Young Men Who Overcame

ISBN: 9781331565963 出版年：2016 页码：230 Robert E Speer Forgotten Books

This little volume is made up of sketches of the lives of fifteen real men, men who loved the highest and who made duty the first thing in their lives. They were all of them lovers of Christ, and fit as any men on the earth ever are to join that company of whom we are told that they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. And in their mouth was found no lie and they are without blemish Yet the unblemished per fection is not claimed for them. In their whole someness of nature they would have resented the suggestion with derision. They were of the Christian type which despises unreality and is acknowledged to represent the noblest ideal of a man. There are scores of living men as winning and fearless and pure and true, but only those who were all this and have passed on are eligible for use in such a little book as this, and I have ventured to use them as a challenge and contra.