INSTRUMENT OF THY PEACE

by Alan Paton ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This brief devotional work offers twenty-one meditations based on the familiar prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. The author is the noted novelist and advocate of racial justice in South Africa. Only by offering himself as an instrument in God's hand can a Christian encounter hatred, injury, despair, and sadness, throw off his feeling of helplessness, and be made a bearer of love, pardon, hope, and comfort. The author develops this theme with simplicity, clearness, and the unmistakable force of personal testimony. He draws widely for supportive materials -- the Bible, the Little Flowers, and devotional classics, as well as incidents from contemporary events. But the moving power of the book comes from the reader's apprehending that what is written comes out of Alan Paton's own struggle to be the instrument he seeks to describe. To be ranked with Dag Hammarskjold's Markings as a modern devotional classic, this book should win a wide reading.

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Publisher: Seabury

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION