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BOLDNESS
There is a splendid kind of boldness.
One day, years ago, sometime after the death of Jesus, two of His disciples, Peter and John, were arrested and brought before their bitter enemies who were ready and able to kill them. And Peter, the noble soul, stood up without a pang of fear and just told them face to face what he thought; and then the New Testament story says: "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John they marvelled."
It is a fine thing to see men and women and girls and boys who are not afraid to do and stand for the right.
Listen to this story which I will give you just as I got it:
He was small for his age, worked in a signal box, and booked the trains. One day the men were chaffing him about being so small. One of them said:
"You will never amount to much. You will never be able to pull these levers; you are too small."
The little fellow looked at them.
"Well," said he, "as small as I am, I can do something which none of you can do."