Precept & Practice – MAY 3 – The Mirror at the Wrong Angle

‘Make Christ your most constant companion.’

…..Be more under His influence than under any other influence.   Ten minutes spent in His society every day, ay, two minutes if it be face to face, and heart to heart, will make the whole day different.

Every character has an inward spring, let Christ be it.   Every action has a key-note, let Christ set it.

Yesterday you got a certain letter.   You sat down and wrote a reply which almost scorched the paper.

You picked the cruellest adjectives you knew and sent it forth, without a pang, to do its ruthless work.

You did that because your life was set in the wrong key.   You began the day with the mirror placed at the wrong angle.   To-morrow, at daybreak, turn it towards Him, and even to your enemy the fashion of your countenance will be changed.   Whatever you then do, one thing you will find you could not do – you could not write that letter. 

Henry Drummond (The Changed Life)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW