Unconquered after Defeat.
BECAUSE we have just failed is no reason for giving up. It is the more reason for not giving up. Speer tells of a boy who, preparing for Yale, saw a football game between Yale and Princeton, in which Yale won. He watched the Princeton men, after their team's defeat, singing and singing, cheering and cheering, and then marching in a great, solid mass, still singing and cheering, down into the city. After he had reached home the boy said to his father, "I believe I would like to go to Princeton." "But you know they got licked to-day." "O, yes, but they didn't know it. I would like to go to a college where they don't know when they are beaten." And Speer adds heartily, "If the game had gone the other way he would have seen the same thing in Yale," and then asks, "Shall men have less of the Spirit of Christ in their moral life?" A defeat by sin is not meant to be the end of the fight. It must not be, if we will only obey orders from the front. The Captain is never thru with a beaten man, unless the man turns deserter.—Sunday School Times.