Christian Courage: The Cost of Righteousness

Be ye therefore very courageous. —On Christian courage: In your relation with fellow-creatures and intercourse with the world, it requires much courage and resolution to be sturdily upright and just. When your interest, your feelings, your wants, nay, even your future independence are on one side, and the plain dictates of duty and religion on the other, then it is that you must "be very courageous" and not turn aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left.…