Saturday
Dec042010
The Book of Martyrs
Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 07:40AM Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The faithful witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And celestial women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
Emily Dickinson
Reader Comments (1)
Good reminder that we (most of us, anyway) don't know what it really means to suffer for the cause of Christ. Thank you for sharing this, Kim!