A work from 1960. Later in life he seems to have become a fairly conventional Christian with anti-urban pastoral yearnings.
Leaves from the Tree of Life or Fruits of Experience.
A few quotations:
In the way of God it is not necessary to read or write. What is of paramount importance is that we should at all times listen most attentively to the promptings of conscience, the small sweet Voice that tells us quite clearly when we ignore it. Study of the scriptures or any eloquent sermon will avail nought unless we listen to that Voice.
Giving a toy to a baby is the way to make a baby look outside himself for happiness. Babies show their contempt for it by throwing it away, but fond parents pick it up again!
Only the poor know how to give for they know what it means to lack.
If we cannot be content with a little, we will not be content with a lot either. It is not the quantity but the outlook which is the deciding factor.
Anti-city, pro-country sentiments -'man creeps about in his cities, ignoring his destiny and his duty, blinded by the worship of self to such an extent that he does not know why he has been born.His brain is swollen; his heart shrivelled up...God help us!
Bookride notes '...Oyler went on to live a long life as an educationalist, Utopian, 'New Lifer', country writer and 'Prophet of the Soil.' ... Tim D'Arch Smith, in the revised edition of his excellent work 'The Books of the Beast' has a chapter on Dr. Trelawney ('thaumaturge and seer')
