Character and Conduct – 3 September – Bereavement
IF we still love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?
The Newcomes, THACKERAY
THEY that love beyond the World cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship.
If Absence be not Death, neither is it theirs.
Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this Divine Glass they see Face to Face; and their converse is Free as well as Pure.
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
WILLIAM PENN
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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 