God's Children: Day 77 readings from "Character And Conduct" - March 18
Readings for March 18 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.
James Russell Lowell, engraved by J.A.J. Wilcox, from the original crayon in the possession of Charles Eliot Norton, drawn by S.W. Rowse in 1855 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Russell_Lowell_-_1855.jpg
Readings for November 20 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.
"Causes of Thankfulness"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n341/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_324
Authors featured today:
Bishop Jeremy Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor
Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
George Herbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert
Image:
George Herbert (1593–1633) by Robert White (1645–1703)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Herbert.jpg
Readings for September 2 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.
"Unrequited Love"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n261/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_245
Authors featured today:
Mary Cholmondeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cholmondeley
Robert Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning
Book featured today:
"Red Pottage" by Mary Cholmondeley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Pottage_(novel)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Red%20Pottage
Image:
Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud c1888
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Browning_by_Herbert_Rose_Barraud_c1888.jpg
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
Image:
William Ewart Gladstone, 1892
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Ewart_Gladstone,_1892_(cropped).jpg
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
Image:
Photogravure of the British historian and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay by the French photographer Antoine Claudet
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Babington_Macaulay2.jpg
Reading for February 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.
"Endurance"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n61/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_43
Author featured today:
The Right Reverend Henry Phillpotts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Phillpotts
Image:
Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Phillpotts_NPG.jpg
Readings for December 10 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.
"A Happy Childhood"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n361/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_344
Authors featured today:
Mary Cholmondeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cholmondeley
Dr. John Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(physician,_born_1810)
Book featured today:
"Rab and His Friends and Other Papers" by John Brown
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45929/45929-h/45929-h.htm
Image:
John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882), Scottish physician and essayist
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Brown_b1810b.jpg
Readings for December 18 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.
"The Limit of Luxury"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n369/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_352
Authors featured today:
Canon Samuel Barnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(reformer)
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
St. Francis de Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales
Book featured today:
"The Service of God" by Canon Samuel Barnett
Image:
Canon Samuel Barnett
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Augustus_Barnett_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg
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
Reading for September 9 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.
"The Dead"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n269/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_252
Author featured today:
Christina Rossetti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
Image:
Portrait of Christina Rossetti
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christina_Rossetti_3.jpg