SIGNED - When I Awake: Thoughts on the Keeping of the Morning Watch by Jack C. Winslow

This is a soft cover book titled When I Awake: Thoughts on the Keeping of the Morning Watch by Jack C. Winslow. This book has been signed by the author Jack C. Winslow on the title page.

The book was originally published in 1938. This printing of the book is a Revised Edition from 1957. This book was published by Hodder and Stoughton in London.

The book When I Awake, features this statement on the inside of the front cover: “I AM CONSTANTLY asked to give, or find myself needing to give, simple instruction about how to keep what some call a "quiet time" and others a "morning watch" with God. I try to tell them as well as I can out of my own experience, but I have felt the need of of a book which would cover a rather wide ground within reasonably small compass, and treat the matter simply enough for people not far advanced in the spiritual life ...

'This is a simple book for simple people; and, as such, I hope that it may serve some useful purpose for the glory of God and the advance of His Kingdom.'

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Jack C. Winslow was a prolific Oxford Group writer on Oxford Group principles. He is also the author of the book titled “Why I Believe In the Oxford Group.” Winslow’s writings were recommended in Sam Shoemaker’s Calvary Evangel. 

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Here you can read the entire Introduction to learn more about this book:

This books aims, however imperfectly, at meeting a very practical need. I am constantly asked to give, or find myself needing to give, simple instruction about how to keep what some call a " quiet time" and others a "morning watch" with God. I try to tell them as well as I can out of my own experience, but I have felt the need of a book which would cover a rather wide ground within reasonably small compass, and treat the matter simply enough for people not far advanced in the spiritual life. It is this need which I have tried to meet.

The scope of the book is strictly limited. This must be borne in mind by those who might have wished instruction to be given, for example, about public worship or the Holy Communion. I am dealing here solely with the time of private prayer which it is essential all Christians should keep, morning by morning, if they desire to go forward in the Christian life.

I have based what I have to say largely upon my own experience. I have tried in fact to weave together the three main strands of that experience into a continuous pattern. First, there are the things which I learnt about prayer in my earlier days, particularly from my own parents (which was the foundation of all else), from my London Vicar and friend, H. P. Cronshaw, and from John R. Mott's Mission at Oxford, to which I have referred in the opening chapter.

Secondly, there is all that I learned over a period of twenty years from my contact with India and its great mystical tradition. This was an immense enrichment of my own spiritual life, as it became woven gradually into the texture of my earlier experience.

Thirdly, there is the great debt I owe to the Oxford Group, through which I have learnt much during the last few years, particularly with regard to what I have called "the prayer of attention," and the waiting upon God with confident expectation for definite and concrete guidance. This new element has also become interwoven now with the earlier teaching and experience; and I have tried to set forth in this book the connected design which these different strands have formed together.

There is in this book nothing recondite or learned; nor is there any attempt to guide those who are able to climb to the more exalted heights of the prayer life. For these things I should be quite incompetent. This is a simple book for simple people; and, as such, I hope that it may serve some useful purpose for the glory of God and the advance of His Kingdom.

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The book is in good condition. It is fully intact with no torn or missing pages. There is no writing or markings inside the book other than the authors signature.

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