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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 9.

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No Retreat.

Among the prisoners taken captive at Waterloo there was a Highland piper. Napoleon, struck with his mountain dress and sinewy limbs, asked him to play on his instrument, which is said to sound so delightfully in the mountains and glens in Scotland. “Play a pibroch,” said Napoleon, and the Highlander played. “Play a march,” it was done. “Play a retreat.” “Na, na,” said the Highlander; “I never learned to play a retreat!”
No retreat! should be emblazoned on the standard of every Christian warrior, as he goes forth to battle, “not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Eph. vi. 13. “Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.