Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 14 – An Unconverted Pocketbook

There is no truly Christian man who keeps an unconverted pocket-book.   God’s universal law of unselfish service is as supreme in the domain of material possessions – in the realm of that wealth which extends a man’s power ‘to bring things to pass,’ – as it is in any other department of man’s possible efforts.   The unvarying law of God, which attaches an obligation to every opportunity and places a duty over against every right, makes no exception of wealth with its vast powers of service.

God has so ordered the social life of our race that no man can make the most of his powers of mind and heart and will until he employs those powers in the service of his fellow-men.

M. E. Gates

It is the knowledge of God which opens blind eyes and deaf ears to understand the hidden, silent longings of the poor;  it is also the knowledge of God by which men gain the power to give up houses and lands, prospects and friends, so that they may love their neighbours according to their needs.

Canon Barnett (The Service of God)

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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