A Library Of Resources For Spiritual Growth
In her Glimpses of the Past, Miss Elizabeth Wordsworth tells of a visit that she paid to Mrs. Selwyn, the widow of the great Dr. Selwyn, the pioneer Bishop of New Zealand. Miss Wordsworth began to talk a little dismally about the world and his wife—shocking sinners, both of them!
‘Ah, my dear,’ replied the gentle old lady, ‘you must sow a little hopeseed! The Bishop was a great believer in sowing hopeseed. There’s Faith, you know, and Hope and Charity,’ ticking each of them off on her soft wrinkled fingers as she spoke. ‘Well, we say a great deal about Faith, and a great deal about Charity; but poor Hope, somehow, gets left out in the cold!’…And the best of sowing hopeseed is that it will take root anywhere. Unlike the seed in the parable, you may sow it by the wayside, or on the stony places, or among the thorns; it does not matter. Hopeseed will flourish in any soil.
The Three Half-Moons - F.W. Boreham
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