Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion

THIS BOOK WRITTEN IN WAR-TIME TO MINISTER COMFORT AND IF IT MAY BE TO REINFORCE HOPE AND FAITH IS DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO SIR JOHN R. JELLICOE G.C.B., K.C.V.O. ADMIRAL OF THE GRAND FLEET

Chapters

7. Part 7

When John Wesley was on his way home from Georgia, he wrote this record of the voyage in his Journal:--"Being sorrowful and very heavy (though I could give no particular reason...

5. Part 5

And we have, as has been pointed out, interesting indirect proof as to what manner of life He lived on those workaday levels that we all know so much about. For, to this Carpent...

6. Part 6

It is a well-known fact that a man may be truly courageous, acting, speaking, thinking bravely at the very moment when panic fears are gripping his heart. I like that fine old s...

4. Part 4

Life presents us with many anomalies that refuse to square with our theories. You find men exhibiting qualities of character, which any Christian might be proud to emulate, outs...

3. Part 3

But what fills one with reverent admiration is that so many of those whose hearts we know have been so cruelly wounded have set up a new and noble precedent in the matter of cou...

8. Part 8

The same principle holds true also with regard to Influence. It is natural that a man should desire that his shadow when it falls on others should heal and not hurt. But the hea...

9. Part 9

Men have sometimes asked what that childhood of the Kingdom is on which Jesus laid so much stress, and some have taken it to mean renunciation of intellect and reason in favour...

1. Part 1

THIS BOOK WRITTEN IN WAR-TIME TO MINISTER COMFORT AND IF IT MAY BE TO REINFORCE HOPE AND FAITH IS DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO SIR JOHN R. JELLICOE G.C.B., K.C.V.O. ADMIRAL OF THE...

2. Part 2

But, you say, this is just faith. I know it is. Run your hopes for yourself up as high as you can reach, and they will touch God and become faith. That is why you are to hope th...