Alexander Heriot Mackonochie a Memoir
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' He had never with youthful assurance looked upon happiness as a right, nor offered up to it in vain propitiatory sacrifice the claims of duty or of conscience. Referring to temporal anxiety, he writes : The only way to escape from that anxiety and be calm, is to be as the captain at the helm in a tempest. We all know that our course in life is beset with stormy winds and waves and sunken rocks which may in one form or another make shipwreck of our dearest interests in a moment (I do not mean ...spiritual interests, which can never be wrecked except by our own consent), but we can steer on, making as sure as we can by God's help of 1 88 ALEXANDER HE RIOT MACKONOCHIE the Tightness of our course, using to the utmost the skill and energy which He gives, and then, 'having done all to stand. ' The metaphor is somewhat characteristic. He was emphatically the captain of his own ship, never anxious to shift a responsibility which was rightfully his own on to other people's shoulders.
Through all the worries and anxieties by which his life was beset (writes one of his friends), at times too when all the world around him was feeling and saying how much depended on what Mackonochie should do, he never for a moment lost his head, or did anything but what he saw cleady to be the right thing for him to do, and because it tvas the right thing, without any regard to consequences whatever.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' He had never with youthful assurance looked upon happiness as a right, nor offered up to it in vain propitiatory sacrifice the claims of duty or of conscience. Referring to temporal anxiety, he writes : The only way to escape from that anxiety and be calm, is to be as the captain at the helm in a tempest. We all know that our course in life is beset with stormy winds and waves and sunken rocks which may in one form or another make shipwreck of our dearest interests in a moment (I do not mean ...spiritual interests, which can never be wrecked except by our own consent), but we can steer on, making as sure as we can by God's help of 1 88 ALEXANDER HE RIOT MACKONOCHIE the Tightness of our course, using to the utmost the skill and energy which He gives, and then, 'having done all to stand. ' The metaphor is somewhat characteristic. He was emphatically the captain of his own ship, never anxious to shift a responsibility which was rightfully his own on to other people's shoulders.
Through all the worries and anxieties by which his life was beset (writes one of his friends), at times too when all the world around him was feeling and saying how much depended on what Mackonochie should do, he never for a moment lost his head, or did anything but what he saw cleady to be the right thing for him to do, and because it tvas the right thing, without any regard to consequences whatever.
What to read after Alexander Heriot Mackonochie a Memoir?
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