CharacterAndConduct

Reading for September 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. "Trustees" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n281/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_264 Author featured today: Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "Christian Social Union Addresses" by Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott Image: Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, circa 1890 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooke_Foss_Westcott_NPG.jpg

Readings for September 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. "The Christian Law" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n279/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_263 Author featured today: Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "Christian Social Union Addresses" by Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott Image: Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, circa 1890 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooke_Foss_Westcott_NPG.jpg

Reading for September 19 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 Christian Law" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n279/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_262 Author featured today: Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "Christian Social Union Addresses" by Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott Image: Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, circa 1890 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooke_Foss_Westcott_NPG.jpg

Readings for September 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. "Pure Religion" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n277/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_261 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) H. W. Thomas, likely Hiram Washington Thomas https://prabook.com/web/hiram_washington.thomas/1098191 Book featured today: "The Greatest Thing In The World" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.470208/ Image: Ian Maclaren, pseudonym of Rev. John Watson (3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907), Scottish author and theologian https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Maclaren_001.jpg

Reading for September 17 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 Meaning of Religion" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n277/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_260 Author featured today: Graham Balfour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Balfour Book featured today: "The Life Of Robert Louis Stevenson" https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.235428 Image: Graham Balfour https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham_Balfour_jr.jpg

Reading for September 16 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. "Bearing Sorrow" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n275/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_259 Author featured today: Canon Henry Scott Holland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Holland Image: Carbon print of Henry Scott Holland by The Church Agency, published by Eglington & Co., ca. late 1880s to mid-1890s https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw162920

Reading for September 15 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. "Bearing Sorrow" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n275/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_259 Author featured today: Canon Henry Scott Holland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Holland Image: Carbon print of Henry Scott Holland by The Church Agency, published by Eglington & Co., ca. late 1880s to mid-1890s https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw162920

Readings for September 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. "Bearing Sorrow" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n273/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_257 Author featured today: Canon Henry Scott Holland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Holland Image: Carbon print of Henry Scott Holland by The Church Agency, published by Eglington & Co., ca. late 1880s to mid-1890s https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw162920

Readings for September 13 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. "Bearing Sorrow" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n273/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_256 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: George Eliot (1819-1880), aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-1886), whose family she lived with while in Switzerland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg

Readings for September 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. "Life after Death" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n271/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_255 Authors featured today: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Anna Laetitia Barbauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Laetitia_Barbauld Book featured today: "Alfred Lord Tennyson A Memoir By His Son" by Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tennyson%20a%20Memoir Image: Portrait of poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Barbauld.gif

Reading for September 11 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. "Crossing the Bar" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n271/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_254 Author featured today: Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Image: Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Tennyson..jpg

Reading for September 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. "Death" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n269/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_253 Author featured today: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr. Book featured today: "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes https://archive.org/search.php?query=holmes%20professor%20breakfast%20table Image: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.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

Reading for September 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. "The Dead" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n267/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_251 Author featured today: John Greenleaf Whittier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier Image: John Greenleaf Whittier https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Greenleaf_Whittier_BPL_ambrotype,_c1840-60-crop.jpg

Reading for September 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. "The Dead" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n267/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_250 Author featured today: James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Image: James Russell Lowell in 1855, engraved by J.A.J. Wilcox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Russell_Lowell_-_1855.jpg

Readings for September 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. "The Dead" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n265/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_ Authors featured today: Mathilde Blind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_Blind Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Image: Mathilde Blind https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mathilde_Blind.jpg

Readings for September 5 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. "Death of Young Children" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n265/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_248 Authors featured today: Richard Chenevix Trench https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chenevix_Trench Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Books featured today: "On an Early Death" by Richard Chenevix Trench http://www.blackcatpoems.com/t/on_an_early_death.html "The Potter's Wheel" by Rev. Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/potterswheel00maclgoog Image: Drawing of Richard Chenevix Trench, December 1, 1863, by John Richardson Jackson (1819–1877) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_Richard_Chenevix_Trench.jpg

Readings for September 4 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. "Bereavement II" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_247 Authors featured today: William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Book featured today: "Alfred Lord Tennyson A Memoir By His Son" by Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tennyson%20a%20Memoir Image: William Makepeace Thackeray by Jesse Harrison Whitehurst https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Makepeace_Thackeray_by_Jesse_Harrison_Whitehurst-crop.jpg

Readings for September 3 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. "Bereavement" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_246 Authors featured today: William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray William Penn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn Book featured today: "The Newcomes" by William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newcomes https://archive.org/search.php?query=The%20Newcomes Image: William Penn https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamPenn.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 September 1 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 I" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n261/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_244 Author featured today: May Kendall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Kendall Image: From "Faithful unto Death" by Sir Edward John Poynter, 1865, based on this event described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii" https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261905/page/n455/mode/2up?q=the+roman+sentry "The air was now still for a few minutes: the lamp from the gate streamed out far and clear: the fugitives hurried on—they gained the gate—they passed by the Roman sentry; the lightning flashed over his livid face and polished helmet, but his stern features were composed even in their awe! He remained erect and motionless at his post. That hour itself had not animated the machine of the ruthless majesty of Rome into the reasoning and self-acting man. There he stood, amidst the crashing elements: he had not received the permission to desert his station and escape."

Readings for August 31 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. "Love" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n259/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_243 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Elizabeth Barrett Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning Book featured today: "The Mind of the Master" by Rev. Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning.jpg

Readings for August 30 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. "Dissension" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n259/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_242 Author featured today: Thomas Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore Book featured today: "Lalla Rookh" by Thomas Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html Image: Thomas Moore (1779-1852 after a painting by Thomas Lawrence https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Moore,_after_Thomas_Lawrence.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Love and Remorse" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n257/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_241 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Coventry Patmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Patmore Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Portrait of Coventry Patmore, by John Singer Sargent, 1894 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Coventry_Patmore.jpg

Readings for August 28 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. "Love and Remorse" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n257/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_240 Authors featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot J. R. Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Miller Book featured today: "Personal Friendships of Jesus" by J. R. Miller https://archive.org/search.php?query=Personal%20Friendships%20of%20Jesus&and[]=subject%3A%22Jesus+Christ%22 Image: George Eliot (1819-1880), aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-1886), whose family she lived with while in Switzerland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg