{"id":3020,"date":"2023-10-13T17:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:53:26","slug":"blog-october-13th-putting-the-other-guy-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Blog October 13th Putting the other guy first"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently read this in the \u201cWord For Today\u201d and thought it well worth sharing.
\nRalph Waldo Emerson said, \u2018There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn\u2019t matter who gets the credit.\u2019 Most people know about Isaac Newton\u2019s famed encounter with a falling apple; how he introduced the law of universal gravitation and revolutionised astronomical studies. But few people know that had it not been for a man called Edmond Halley, the world may never have heard of Newton. Halley was the one who urged Newton to think through his original theories, corrected his mathematical mistakes, and formulated geometrical figures to support his discoveries. It was Halley who persuaded a hesitant Newton to write his great work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. And it was Halley who edited and supervised its publication and financed its printing, even though Newton was wealthier and could better have afforded the cost.
\nHistorians have called Halley\u2019s affiliation with Newton one of the most selfless cases in science. Newton began almost immediately to reap the rewards of prominence, but Halley received little credit. He did use the principles Newton established to forecast the orbit and return of a comet that would later bear his name. But since Halley\u2019s Comet returns only every seventy-six years, relatively few people still hear his name. However, Halley didn\u2019t care who got the credit as long as the cause of science was advanced. He personified what it means to live by this scriptural principle: \u2018Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves.\u2019 Anytime God gives you an opportunity to put others first and yourself second, grab it and run with it.<\/p>\n

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Yours Is A Jealous Love featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard from the album Precious recorded and produced by Ross Gill. I recently read this in the \u201cWord For Today\u201d and thought it well worth sharing. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u2018There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn\u2019t matter who gets the credit.\u2019 Most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}