Character and Conduct – 8 March – Work – To Cure the Voice of the Past
ALL measures of reformation are effective in exact proportion to their timeliness. Partial decay may be cut away and cleansed, incipient error corrected: but there is a point at which corruption can no more be stayed, nor wandering recalled. It has been the manner of modern philanthropy to remain passive until that precise period, and to leave the sick to perish, and the foolish to stray, while it spent itself in frantic exertions to raise the dead, and reform the dust.
The Queen of the Air, JOHN RUSKIN.
THE real work of charity is not to afford facilities to the poor to lower their standard, but to step in when calamity threatens and prevent it from falling.
The Standard of Life, Mrs. BERNARD BOSANQUET.
TO cure is the voice of the past; to prevent, the divine whisper of to-day.
Children’s Rights, KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.
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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.
Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume
In her preface Whishaw writes:
‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’
It is my hope in publishing them here readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.
Suffolk Vicar 