Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 15 – Twilight Shades
Sometimes, as we travel on to our distant Home, strange things pass by us on the way;- beautiful imaginings which come when we are alone with Nature, spiritual thrills of the heart, which arise from common things, thoughts which awake in us a mystic wonder, telling of another country and a better life, and which are to us as the seaweed to Columbus messages of God to tell us that our hopes shall be satisfied, and that our voyage will soon end.
Happy are we if, in the quiet of old age, these blessed visions are ours
(Bishop Phillips Brooks)
The twilight shades are deepening, and the night
Comes swiftly down, and we we turn to Thee In Whom no shadow is;
be Thou our Light
And give us eyes to see.
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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
Suffolk Vicar 