The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-08-15

''Intrepidity is always calm and cir
curnspect, realizing fully all the danger,
yet walking BY faith in the conscious dis
charge of an imperative duty, risks a
Thousand perilS and overcnmes them ALL
This Is he quality which Away dis
tingmshes the courage of the wise from
the foolhardness of the rash.
Rage can make Il coward forget him
self and fight
| Il hat was not courage which led the
Franciscan and Greek priests to fight in
the church of the Holy Sepulchre at
Jerusalem, as to which community had
the right to sweep the church. This
collision was simply the outcome of angry
passions and unworthy of the protested
followers of the Prince of Peace
! Peter before the Resurrection, over
come by fear, denied his Master, but after
his faith had been strengthened by the
all-suflicient sacrifice he became the
boldest of the apostles and typifed the
rock upon which the church was to be
built
Paul, after he had heard in the streets
of Damascus, saul, why persecutest
thou me p became the greatest of Christ
ian warriors, fighting the good fight and
finishing his course in stripes and i'm
prisOnment and died in the unfatering
conviction that faithful is lie that
calleth you, who will also do it"
This is the courage which incites emu
lation and of which man need not be
ashamed
"One of the noblest types of hero is lie
who can accept defeat and disaster with
submission to the Divine Will and can
bow his head to the overwhelming power
OF superior force with manly resignation,
suhduing his own pride in the desire TO
put an end to the sacrifice of human lite
The farewell of Gen. Robert E Lee to
his army IN April, 1860, presents thepor-
traiture of such hero.
After four years of arduous service,
marked by unsurpassed courage and
tortitude. the Army of Northern Virginia
has been compelled to Yield to over
whelming numbers and resources. |
need not tell the survivors of SD many
hard-fought battles, who have remained
steadfast to the last, that have consent
ed to this result from no distru<t of
them, but feeling that valor and devotion
could accomplish nothing that could
compensate for the loss that would have
attended the continuation Of the contest
have determined to avoid the useless
sacrifice OF those whose past services have
endcared them to their countrymen.
"On parallel lines can be read the his
tory OF the marvellous struggle of the
Beers, from their magnificent battle at
MaJuba, years ago, where they were
victorious over the outnumbcring British
troopers and against the "up-to-date'
arms in the hands of their advcrsarics,
down to the period when, following the
example of the peerless Lee" their great
leaders accepted the situation of the con-
quered and laid down their arms after
your heroic stand against foe over
in numbersand with apparently
eXhauStleSs means, To patriotic Ameri-
can the downfall of the South American
Republic is a sorrow, but the grand de-
tense of that people furnishes noble ex-
ample of sublime courage and remarkable
endurance.
Man does not possess monopoly of
true courage, for it is an attribute of the
best types of womanhood.
"Drusilla, the wife of PLATE, that brave
lady, had the courage of her convictions
when she warned her husband to have
leIther part nor lot i'll the sacrifice of the
Master. Such types have appeared i'll
history, ancient and modern. and no
more beautiful description of this can be
ound than that the poet has given us in
he touching lines to the Brave at
lone"
The wife who girds her husbands sword,
Mid little ones. who weep and wonder:
And bravely speaks the cheering word
What. though her heart be rent asundcr-
Doomed. nightly, in her dreams to hear
The bolts of war around him rattle,
Has shed as sacred blood a Ger
Was poured upon the field of battle