Precept & Practice – APRIL 8 – Amenity
– alas, we have too little in our national character of the quality which this word expresses his inborn, his constant amenity.
Category: poem
Precept & Practice – APRIL 3 – Cordiality
we give nothing if we do not give love
Precept & Practice – APRIL 2 – The Little Rift within the Lute
It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence alle
Precept & Practice – APRIL 1 – Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings and neglect cause more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness
Precept & Practice – MARCH 31 – Friction
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
A Sermon: Growing Smaller
‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’ (John the Baptist)
When we learn to follow the first follower of Jesus we discover that the Christian life is about learning to grow smaller.
Character and Conduct – 5 August – Friendship
If I could choose a young man’s companions, some should be weaker than himself, that he might learn patience and charity; many should be as nearly as possible his equals, that he might have the full freedom of friendship; but most should be stronger than he was, that he might for ever be thinking humbly of himself and be tempted to higher things.
Character and Conduct – 4 August – Friendship
Note what the great men admired – they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Character and Conduct – 3 August – Influence
IT requires but little knowledge of society and history to assure us of the strong permeating invisible influence upon society at large of any body of men of clear thought, strong conviction, and disciplined conduct.
Suffolk Vicar 