p. 14 | Every-Day Heroism by St. Louis Christian Advocate

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

Every-Day Heroism

By St. Louis Christian Advocate

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 missionary 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 of 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. Such a life honors Christ, and He honors such a life, as the most convincing evidence of the power of Christ that the world can know.—St. Louis Christian Advocate.

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