God’s Heroes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 21, 1904

There is a yet harder and higher heroism to live well in the quiet routine of life; to fill a little space because God wills it; to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties, little vocations; to accept unmurmuringly a low position; to smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching; to banish all ambition, all pride, and all restlessness in a single regard to our Saviour’s work. To do this for a lifetime is a greater effort, and he who does this is a greater hero than he who for one hour storms a breach, or for one day rushes onward undaunted in the flaming front of shot and shell. His works will follow him. He may not be a hero to the world; but he is one of God’s heroes; and, though the builders of Nineveh and Babylon be forgotten and unknown, his memory shall live and be blessed.—Canon Farrar.