Church motto
I'm currently reading An Enigmatic Life: David Broughton Knox—Father of Contemporary Sydney Anglicanism, a new biography of the man who was Principal of Moore College from 1959–1985 by Marcia Cameron. (For those interested, Matthias Media is also about to release the third volume of DBK's Selected Works.)
Broughton Knox's father, David Knox, was the minister in the Parish of Mill Hill. And I couldn't help noticing this comment in relation to his church in the early 1900's:
Morning and evening services had excellent attendances, there was regular open-air work and a Sunday school. It was a time of spiritual growth. David Knox's rather unusual motto for the parish was ‘A living dog is better than a dead lion’ (Ecclesiastes 9:4).
Now there's a motto you don't very often see these days out the front of the parish on church signs!