THE FOUR POINTS OF THE COMPASS 

The earliest statement of the aims of Toc H was drawn up by Tubby Clayton, the Rev 'Dick' Sheppard of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Patterson early in 1920. It was revised in 1936 and again in 1967, to read as follows:

1. FRIENDSHIP: To love widely.

To provide members with opportunities to develop a spirit of understanding and reconciliation.

Members are called on:-

To welcome all in friendship,
To lessen by habit of thought, word and deed the prejudices which divide people,
To see the needs of others as their own.

2. SERVICE: To build bravely.

To enable members, with their varying gifts, to serve their fellows.

Members are called on:-

To give personal service,
To study local and international conditions and their effect on others, and by their example to challenge their neighbours to seek the way of Christ.

3. FAIRMINDEDNESS: To think fairly.

To bring to members the knowledge and experience of others.

Members are called on:-

To listen always to the views of others,
To find their own convictions,
To influence public opinion so that conflict may be lessened by sympathetic and intelligent understanding.

4. THE KINGDOM OF GOD: To witness humbly.

To work for a better world through the example of friendship, service and fair-mindedness.

Members are called on:-

To acknowledge the spiritual nature of man,
To practise the Christian way of life,
To help the truth prevail.

Toc H has a significant role to play in the work of reconciliation, multiculturalism and religious co-operation.