Precept and Practice – AUGUST 4 – Old friends
Fellow Travellers.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness You feel, as I do, that the real tie lies in the feelings and expectations we have raised in other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no outward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulness. George Eliot Friend, if earthly violence or ill, Suspicion,… Continue reading Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 2 – Plain Dealing
Sincerity seems our only security against losing those who love us, the only cup in which those who are worth keeping will care to pledge us when youth is past.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 1 – The Aim of Friendship
The aim of true friendship anywhere is not to make life easy for one’s friend, but to make something of the friend.
Precept and Practice – JULY 31 – The Language of Friends
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
Precept and Practice – JULY 30 – Comradeship
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Precept and Practice – JULY 29 – A dear Balm
Friendship is the forest to which we flee from the city of toil.
Precept and Practice – JULY 28 – Tyranny
Tyranny is always weakness.
Barnstormin’ Believers – A Sermon
The parable of the Rich Fool, and in fact the whole of Luke Chapter 12, is not about money, nor about bread, nor even about barns. It is about being, ‘rich towards God’ and so proving the faithfulness and loving kindness of God by living generous lives of active service. And being ever-ready to do so….
Precept and Practice – JULY 27 – By their Fruits ye shall Know them
Our friendships are often clouded, especially in youth, by want of sympathy from our own people.
