Show CO COURAGE DRAGE I S B BY LOND ON OX CARTER Strange to SA say that although the word courage Involves so 10 many different different dif dif- ferent brent moral qualities Its almost universal universal universal uni uni- versal usage Is applied to physical bravery whereas the tho greatest truest and noblest courage Is always tempered tempered tem tern with gentleness Justice and merc mercy mercy and and and so far from these qualities quaIl quaIl- ties les being effeminate rather may It Ito bo be o said that tho the bravery of or manhood Is s Incomplete without them A lack of ot physical fear do does docs s not constitute bravery bra for a ruffian may possess that but In the recognition and pursuance of or ones one's higher duties towards ones one's fellow men oblivious men Ious of or sel Interest then indeed tho the heart must dictate and there was never nc a aheart heart icart without gentleness At times there here Is moro more courage In a cheerful smile mile than titan an angry angry- frown and In self control than unrestrained passion Many lany a tL so-called so brave man has light light- almost ly-almost y almost carelessly faced carelessly faced the terrors terrors ter ter- ors of ot war and yet perhaps that same man may avoid g giving a direct answer t to a pertinent question or express express ex ex- ex- ex press q his Inward moral convictions for fear ear of of ot opposition and by such forms of f coward cowardice e have hae many principles needlessly waned whereas through moral courage might have forever for for- vcr ever been unquestionably established Not long since Mr Ir Walker In n citing cling cli cit cit- In ing ng differences of bravery wrote that during tho the revolution In France Franca there thero were men and many of them who did id no dare sot themselves In to the dictation dictation of ot their class though lough they havo saved France Prance by y a time timely exhibition of ot their beliefs belles and yet et later those thosa same men marched marched march march- ed from the prison to the tho guillotine with a lIght heartedness and Insouciance Insouciance insouciance ance that showed physical courage o oi of tho the highest type typo and nd so confusing contusinG and paradoxical at times seem these contradictions contradictions contradictions con con- that one almost wonders what the word courage really means Another clever cleer Incidence was exhibited exhibit exhibit- ed in on on one of ot Lifes Life's cartoons which t shows a 11 tamer lion who who has returned home homo at a n late hour and fears to encounter encounter encounter en en- counter his spouse so he went to his lions lion's cage case for his nights night's rest and being discovered later the wife lookIng lookIng look- look Ing lag through tho the bars of the cage exclaimed exclaimed ex ox- claimed Oh you ou coward It is precisely the tho men who In moments of or importance will shift shUt their positions and contradict themselves themselves them them- selves sel suddenly everything Is easier to them than the moral courage to face tho the fact tact of or failure and acknowledge e themselves defeated Just as moral attainments tire are more desirable than physical ones so also does It require proportionately higher courage to bravely bra accept misfortune and perhaps false pride is the most bitterly powerful form of or cowardice for b by It the happiness of or numerous homes have haye been wrecked aud and the tile depths of which suffering would Invariably Inva mm- I be less keen and fr frequently I could have ha been beon averted were thero there ohly only sufficient moral courage to to- in incite incite In- In cite hon honesty st for principles principle's ml sake o rather rath rath- er ez than The distinction between mor moral l and ph physical bravery emphasizes izes the greatest greatest great great- est st difference neo between the animal kingdom m and Jho tho human race race race-civili- civili civilization ration and i m it and S vulgarity |