Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher — John Shaqi
Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord FisherFisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron
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Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron
Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron, 1841-1920; Great Britain. Royal Navy
And I conclude that in the last stage of life, as pointed out so very
decisively by Dr. Weir Mitchell (that great American), “the brain
becomes its best,” and so we rearrange our hearts and minds to the
great advantage of our own Heaven and the avoidance of Hell to others!
“Resentment” I find to fade away, and it merges into the feeling of
Commiseration! (“Poor idiots!” one says instead of “D--n ’em!”) But
I can’t arrive as yet at St. Paul, who deliberately writes that he’s
quite ready to go to Hell so as to let his enemy go to Heaven! You’ve
got really to be a real Christian to say that! I’ve not the least
doubt, however, that John Wesley, Bishop Jeremy Taylor and Robertson
of Brighton felt it surely! Isn’t it odd that those three great saints
(fit to be numbered “with these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job,”
Ezekiel, Chapter xiv., verse 14) each of them should have a “nagging”
wife!
Their Home was Hell!
And I’ve searched in vain for any one of the three saying a word to the
detriment of the other sex! They might all have been Suffragettes! (St.
Paul does indeed say that he preferred being single! But Peter was
married!)
But this “Resentment” section hinges entirely on “Charity” as defined
and exemplified by Mr. Robertson, of Brighton, in one of the best of
his wonderful Trinity Chapel Sermons.
DEAN INGE
I heard the Dean of St. Paul’s (Dr. Inge) preach in Westminster Abbey
on the 17th Chapter of St. Matthew, verse 19: “Then came the disciples
to Jesus apart, and said, ‘Why could not we cast him out?’”
The sermon was really splendiferous!
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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