Character and Conduct – 22 March – Service
THEY were to mortify the self-importance and vain dignity that will not render commonplace kindness. ‘If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.’
The Mind of the Master, Dr. JOHN WATSON.
NOTHING is degrading which a high and graceful purpose ennobles, and offices the most menial cease to be menial the moment they are wrought in love.
J. MARTINEAU.
AND service will be the personal tribute to Jesus, whom we shall recognise under any disguise, as his nurse detected Ulysses by his wounds, and whose Body, in the poor and miserable, will ever be with us for our discernment. Jesus is the leper whom the saint kissed, and the child the monk carried over the stream, and the sick man the widow nursed into health, after the legends of the ages of faith. And Jesus will say at the close of the day, ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
The Mind of the Master, Dr. JOHN WATSON.
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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 