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Christian Courage

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 2.

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Christian Courage

Chrysostom before the Roman emperor furnishes us with a most impressive and beautiful example of true Christian courage. The emperor threatened him with banishment if he would still remain a Christian.
Chrysostom replied, “Thou canst not, for the world is my Father's mansion,—thou canst not banish me.”
“But I will slay thee,” said the emperor.
“Nay, but thou canst not,” said the noble champion of the faith again: “for my life is hid with Christ in God.”
“I will take away thy treasures.”
“Nay, that thou canst not,” was the retort; “for, in the first place, I have none that thou knowest of. My treasure is in Heaven, and my heart is there.”
“But I will drive thee away from man, and thou shalt have no friend left.”
“Nay, and that thou canst not,” once more said the faithful witness; “for I have a friend in Heaven, from whom thou canst not separate me. I defy thee. There is nothing thou canst do to hurt me.”