Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 11 – A Rebuking Vision
And the proper action of this lovingness, a word better than pity, for it implies no superiority, is through patience.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 10 – A Rebuking Vision
Of all the sad things in this world there is nothing so sad as that – to have seen the good and to have let it go.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 9 – Haves and Have Nots
Truly has it been said that men only enjoy a feast by forgetting the starving.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 8 – A Citizen’s Duty
They saw in their fellows not the actual but the ideal man. They saw in the meanest and guiltiest wretch that lived possibilities of the divinest graces that human character can illustrate.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 7 – Allowances
A bruised reed thou shalt not break.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 6 – A Bruised Reed
God’s heart goes forth to meet His erring children. The Good Shepherd goes forth to seek His wandering sheep.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 5 – Hope
Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it casts the shadows of our burden behind us.
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 4 – Mending the Rents
As nature with her old mosses and her new spring foliage hides the ruins which man has made, and gives to the fallen tower and broken cloister a beauty scarcely less than that which belonged to them in their prime so human love may be at work too,
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 3 – Responsibility
‘Study to be quiet and mind your own business,’
Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 2 – The Doors of Light
Let us care for the weak-minded and insane, show compassion to the wretched, and hold sacred the suffering of humanity.
