Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 5 – Hope

The night is mother of the day, 

The winter of the spring;

And ever, upon old decay,

The greenest mosses cling.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, 

Through showers the sunbeams fall;

For God, who loveth all His works,

Hath left His Hope with all.

J. G. Whittier

Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it casts the shadows of our burden behind us.

Hope is the chief mark ‘of all the souls whom

God hath made His friends.’

Danté

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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