
vain, like lamps by day. (Shakespeare)
A. Atkinson, Belfast - An idle mendicant no more, Is he who begs
at Heaven's door, Until with soul and mind, He seeks himself life's
gifts to find.
F. McIver, Cookstown - The best way to enjoy a holiday - do
nothing comfortably.
D. Morris - Goven orf, orf dysg.
A. Friend - Every man will be thy friend, Whilst thou hast
wherewith to spend. (Shakespeare)
S. J. W. McKinlay, Cookstown College - Enjoy yourself while
you're alive, for you'll be dead a long, long time.
A. J. Black - To the brightest beams distracted clouds give way.
(Shakespeare)
R. E. Ward, Magherafelt - A sacred burden is the life you bear;
look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly; stand up and walk beneath it
steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin; but onward, upward
till the goal you win.
C. W. Henry, Magherafelt - The government of your life is a
matter entirely between God and yourself, when swayed from any other
source, you are on the wrong path.
Kathleen Eamies, Rathgar, Dublin - I thank Thee Lord that Thou
hast made joy to abound; So many gentle thoughts and deeds, circling us
around, That in the darkest spot on earth some love is found.
Mrs. E. Eamies, Highfield Road, Dublin - We bid life's cares and
trifles fly, and where Thou art appear no more, omnicient Lord, Thy
piercing eye doth every secret thought explore; O, may Thy grace our
hearts refine, and fix our thoughts on things divine.
G. Montgomery Knockloughrim - A bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush.
Agnes Bolton, Knockloughrim - Better limp all the way to Heaven,
than not get there at all.
Mrs. Bolton, Knockloughrim - God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.
Emily Shiels, Maghera - God's ways are the ways of happiness, and
all His paths are peace.
G. G. Chinnery, Castletown, Co. Cork - "Hitch your wagon to a
star."
J. Hosford, Phale Court, Ballineen - Never put off till to-morrow
what you can do to-day.
(Mrs.) J. Hosford, Ballineen, Co. Cork - Keep cheerily on:- Do
not hide to-day's sun behind to-morrow's cloud.
H. M. Hosford, Ballineen, Co. Cork - He that is down need fear no
fall, He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall, Have God to
be his guide.
E. Hosford, Main Street, Ballineen - Clouds have a silver lining
is a proverb old, If we trust in Jesus ours are lined with gold.
J. E. Buckrose, "Bethany" - There are three things which make any
life lovely: The beauty of reverence, the dignity of patience, and the
joy of unselfishness.
L. Picken, Magherafelt - Only one life it will soon be past, only
what's done for Jesus will last.
Mr. Dowdall, Dunamoney, Magherafelt - A good book is the precious
life-blood of a master spirit.
A. Friend - Love is not love which alters when it alteration
finds, or bends with the remover to remove. (Shakespeare)
W. J. R. Benson, Eglantine Avenue, Belfast - The evening of the
christian's life brings with it its own lamp.
A. Friend - Give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but
let ill tidings tell themselves. (Shakespeare)
J. McFadden, Church Street, Magherafelt - Full many a flower is
born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. (T.
Gray)
K. G. Leavey - "Our truest relatives are those who are nearest
akin to us in mind, in soul, in spirit."
E. Geoffrey Deale, Belfast - Believe nothing against another, but
upon good authority: nor repeat what may hurt another, unless it be a
greater hurt to others to conceal it. (W. Penn)
H. Calvert, Sunnymount, Portadown - I shall pass through this
world but once; If therefore there may be any kindness I can show, or
any good thing that I can do, let me do it now, let me not defer it or
neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
W. L. Calvert, Sunnymount, Portadown - Wherever you be, be
humble, Whatever you do, do well; Whenever you speak, speak kindly, Give
joy wherever you dwell.
C. A. Twinem, Moyraverty, Lurgan - Some ships go east and some go
west, Whilst the self same wind doth blow; For it's rudder and sail and
not the gale, Decide where the ships shall go.
"Westview" You cannot run away from a weakness, You must
fight it or you fall, Each successive victory will witness Others either
big or small.
G. M. W., "Bella Vista" - Leave God to order all thy ways, and
hope in Him whate'er betide; Thou'll find Him in the evil days, thy
all-sufficient strength and guide: who trusts in God's unchanging love
builds on a rock that nought can move.
Mrs. S. Kelly, B'cross, Knockloughrim - "God is love"
M. Hunter, Knockloughrim - The world needs the best you can give
it.
Ida Childe, Carrickakielt - Love is a feeling, a very funny
feeling; it's a feeling that you cannot understand; it's a feeling that
you "feel" when you feel that you want to "feel" a feeling that you feel
for ever more.
Mary Clarke, Knockloughrim - If it is not right, do not do it; if
it is not true, do not say it.
"Squib" Beagh, Maghera - Remember me in the morning, remember me
at night, Remember me when you are happy, and don't forget to write.
B. Melodion, Beagh - Think of my long, think of me ever, Think of
the fun we had together.
Annie E. Ewing, Knockloughrim - "He that cometh unto Me I will in
no wise cast out."
M. Phillips, Ballinahone, Knockloughrim - Opportunities are like
shooting stars, you have got to keep a sharp lookout for them.
Lena E. Phillips, Ballinahone, Knockloughrim - Jesus Christ, the
same yesterday, to-day and for ever.
Mrs. Currie, Knockloughrim - When God sees the flowers need His
tender care, He sends little raindrops with a blessing there.
G. Armitage, Cloughgordon - All through the day, O Lord, let me
touch as many lives as possible for Thee; and every life I touch do Thou
by Thy Holy Spirit quicken. whether through the word I speak, the prayer
I breathe, or the life I live.
J. Magill, Curran - Love it is a funny thing, have you ever felt
the pain? I'd rather spend six months in jail, than fall in love again.
J. Badger, Knockloughrim - Let gardeners go to Botany Bay, and
shoeblacks to Japan; Batchelors (Bachelors) to the United States, but
maids to the Isle of Man.
Mrs. Sam Bradley, Beagh, Maghera - Six days a week the devil
works, works overtime on Sunday, And then he's ready once again to start
afresh on Monday.
Mrs. Jones, Beagh, Maghera - Truth is the highest thing that man
may keep
Mick Hunt, Carrickakielt - When we cannot get what we like, we
must like what we have got.
J. Winchester, Carrickakielt - I have no wife to trouble my life,
No lover to prove untrue; So I ne'er sit down with no tear or frown, But
paddle my own canoe.
G. Hood, Derganagh, Knockloughrim - Get up, get up for Jesus, ye
soldiers of the Cross, A lazy Sunday morning means certain harm and
loss. If Christians on a week-day begin their work at seven, They surely
could on Sunday start worship at eleven.
Mary Graham, Knockloughrim - If you cannot stand your Vicar,
never advertise your views; Ask the Lord to make him quicker and,
perhaps, to quicken you.
Cissie Kelly, Knockloughrim - The ring is round, the table,
square; If all my friends were gathered there, I'd leave them all,
without a tear, And go with you my darling dear.
N. Heatherington, Coastguards, Carrickfergus - Happiness is a
golden thread let down from the window of Heaven to bind human hearts
together.
J. R. Harkness, Loy, Cookstown - Here with a loaf of bread
beneath the bough, A flask of wine a book of verse - and thou, Beside me
singing in the wilderness, And wilderness is paradise enow. (now)
Doreen McDowell, "Arendal House," Cultra - The truly humble
christian does not inquire into his neighbour's faults; he takes no
pleasure in judging them; he is wholly with his own.
Ina McDowell, "Arendal House," Cultra - A friend is one who knows
all about you, and loves you all the same.
(Mrs.) R. McDowell, "Arendal House," Cultra - No one is useless
in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
J. McDowell, "Arendal," Cultra - Life is a leaf of paper white,
Whereon each one of us may write, His word or two, and then comes night.
John S. C. Warnock, Rockmore, Ballywalter - We shall pass through
this world but once, if therefore there be any good thing we can do, let
us do it, let us not neglect it not defer it, for we shall not pass this
way again.
Winifred Owens, "Grovehill," Bangor - Don't look for flaws as you
go through life, And ever if you find them, It is wise and kind to be
sometimes blind, And look for the virtues behind them.
F. M. Owens, Donaghadee Road, Bangor - Faith came singing into my
room, and other guests took flight; Fear and anxiety, doubt and gloom
sped out into the night: I wondered that such peace could be, till faith
said gently. Don't you see, they really cannot live with me.
F. Laughlin, Clifton Road, Bangor - "Boys flying kites haul in
their white winged birds, You can't do that when you are flying words."
W. Brownlee, The Manse, Brookeboro - "Thou wilt keep him in
perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee" (Isaiah 26, 3)
J. Morrell, Enniskillen - Every man thinks his own geese swans.
Anon - Work out is better than rust out.
John J. Kelly, Knockloughrim - The ring is round, the sea is
deep, A young girl's heart is hard to keep; And when you think you have
it won, She'll leave you where you first begun.
B. S. Lyons, The Manse, Carrickfergus - "Charity begins at home,
but should not end there."
W. Bingham, Cable Road, Whitehead - Have a heart that never
hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
W. C. Jones, Greenisland - "Human instincts lie deeper than
philosophers' arguments."
W. A. Carson, Whitehead - Know, for thou else couldst not
believe.
T. M. Irvine, Whitehead - "More things are wrought by prayer then
this world dreams of."
A. W. Bell, Cable Road, Whitehead - Sow an action, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
N. Wilson, Donard Villa, Whitehead - "Beyond the east the sun
rises, beyond the west the sea, And east and west the wander-thirst that
will not let me be; It works in me like madness, to make me say
good-bye, For the earth calls, and the sea calls, and, oh, the call of
the sky.'
(Dr.) N. S. Dickson, Balfour Avenue, Whitehead - Leisure. "A poor
life this, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare."
W. H. Dickson, Clarendon Street, Londonderry - "These are the
things I ask of Thee, Spirit serene: Strength for the daily task,
courage to face the road, Good cheer to help me bear the traveller's
load."
M. Dickson, "Kilterman," Whitehead - "Alas! that spring should
vanish with the rose; That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should
close."
H. Elliott, High School, Whitehead - Don't make excuses - make
good.
A. Bell, Cliftonville Road, Belfast - A Sabbath well spent brings
a week of content, And strength for the toils of to-morrow; But a
Sabbath profained whate'er may be gained, Is a sure forerunner of
sorrow.
Sadie Dewart, Lurgan - "If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds worth of distance run, Yours is the earth, and
everything that's in it, And what is more, you'll be a man my son."
M. Hamilton, Bangor - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house
of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools,
for they consider not that they do evil.
Mrs. Maguire, Skeoge, Maguire's Bridge - Our life is planned, our
pathway traced, Our future all decreed, Our duty just to follow on
wherever He doth lead.
W. S. Taylor, "Foydragh House," Lisbellaw - Do you wish the world
were better? let me tell you what to do, Set a watch upon your actions,
keep them always straight and true, Rid your mind of selfish motives,
let your thoughts be clean and high, You can make a little Eden of the
sphere you occupy.
Anon - It is much better to go on and fret, than to stop and
fret.
J. W. Parkes, "Ferndale House," Enniskillen - Noble deeds are
held in honour, but the wide world sadly needs, Hearts of patience to
unravel the worth of common deeds.
H. Boyd, The Manse, Lisbellaw - What man would be wise, let him
learn of the river; That bears on its waters the record of time, A
message to him every wave can deliver, To teach him to creep till he
knows how to climb.
E. H., Riverside, Maguire's Bridge - "Except a man be born again
he cannot see the Kingdom of God." (John 3, 2.)
W. A. H., Maguire's Bridge - That which is born of the flesh is
flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I
said unto thee, ye must be born again. (John 3, 6.)
S. A., Riverside, Maguire's Bridge - "Seek ye the Lord while He
may be found."
J. Aiken, Darling Street, Enniskillen - What is a kiss? something
better than money, Dearer than [raises and sweeter than honey, Oldest
and best of earth's nectared wine, Love's own exclusive appropriate
sign.
M. A. Kinkead, Sutton - "A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Mrs. A. B. Dobson, Gardner Villa, Whitehead - "Where duty calls,
or danger, be never wanting there."
A. B. Dobson, Gardner Villa, Whitehead - "Lives of great men all
remind us we can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us
footprints on the sands of time."
D. Dobson, Gardner Villa, Whitehead - "The light that shines the
farthest shines brightest nearest home."
E. M. W. Ballywalter - Tho' the mills of God grind slowly, Yet
they grind exceedingly small, Tho' with patience He stands waiting, With
exactness grinds He all.
Jeannie Ireland, London - If your lips would keep from slips,
five things observe with care: of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and
how, and when, and where.
E. R. F. Mellon, Dublin - "To thine own self be true, and it must
follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
S. E. M., Co. Down - Have you had a kindness shown? pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone, pass it on; Let it travel down the
years, let it dry another's tears; Till in Heaven the deed appears, pass
it on.
G. Bennett Hammill, "Castletown House," Dundalk - "The friends
thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hopes
of steel.
Mae Hamill, "Castletown House," Dundalk - "Your life is a book
those around you can read, They are reading it every day; In the way you
look, and the way you act, Not only the words you say.
C. W. Graham, Belfast - There are different ways of doing things,
A casual glance discloses; Some girls turn up their sleeves at work, And
some turn up their noses.
Meta McDowell, "Arendal House" Cultra - Don't worry - it may
never happen.
Thos. S. Taylor, "Foydragh House," Lisbellaw - The world is full
of beauty, it might be full of love, If we all but did our duty as the
Angels do above.
J. R. Jordon, "Drumee House," Brookeboro - Never trouble trouble,
till trouble troubles you, For it only doubles trouble, and troubles
others too.
C. Johnston, Gola, Brookeboro - Let us speak of a man as we find
him, And censure alone what we see, And, should anyone blame, lets
remind him, That from faults we are none of us free.
W. Crozier, Littlemount, P.E.S. - "Be thou familiar, but by no
means vulgar; those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grappel
them to thy soul with hoops of steel."
I. Haire, Brookeboro - Let not the wise his wisdom boast, the
mighty glory in his might, the rich in flattering riches trust, which
take their ever-lasting flight.
(Mrs.) L. Haire, Brookeboro - Make us of one heart and mind,
courteous, pitiful and kind, Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
altogether like our Lord.
W. Johnston, Lurgan - "Tis only noble to be good."
A. McAlister, High Street, Lurgan - "All worthy joys go less to
the one joy of doing kindness."
E. McAlister, Hugh Street, Lurgan - "Give every man thine ear,
but few thy voice."
Miss McGowan, Lurgan - "Who gives quickly gives twice."
A. Gracey, Lurgan - "Fear God, honour the King."
J. Savage, Gilford Road, Lurgan - "Nothing great is lightly won,
nothing won is lost, every good deed nobly done will repay the cost."
M. E. Duke, Finaghy Park, Belfast - "Keep on hoping for the
bright, bright skies."
W. McQuitty, Enniskillen - Remember man as you pass by, as you
are now, so once was I, as I am now, so you must be, therefore prepare
to follow me, to follow you I am not prepared, unless I know the road
you have went.
R. Caldwell, White Park, Brookeboro - He knows, He loves, He
cares, nothing this truth can dim, He gives the very best to those who
leave the choice to Him.
C. Erskine, Hazelbank, Brookboro - For the love of God is broader
than the measures of man's mind and the heart of the Eternal is most
wonderfully kind.
