The Heroism of Everyday Faithfulness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 16, 1911

The Heroism of Everyday Faithfulness

It calls for more real heroism to be true to Christ and his standards in our ordinary, every-day life, than to stand the test of physical martyrdom for Christ in a foreign mission field. To be confronted with the opportunity of dying for our faith is a challenge that usually calls out the best in us. Merely to face the opportunity of living for our faith, and that in what seem to us the commonplace, uninteresting circumstances of a humdrum home or business life, year after year, with no great change in prospect, does not seem like a challenge to heroism at all. For this very reason, it is the more a challenge. Endurance is more heroic than a spurt; it takes endurance to live the Christ-life for thirty, forty, sixty years of uneventful service. —Baptist Recorder.*