Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 7 – The Evidence of a Christian Life

The best evidence of the truth of Christianity is the evidence of a simple, honest, earnest Christian.

No pure and simple life, true to itself, true to its Maker, was ever lived on this earth, that was not a voice on God’s behalf, however still and small;  and that did not, in its sincere and humble way, declare a hope, and reveal a faith which might well be the evidence of things unseen. 

(Alexander Gordon)

Wherever we are drawn into contact with those whom we instinctively feel to be better and purer than ourselves, there, through them, again and again comes to us a sudden unveiling of God, and we feel the touch of that Eternal Love in which the universe lives and moves and has its being.

(Reverend A. Armstrong)

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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