In the city all depends on courage. This young man espied a few weak
places in the enemy's lines. He attacked with vigor. In the charge on
the theatre he met the enemy in force and was thrown back with heavy
loss, but in all the other onsets the enemy had no force to withstand
him. One quality which the young man had in a large measure was the fear
of failure. "The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were
stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul its fear subdues, and
bravely dares the danger Nature shrinks from." There is a quality much
akin to moral courage, which, however, is not present very noticeably in
the strongest natures, but which is
THE ANCHOR TO MANY LIVES.
I will present it in the following pages. But let me assure you that if
you have the truest courage--the kind that this young man had--you will
not need the quality which I will next take up. Hope rides in a
palace-car, along the railroad, and over the tremendous bridges which
Courage has constructed.
[Illustration]
HOPE.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers the way:
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
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