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Present Circumstances: Day 12 readings from "Character And Conduct" - January 12
Readings for January 12 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Present Circumstances"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n31/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_12
Authors featured today:
Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
James Martineau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martineau
Image:
James Martineau (1805-1900)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesMartineauOld.jpg
"Present Circumstances"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n31/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_12
Authors featured today:
Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
James Martineau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martineau
Image:
James Martineau (1805-1900)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesMartineauOld.jpg
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"Where Love is, God is"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n143/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_126
Authors featured today:
Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)
Frederick William Robertson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson
Book featured today:
"The Greatest Thing In The World" by Henry Drummond
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.470208/
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Frederick W. Robertson, Lithograph after C. J. Basebe, published by W. H. Mason, September 1853
https://sbpc.regencysociety.org/frederick-w-robertson/
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Readings for March 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Work—'To cure is the Voice of the Past'"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n83/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_67
John Ruskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin
Helen Bosanquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bosanquet
Kate Douglas Wiggin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Douglas_Wiggin
Books featured for March 8:
"The Queen of the Air" by John Ruskin
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12641/12641-h/12641-h.htm
"The Standard of Life" by Helen Bosanquet
https://archive.org/details/standardoflifeot00bosauoft
"Children's Rights" Kate Douglas Wiggin
https://archive.org/details/childrensrights00wigggoog
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Readings for August 7 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Friendship"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n235/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_219
Authors featured today:
Charlotte Brontë https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB
Thomas Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hughes
Hugh Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Black_(theologian)
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Charlotte Brontë, chalk, 1850
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Readings for March 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Invalids"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n105/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_89
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Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
George Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wilson_(chemist)
Frederic Farrar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Farrar
Book featured today:
"Memoir of George Wilson" https://archive.org/details/memoirgeorgewil00wilsgoog
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George Wilson
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Readings for January 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Triviality"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n47/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_29
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François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer)
George Fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox
Samuel Barnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(reformer)
Book featured today:
"The Service of God" by Canon Samuel Barnett
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George Fox, attributed to Peter Lely
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fox_by_Lely_2.jpg
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Readings for June 21 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Sound Judgment"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n189/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_172
Authors featured today:
Thomas Babington Macaulay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay
Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel
Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MacCunn%2C+John%2C+1846-1929%22
Book featured today:
"Amiel's Journal" Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm
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Photogravure of the British historian and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay by the French photographer Antoine Claudet
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Readings for October 14 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Self-examination"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n303/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_287
Authors featured today:
Seneca the Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger
Frederick William Robertson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson
Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain)
Book featured today:
"Life and Letters of Fred. W. Robertson, M.A." Edited by Stopford A. Brooke, M.A.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43957/page/n73/mode/2up?q=Resolves
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Portrait of Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832-1916)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stopford_Brooke_c1890_Hollyer.jpg
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Reading for October 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Prayer"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n297/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_281
Author featured today:
Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
Book featured today:
Daniel, Chapter 9, Verses 18 and 19
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Readings for February 6 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Time and Method"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n55/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_37
Authors featured today:
William Ewart Gladstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone
The second reading has no attribution, but can be found in "A book of modern prayers" compiled by Samuel McComb https://archive.org/details/MN40290ucmf_3/page/n149/mode/2up?q=%22There+is+no+rule+more+indispensable+to+success%22
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William Ewart Gladstone, 1892
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Ewart_Gladstone,_1892_(cropped).jpg
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