Precept and Practice – JUNE 19 – A Lantern

Look straight into the Light, and you will always have the shadows behind.

The one thing you have to do is the thing which lies next to you.  ‘Thy word is a lamp unto my feet.’   We have no light promised us to show us our road a hundred miles away, but we have a light for the next footstep, and if we take that, we shall have a light for the one which is to follow.

The Divine Light is indeed a ‘lantern to a man’s path,’ but it is a lantern that throws its light only in the direction in which he who carries it has to go.

The Reverend Henry Latham (Pastor Pastorum)

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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