Philip Bennett Power
Reverend Philip Bennett Power (1822-1899) was a prolific writer of evangelical tracts. He was born in Waterford in Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, then ordained. He moved to England, and began a career as a clergyman first in Leicester, then in London with two years at Holloway followed by seven as the incumbent of Woburn Chapel. He was the vicar of Christ Church for ten years. He published over a hundred collections of short religious tracts and individual longer tracts between 1864 and 1894. His works include: The Last Shilling; or, The Selfish Child: A Story Founded on Fact (1853), Breathings of the Soul (1855), 'I Will': The Determinations of the Man of God, as Found in Some of the 'I Wills' of the Psalms (1859), The Lost Sunbeam, the Shady Tree, the Woven Sunbeams (1866), Born With a Silver Spoon in His Mouth (1870), 'He's Overhead' (1871), The Oiled Feather (1871), The Feet of Jesus in Life, Death, Resurrection, and Glory (1872) and The One Moss-Rose (1872)
“The daily circumstances of life will afford us opportunities enough of glorifying God in trust, without our waiting for any extraordinary calls upon faith, our faith. Let us remember that the extraordinary circumstances of life are but few; that much of life may slip past without their occurrence; and that if we be not faithful and trusting in that which is little, we are not likely to be so in that which is great... Let our trust be reared in the humble nursery of our own daily experience, with its ever recurring little wants and trials, and sorrows; and then, when need be, it will come forth, to do such great things as are required of it.”