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Subject: Heroism,
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Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
ITn'm'h5ir$r avonna nnrl Wpi.rfiplrf
street, on the above them, the Rev.
Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took
as his text, Daniel, 3:IS. He said:
The courage of these men was
sublime. Their heroism was remarkable.
The story of their strength
v of character is not an ordinary one.
They might easily have played the
king false by bowing down to his
idols while still serving their God in
their hearts. In all likelihood Nebuchadnezzar
would have been satisfied
had they simply bent the knee to his
gods. And how could a mere man,
even though he were a king, divine
the devotions of their inmost hearts?
Here was a place where most men
* would have considered discretion the
better part of valor. Here was a
chance for compromise in externals
for the sake of saving one's life.
Here was the supreme test of their
characters. They might have made
excuses for themselves to their own
minds and to God, and have worshiped
the golden image. They did
neither. They were true Jews. They
served the God of Israel, who had
said unto His people by the mouth
of Moses the deliverer and law-giver,
*Thou shalt not bow down unto them
nor serve them." Therefore, they
stood erect when the sound of "all
kinds of music" made the multitude
fall down. And standing, they are
monuments to moral heroism.
Heroism has great value in life and
is varied. Without it we could not
make much, if any progress. A man
may be as a prophet in his perception
and comprehension of divine
truth, hut if he lack heroism his powers
are largely unavailable to society.
Conviction needs courage to become
a living force. It is one thing to have
a vision, and another to declare it.
It is one thing to have knowledge,
and another to expound it. It is one
thing to have a valid and substantiated
opinion, and another to state it.
It is one thing to detect snam and sin,
and quite another to unmask them.
The world is full of men who could
do evil to the death in many a place
did they only dare. But it is so manifestly
one thing to know the truth
and another to stand up for it and to
proclaim it.
The value of heroism cannot be denied.
With it Moses faced the terrors
and the torments of the desert and
the threatenings of the wandering
people of God. With it Isaiah and
the prophets assailed mighty sin in
the name of Almighty God. With it
Columbus sailed the wide, uncharted
seas, ajad discovered America to a
ready world. With it Luther hurled
defiance to the machinations of Roman
ecclesiasticism and marked an
epoch in the majestic march of manhood
toward our present liberty of
tnougnt. witn it tne neroes or valley
Forge kept the faith for civil liberty
and under the impulse of its
spirit the slave was freed. Without
it Jesus would never have become our
Saviour.
Valuable as heroism is, it is not
less varied. For heroism is individt
ual and social, physical and 'moral,
- lustrous and humble.
The men of Lexington and Santiago,
of Trafalgar and of Waterloo,
the heroes of Hebrew history and of
the Crusades, the hosts who followed
Napoleon or Wellington or Washington
or Stonewall Jackson or any of
the famous captains of armies, ancient
or modern, are examples of
what we may term physical social
heroism. Many were the instances of
humble, individual moral courage displayed
by soldiers serving under all
these military geniuses. And yet, in
the last analysis, their heroism was
that of brute strength let loose and
dependent, as much as upon anything,
upon the flags, and the fanfare, and
the smell and sight of blood, and the
crowd, moving together to the battle
for its inspiration and its sustentation.
It is not my purpose to insinuate
thai even under these conditions
It is an easy thing to fare forth to
try conclusions with fate. But in
comparison with the pluck needed to
do many another deed it is easy.
'mere is, too, an maiviauaiisuc,
lustrous heroism which is even less
trying and exacting. He is a hero, I
care not who he may be, who will
lead a willihg army on to a fight
where victory is sure, or who will
point the way to a moral victory to
men who are with him and who sight
the same truth that he sees. For
many a man has lacked the heroism
to lead even though the skies were
full of portents of success. It is so
much easier to relinquish the responsibility
of leadership to another.
Officers are marked men.
We must admit a great measure
of physical heroism in the action of
the man who will test his strength
against the wild animal that would
take his life. It takes nerve as well
^as muscle to meet a bully who richly
needs and deserves a thrashing, and
make him eat the dust. But in the
category of heroic virtues these are
the least. j
At this time I would call your attention
to the heroisms which we
have and need in our daily life, the
heroisms of the humble, moral host
who constitute the mainstay of this
land and who are the backbone of
America, the men and women and
children who in an inconspicuous, but
none the less efficient, fashion, give
themselves as living sacrifices upon
the altar of devotion to God and home
and country. I would have you again
remember if you have been so ungracious
as to forget the offerings of
that countless host of simple, homely
people who daily live for the common
good and the public weal. I would
call to your attention the leaders of
our day who, in the face 01 sin and of
opposition and of militant and imperious
self-satisfaction, are effecting
the salvation of America and teaching
her people how to helrt themselves.
For we have much heroism of this
si:-:this ir.p.5. And we use* s?or?.?
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It is easy in a way to fall into line
and to march down to the war when
the summons comes and the music
plays and the people cheer and we
know that death will earn us deathless,
though perhaps not individual,
fame. But what is the courage of the
leader or the soldier in the front line
of the fierce fight to that of the toiler
who, day by day, works and plans and
slaves and lives that children may be
reared and prepared for life and the
home be kept intact? That father
yonder who, from sunrise to sunset,
day in and day out, in health and
sickness, when sad or glad, toils for
wife and family; is he not heroic?
That mother, with her cleanly brood
of six, the sole manager and dispenser
of a princely, gross salary of $10 a
week, up with, or before, the first
an cans ui. us eamc; i ua;,
only when all are sleeping, cooking,
washing, nursing, caring for them,
with smiles for each and tenderness
for all, staggering beneath a burden
more than man has dared to bear, i
who shall deny her praise? That j
widowed mother, with a flock and a \
pittance; that child who alone supports
a home; that maiden who is
pure and sweet upon wages that are
criminal before the living God, who
shall deny the sublimity of their
humble heroism?
To my mind the haroisra of the
plain people, who have little but who
serve so much, to whom life offers
such a meager portion-but who make
it go so far, is a most sublime, as it is
a most compelling, fact of human life.
I can conceive of nothing harder, day
by day, to arise to face the impenetrable
wall of hardship and of approximate
poverty which dominates the
horizon of so many lives. I can picture
nothing more unutterably unbearable
than, day by day, to be compelled
to undergo the refined slavery
that is unquestionably characteristic
of so much of our modern life. To
desire to live in the face of it, to decide
to struggle against it, to hope j
even against' hope, to live and to love, I
to get a little and to give a little, to
retain and to augment the diviner
characteristics that alone differentiate
humanity from the beast, to plan for
posterity and to have faith in God in
the midst of the relative riches that
constitute the poverty of our times,
is heroic. We should thank God for j
the heroism of those among us who j
have so little and who live so largely, |
in proportion as they, have capacity j
and opportunity, for the common
weal. We should thank God that
they are faithful, that they know
how to live simply, that they are
moral. For if ever the men and
women who are the burden-bearers
in the world's work become saturated
with the vices, the follies and the
fallacies concerning life that infest
the minds of those who constitute the
topmost and the nethermost strata of
society, the world will have short
shrift. J
Another sort of heroism that we
must never fail to remember and consider
and to which we owe much, is
that moral heroism among the political
and religious leaders of the country
that is incieasingly obvious and
actively at work. For that heroism is
real. The forces of unrighteousness
are intrenched. The army of greed at
any price is already in the field. The
plunderers of the public are as busy
as the vultures that prey upon the
dead. The camp followers who are
out for petty graft are busily at work.
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political and commercial piracy are at
the front. They are all* the more
dangerous because they have persuaded
thefhselves that they are sincere,
that the benefits they have undoubtedly
been instrumental in bringing
to society excuse and justify the
rapacity of which they have been and
to-day are guilty. They scorn government,
they laugh at law, they scoff
at the rising tide of popular disapproval.
Their special pleaders are
hired, their subsidized papers are
already bought, many of their books
are burnt. They invite the test and
even dare to threaten. In pulpit and
in pew, on the forum and in halls of
learning, wherever there is an itching
palm or a callous heart the^e their
champions may be found. It is needless
for me to expand the story by'
telling you of the governments, municipal
and state, that they may almost
be said to own, the legislatures
that they have bought or have tried
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bring them to account.
We are face to face with no theory.
We are confronted with the most unpalatable
facts, when everything is
considered, w:th which any nation
has ever had to deal. There is no use
in waiting for a declaration of hostilities.
The war is already on. The
enemy is in the field. Heroism
is required to go up against him
for "the sake of our cities and for the
people of our God." Heroism has already
been shown. It has already
cost some men dear.
The dictum is to pulpit and press,
to politician and statesman, to the
financial and the business world, to
labor and to capital, to the world at
large: We have erected our golden
image, it suit us, bow down or be consumed.
And woe betide the man with
the information and the heroism necessary
to refuse to bow. Men have refused.
They have been consumed.
The threat to-day is bow down or
be ruined. Touch us not lest the
country die. Forsooth we shall refrain
tct eradicate the vermiform appendix
of financial and commercial
and political indecency and disease
because of the shock to the patient.
Thank God we have men of heroism
at hand, men who have wisdom, who
have the hand and the nerve and the
experience and the wisdom to'disobey
our modern Nebuchadnezzars and to
operate. And they will not be burnt.
Their heroism will not spell their
death. It will not invite disaster. It
will save the patient from uglier ills
and worse torments.
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called is the sort that has made
America a power. The heroism that
remains steadfast and faithful in the
face of regnant wrong is the heroism
that illuminates her history. She has
much of it. She needs more of it.
It should be rewarded. It should
"have our support. We should have it.
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