Courage | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 3, 1866

Courage.

WHEN Latimer was royal chaplain, he one day exclaimed, at the beginning of his sermon, “Latimer, Latimer, thou art going to speak before the high and mighty king Henry VIII, who is able, if he think fit, to take thy life away. Be careful what thou sayest. But Latimer, Latimer, remember also thou art about to speak before the King of kings and Lord of lords. Take heed that thou dost not displease Him.”

At a later period, when the bishops presented to the king their customary new year's gifts, while others brought rich and brilliant offerings, Latimer presented a New Testament, with the leaves folded and marked at the words, “Fornicatores et adulteros judicabit Dominus.” (Heb. xiii, 4.) He was the only man in England who had the sublime daring to speak the plain truth to that king, whose presence shed trouble and terror over the proudest spirits.