enter Worms though there were as many devils
there as there are tiles upon the roofs of the houses." Another man
said to him: "Duke George will surely arrest you." He replied: "It is
my duty to go, and I will go, though it rain Duke Georges for nine days
together."

A Western paper recently invited the surviving Union and Confederate
officers to give an account of the bravest act observed by each during
the Civil War. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson said that at a
dinner at Beaufort, S. C., where wine flowed freely and ribald jests
were bandied, Dr. Miner, a slight, boyish fellow who did not drink, was
told that he could not go until he had drunk a toast, told a story, or
sung a song. He replied: "I cannot sing, but I will give a toast,
although I must drink it in water. It is 'Our Mothers.'" The men were
so affected and ashamed that they took him by the hand and thanked him
for displaying such admirable moral courage.

It takes courage for a young man to stand firmly erect while others are
bowing and fawning for praise and power. It takes courage to wear
threadbare clothes while your comrades dress in broadcloth. It takes
courage to remain in honest poverty when others grow rich by fraud. It
takes courage to say "No" squarely when those around you say "Yes." It
takes courage to do your duty in silence and obscurity while others
prosper and grow famous although neglecting sacred obligations. It
takes courage to unmask your true self, to show your blemishes to a
condemning world, and to pass for what you really are.

It takes courage and pluck to be outvoted, beaten, laughed at, scoffed,
ridiculed, derided, misunderstood, misjudged, to stand alone with all
the world against you, but

"They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three."

"An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him."

We live ridiculously for fear of being thought ridiculous.

"Tis he is the coward who proves false to his vows,
To his manhood, his honor, for a laugh or a sneer."

The youth who starts out by being afraid to speak what he thinks will
usually end by being afraid to think what he wishes.

How we shrink from an act of our own! We live as others live. Custom
or fashion, or your doctor or minister, dictates, and they in turn dare
not depart from their schools. Dress, living, servants, carriages,
everything must conform, or we are ostracized. Who dares conduct his
household or bus