BEAT A CHARGE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 38.

"BEAT A CHARGE."

WHEN Napoleon ordered his drummer boy to beat a retreat, he received the reply: "Oh, sire! Desaix never taught me that; but I can beat a charge—I can beat a charge that would make the dead fall into line!"

We want less talk about "retrenching," "discouragement," "failure," and more of something that is like the drummer boy's "charge," that will stir every heart, making the dead within the church and the dead without fall into line.—Selected.