Moral Courage in Every-day Life.
HAVE the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it. Have the courage to speak your mind, when it is necessary you should do so, and to hold your tongue when it is prudent you should do so. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a "seedy" coat even though you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired. Have the courage to own you are poor, and thus disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Have the courage to tell a man why you will not lend him your money. Have the courage to "cut" the most agreeable acquaintance you have, when you are convinced that he lacks principle. "A friend should bear with a friend's infirmities," but not with his vices. Have the courage to wear old clothes until you can pay for the new ones. Have the courage to wear thick boots in winter, and insist upon your wife and daughters doing the same. Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion, in all things. Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance, rather than to seek credit for knowledge under false pretenses.—Sel. Have the courage to obey the truth as presented in the word of God—without reference to preconceived opinions, personal convenience, the prejudice of friends, or the tenets of a popular church. "IF I only had more faith," said a woman who was temporarily laid aside by an accident; "if I only had more faith, I should get well sooner." "Madam," said her physician, "patience is sometimes as great a virtue as faith." How often mountains of difficulty would as silently melt away before the gentleness of patience, as snow before the breath of summer's sunshine. NOT to the strong, but to the faithful, is it given to achieve the victories that endure.