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Show A Virtue of Courage. Many people are so afraid to die that they have never begun to live. But courage emancipates us and gives us to ourselves, that we may give ourselves our-selves freely and without fear to God. How sweet and clear and steady is the life irfto which this virtue enters day by day, not merely in those great flashes of excitement which come in tho moments of crisis, but in the presence pres-ence of the hourly perils, the continual conflicts. Not to tremble at the shadows which surround us, not to shrink from the foes who threaten us, not to hesitate and falter and stand despairing still among the perplexities and trials of our life, but to move steadily onward without fear, if only we can keep ourselves our-selves without reproach surely that is what the psalmist meant by good courage and strength of heart, and it is a most comfortable, pleasant, peaceful peace-ful and happy virtue. |
