Arizona republican., 1921-10-17

lie who goes 10 lne ScdI1Olu with bravado and blasphemy upon his lips. He may not finch or tremble or cry out in agony He may be perfectly stolid in the acceptance of his Just punishment, but it is not courage of a high kind that sustains him. There is no moral quality. He may fear nothing, but he dies as he has lived like a cruel beast.
 There may be the highest kind of courage, on the other hand, found in the man who knows all the dangers that beset him, who fears in his heart, whose refined and spiritual nature is thoroughly alive to all to all that he must endure in pain and in sorrow and in loneliness, physical, mental and spiritual, and yet does not shirk his duty but faces it squarely, entirely. What moral cour- age is seen in the man who is will ing to face the disapproval of his friends. who knows that he will lose the good will of his fellowmen, per haps have to sacrifice fortune and all else that he holds dear, in order that he may not violate what his own conscience demands of him.
 The early ages of Christianity are full of such stories and christian courage has not departed in our modern life as we discover when we read the lives of such men and women as David Livingstone, Father Damien and Chinese Gordon, Flor ence Nightingale and Sister Dora. No hero and saint in the olden days, no Athanasius or Francis of Assist or Saint Elizabeth surpassed them in uplifting and noble moral courage.
 But let me speak Of the need of in ha ffa of life on a less conspicuous plane. not visible, perhaps. to the eyes of others, but which God demands of us who are not called, perhaps. to mighty sacrifices and great deeds like these. We must not appreciate nor underestimate the courage that i is displayed by many men and wom- en in the ordinary routine of sick ness, of suffering. of disappointment. ! of loneliness. of loss. The courage here displayed may not be less ac- | ceptable to the Great Father who un- ! derstands the anguish and the fear of the human heart which has not 10 l cheer and encourage it the conscious i ness of a great and heroic sacrifice i that is bringing redemption, perhaps, | to multitudes of fellow men. 1 mean | the simple and pathetic tragedies Of f many a man and woman's life, hero i ically met, silently and unnoted save ! by few. It is cowardice here that | will prove fatal to the higher life of ] the soul, and it is christian courage | here that will ennoble and gain the { victory.
 Here is a man who has worked hard and honestly all his life to care | for those whom he loves, and for C modest livelihood to sustain him in 1 his old age, and all his little fortune ! is swept away through no fault of l his own, and perhaps his occupation i is gone forever, but he does not com plain, he does not grow bitter and hard, but he bravely faces his tria 1 and works on, and hopes on with faith and courage in his heart. Here i is a person in the fullness of youth and strength struck down by pain and sickness which must las- during l all the long and weary years that stretch out in the unknown future The demon of despair and of unbeliei 1 is knocking at the door of that mans l heart to enter in, but he will no listen. He finds himself no longer
 able to take his place by the side | of the workers of the earth. H, l has learned that hard lesson, taugh
 nobly by Milton in his great sonnet | "They also serve who only stand anC
 wait" but he does learn it. and Goo
 adds to his faith, courage.
 Here is another man who face,
 the disappointments of life in many
 varied line His friends fail him
 His ambitions and hopes are broker into fragments. He attains no sue.
 cess in life; perhaps the opportunity
 for education. which he craved early
 in life, was denied him; perhaps hr
 has to live practically an exile in ar 1 uncongenial atmosphere among low
 and cordid conditions of life, whicl
 nothing beautiful or inspiring in hi
 daily life. It would be easy to CUTS,
 God and to die, as the patriarch o
 old was tempted to do in the gra,
 dawn of human history when h,
 grappled with mystery of pain an,
 sorrow, but. like Job, he can lear1
 the truth of a courageous faith an,
 still trust in God even though H,
 slay him.
 To such high faith and courage tn, , revelation of Gods eternal love wil i surely come, and the evelastin; arms will bear him up.
 To the mother, bereft of her chil
 dren. with loneliness in her heart anC
 the mother hunger unsatisfied: t the disappointed hopes in the live
 of her children, who, more tragi
 still. turn into iSnoble paths and be tray and cruelty the parental love to all the common and natural traCe i, dies of human Hfs there comes tLr