Lessons to 
Train Youth 
Hheserlerleleeoioterieste eter: 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
fCopyright, 199, by the Character Devel- 
; opment league.] 
XVI.—Courage. 
tude consists 
in bearing 
manfully that 
which is painful or 
_ disagreeable, cour- 
age consists in not 
shrinking from the 
painful or unpleas- 
ant experiences 
which may be de- 
manded of us. For- 
titude will endure 
the amputation of 
a limb; courage 
will do that and 
Eaieo face the cannon’s mouth that 
eauses the injury that requires the 
amputation. 
The essence of courage is manliness 
‘and fortitude and belief in one’s 
strength and skill which nothing can 
dismay. The root of the word is the 
Latin cor, he 
The habit « 
education anu \. v 
overcomes his timidity, us u inedical 
student his faintness at the first sight 
of blood, as a child gradually learns to 
confess a fault. 
There are two forms of courage, 
physical and moral. Physical courage 
is the resolute facing of danger. 
Courage is bravery, but is not brava- 
_ 4o, which is recklessness or frequently 
- foolhardiness. A reckless man does 
mot see danger, the foolhardy man 
makes brag and show of doing, while 
the courageous man sees the danger 
and bravely faces it. “Courage is re- 
sistance to fear, mastery of fear—not 
absence of fear.” 
The lack of courage is cowardice, 
‘which has been held up to scorn from 
the beginning of the world. It implies 
a want of common sense, a want of 
belief in oneself. 
Moral courage is obeying one’s con- 
victions in the face of opposition and 
disapprobation; doing what the con- 
science says is right against the scorn 
and ridicule of associates; standing up 
for truth and righteousness against the 
whole world. Moral courage is bear- 
ing a taunt rather than to degrade 
oneself by some mean and unworthy 
action. This is the highest kind of 
courage. 
What is needed today is courage to 
‘be honest, courage to resist tempta- 
tion, courage to speak the truth, cour- 
age to be what we really are. courage 
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within .our 
means and not 
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upon the means 
of others. It 
takes courage 
to wear thread- 
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panions wear 
broadcloth © and 
silk. It takes 
courage to re- 
main in honest 
poverty .when 
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. 
- others grow rich by questionable meth- 
ods. It takes courage to say “No” 
squarely when others around you say 
“Yes.” It takes courage to be laughed 
at, scoffed, ridiculed, derided, misjudg- 
ed—to stand alone with all the world 
against you. 
To espouse an unpopular cause often 
requires more courage than to lead a 
charge in battle. But “mankind loves 
and-admires the man who dares to 
look the devil in the face and tell him 
he is a devil.” 
Although Admiral Farragut was a 
southerner and prayed “God forbid 
that I should ever raise my hand 
against the south,” yet when Virginia 
seceded Farragut remained faithful in 
his allegiance to the government. He 
was assigned the task of taking New 
Orleans, defended by forts which in 
1815 withstood the entire British fleet 
for nine days. With unexampled in- 
trepidity he pushed his fleet by the 
forts through a fire of shot and shell 
from 200 guns and destroyed the oppos- 
ing fleet and the forts. 
Practice.—Let everybody resolve to 
put fear out of his mind and let him 
say, “God is in his heaven.” When oc- 
easion comes for an act of bravery, 
as a- sudden fire, a child in danger, 
trust yourself and act quickly and with 
resolution. When it is an occasion for 
standing by what is right, treat it as 
you would a lie and scorn to belittle 
yourself by yielding. Say over and 
over, “No, no, no!’ 
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I beg you take courage; the brave 
soul can mend disaster.—Catherine II. 
Be our joys three parts pain! 
Strive and hold cheap the strain; 
Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never 
grudge the throe. 
—Robert Browning. 
True bravery is shown by perform- 
ing without witness what one might be 
capable of before all the world.—Roche- 
foucauld. 
The conscience of every man recog- 
nizes courage as the foundation of 
manliness, and manliness is the per- 
fection of human character—Thomas 
Hughes. 
They can conquer who believe they 
can. He has not learned the lesson of 
life who does not every day surmount 
a fear.—Emerson. 
The soul. secured in her existence. 
smiles at the drawn dagger and defies 
its point.--Addison. 
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