Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 29 – Religious Tolerance

The text, ‘wisdom is justified of all her children,’ conveys a lesson of ample tolerance which even in these days all minds are not stretched wide enough to receive.   The point is this.  God has children of more types than one, and all these, in their own different ways, justify God’s thought for them by taking advantage of His help.   The ways of Jesus and the ways of John differ widely, but men may reach God coming round by either way.   Some may gain access to the Kingdom through John and others by Jesus;  but all who are God’s will get there by some way or other.

The Reverend Henry Latham (Pastor Pastorum)

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions;  the narrow-minded see only the differences.

Tolerance means reverence for all possibilities of truth…..   it means the charity that is greater than even faith and hope.

W. E. Gladstone

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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