Excerpt from The Glory in the Grey: Forty-Two Talks on Every-Day Life and Religion IT sometimes happens, when we are dispirited, that God's gracious gift of reviving comes to us along a very ordinary channel - in the form, perhaps, of some tonic, heartening passage found in reading, or the morning face and cheerful greeting of a friend. That is often all that we need - when our hurt is not serious - to send us back with. A new zest and courage to our tasks and that is the sort of usefulness which is desired for this book. It does not pretend to deal with the great themes or the great hours of the religious life, but only with some of its simple encouragements and ideals for every day. There is a wide differ ence between the far-off flash of guidance which the sailor steers by in the darkness, and the humbler lights on board by which he sees to do his work. Yet he needs them both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.