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Show Serenity. "The true religious man, amid all the ills of time, keeps a serene forehead fore-head and entertains a peaceful heart. This, going out and coming in amid all the trials of the city, the agony of the plague, the horrors of the thirsty tyrants, the fierce democracy abroad, the fiercer ill at home the saint, the sage of Athens, was still the same. Such a one can endure hardness; can stand alone and be content; a rock amid the waves lonely, but not moved. Around him the few or many may scream, calumniate, calum-niate, blaspheme. What is all to him but the cawing of the seabird about that solitary, deep-rooted stone?" Theodore Parker. |