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Simple Duty Hath No Place for Fear

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 13, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 23.

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Simple Duty Hath No Place for Fear

No man need fear aught of the ills of earth if he is only where duty calls. When the darkness spread over the day of May 19, 1780, and men thought the end of the world had come, the Connecticut Legislature was in session. One member moved that the assembly adjourn; but Abraham Davenport rose and said that whether it was the Lord's great day or not, he would be found doing his duty, and so he moved that candles be brought and the house proceed to business. "Simple duty hath no place for fear."