Not an Enemy in the World

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1857

"Not an Enemy in the World."

HASN'T! Well, we are sorry for him; for he has very little character who has no enemies. He is nobody who has not got pluck enough to get an enemy. Give us rather, as our ideal of virtue and manliness, one who has made them by his manhood, and downright sincerity, candor and fearless love of the thing he sees to be right. The man of earnest purposes, strong will, and love of principle, for its own sake, may have enemies. But this, so far from being ill, is to him a good. The strong tree is more deeply rooted and fastened in the soil by the blast than the Summer breeze. A man never knows how much there is of him till he has confronted and braved bitter opposition.